Novembre 18, 2005
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The
only people buying this Bush/Cheney tent show are the never-say-die
entrenched Republicans and those suffering from Alzheimer’s. What a
charade, the both of them feigning indignity and charging that the Iraq
War critics are irresponsible and unpatriotic for questioning their
claims that the 'Neo Con’ Bush gang was only honestly mistaken when
they spoon fed bogus prewar intelligence to Congress and the American
people. In truth, it is irresponsible and unpatriotic to not question
these men who are benefiting by this war and who have not convincingly
proven a need for this war, which has cost the lives of two thousand
and counting of our bravest men and women as well as the maiming of
tens of thousand more.
Actually, the Brits ratted on them with
the Downing Street 'smoking gun’ memo. The memo came from a meeting of
Tony Blair’s top officials discussing by which excuse could Iraq be
'legally’ attacked. Two of them reported on what they were told during
their recent talks with Bush’s high officials in Washington. "The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." And, the policy was to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by claims of terrorism and WMD’s.
Also,
the way Bush handled the U.N. weapons inspectors was very telling. If
Bush was honestly seeking real intelligence with which he could
determine if Saddam actually held weapons of mass destruction and was
truly a threat, why did he cut short the U.N. weapon inspectors’ search
for WMD’s and not wait for their final report to come out before making
a preemptive strike against Iraq? The reason why is that the inspectors
had found none to date, and Bush knew their final report would deny the
existence of any WMD’s in Iraq. So he had to stop it from ever coming
to fruition because he couldn’t "fix it around his policy" as he did
with all his manufactured 'intelligence’. And, with the U.N. inspectors
report inconsistent with 'his policy’, all his bogus 'intelligence’
would have become suspect and he would have had a hard time selling his
war.
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