Kindred_Spirit
His ORIGINAL CAUSE of WMD was just a cover up for Bin Ladin, so Americans would forget him, and move on to something bigger, better, and more profitable for the FAT CATS up there.... Sad that so many buy into his lies without batting an eye, or even questioning it, ...
HEY, 9/11 devastated this country, millions of tears flowed for a very long time over that day... and Bin Ladin took responsibility... we went after him, for a couple months... THEN, we shifted gears, and everyone has been acclimated to FORGET him and his crew!!!!
Saddam is dead... As horrible a person that he was, his country and his CULTURE and the CULTURE of his country actually know NO OTHER LIFE... and we will never be able to change that.
Leaving Bin Ladin alone, and moving directions opened a can of worms that no one knew just how many worms were in the bottom... it is a bottomless pit of worms, and we can never get them all... because we do not KNOW who they are...
I would change my respect factors IF Bush changed the COURSES back to getting Bin Ladin once again, and leaving Iraq to their new found democracy.... THAT is what we need to do, before we loose one more Soldier to that mess over there...
BIN LADIN... anyone remember him?? Does anyone remember back when we were NOT in war, and we felt safe???? Well, I hope that EVERYONE remembers that Bin Ladin is still out there, and there is NO telling how many "sleeper cells" he has sitting right here in the USA..
Things are just WAY out of hand, and I don't think Bush or Cheney has a clue on even HOW to fix it.
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His original cause was always to invade Iraq for the oil. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil wrote that from day one Bush was looking for ways to invade Iraq. Richard Clarke wrote the same thing. The PNAC had written about "asserting" America's military might in the region to control the oil to secure energy supplies. Bin Laden gave him the excuse he was looking for. Had Saddam privatize his oil and allowed the US to establish bases in Iraq he would still be in power today.
The American people look to their media for information and they were lied to by their government and media. It's the media's job to not only report the news but analyze it.
Main stream media never questioned Bush but acted like cheerleaders for the invasion. They even changed reasons without batting an eye every time Bush changed the reasons. They have never held him accountable either.
The progressive press did question and put forth great analyses on why Bush was wrong. I have followed the news for 35 years and I knew they were lying. Iraq was a crippled country under the sanctions and there were a number of Mideast experts and journalists like Scott Ritter, Hans Blix, Noam Chomsky, Tarqi Ali who were doubting this story. They all said let inspections continue but Bush Knew there were no WMD and invaded. It's about controlling the oil and the latest bill in the Iraq is to privatize the oil to US oil companies. It's what it's all about and the media never tells you. They keep us distracted with nonsense and lies. They are just huge corporations themselves.
The media downplayed the Downing Street Memo, notes from a meeting of British inteligence in which they state "The facts are being fixed for the policy."
They now down play impeachment of Bush and the people follow.
Excerpt:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=7799 by Greg Palast May 05, 2005
"A conspiracy to commit serial fraud is, under federal law, racketeering. However, the Mob's schemes never cost so many lives.
"Here's more. "Bush had made up his mind to take military action. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."
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