- Would someone please ask George Bush what he is talking
about when he says America won't "cut and run" and U.S. troops
must remain in Iraq until they achieve victory? "Cut and run"
from what - a mistake? The only way the Untied States could possibly secure
a victory would be to discover the weapons that never were there in the
first place.
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- After occupying the country for more than two and a half
years without turning up any of Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass
destruction, the Bush Administration has finally admitted that pre-war
intelligence about Iraq was dead wrong. Claims made before the war that
Hussein was aiding al Qaida have also proven to be false. (If anything,
he was trying to rid his country of radical fundamentalists who threatened
his authority.) Nevertheless, the pretence used to sell Congress and the
American people on this war was the threat that Hussein had nuclear weapons
and was prepared to use them on the United States or provide them to terrorists
who would. Remember all those mushroom clouds?
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- There are serious questions about why they believed this
phony intelligence when all other signs indicated it was false. A rigorous
search by UN weapons inspectors was unable to locate any such weapons and
international watchdog organizations as well as other countries' intelligence
agencies had determined there were no such weapons or terrorist alliances.
But that was what they ignored then. Let's concentrate on what is being
ignored now.
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- The corpse that everyone at this wake has been ignoring
is that this war was not a mistake. You would expect anyone who made such
a horrific blunder to be doing his best to correct, not compound it. But
nobody appears eager to correct this "mistake." Instead, the
administration's latest reason for continuing to occupy the country is
that the U.S. can't leave until Iraq can provide its own security. But
if the United States really wanted to stabilize the country, it would accede
to the wishes of all factions in Iraq and get the hell out!
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- So the only conclusion any sane and rational person can
reach is that this war is not about weapons of mass destruction, establishing
democracies, or assuring security. It is about inflaming and destabilizing
the region to the extent that it provides justification to eradicate as
many of its inhabitants as possible. It's an objective best articulated
perhaps by the criminally insane radio talk show call-ins who want to "wipe
every damned Arab off the face of the earth!"
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- This is no different than the extermination of other
racial, political and cultural groups carried out by other world tyrants.
It's called genocide. Everyone who is not American must be wondering if
they are going to be next.
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- The majority of those in Congress - Republicans and Democrats,
alike - know what's going on and condone it, if only because wars are such
lucrative ventures. The only reason they are finally piping up is that
they can no longer justify supporting a war based on such flimsy excuses.
They want Bush to provide them with a better one from his seemingly inexhaustible
supply of phony pretexts. Because Congress and the President and their
pals in Great Britain and Halliburton share the same agenda. They hate
Arabs, need gasoline and like making money. The Iraq War is the genie that
granted them all three wishes.
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- http://ragemaker.com/stories/2005/no_mistake.htm
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