python416 said:
Just as Han Blix said before the war, "it is hard to see how you can be 100% sure that they have WMD, and still not know where they are".
I agree! Recall that Bush was unwilling to allow the UN Inspectors to complete their work, citing "imminent" threat that could not wait until the process was complete.
python416 said:
Cheney said he was sure, but there wasn't. He lied right there, and that is only 1 of many.
How about Colin Powell's speech to the UN in Feb. 2003? He even used pictures to show where the WMDs were, the bullshit mobil factories etc. I watched that speech that day and he convinced me that there were WMDs in Iraq. I took what he said as fact. Why wouldn't I? Of all the Bushies he was the most creditable to me, not a Neocon, he was a guy to trust.
Sadly, it turns out that he was in on the fix. You're right about the manipulation of the facts. What Bush did was promote heavily the intelligence that stated there were WMDs, Nukes etc. and completely ignored the intelligence that said there weren't any. He and his evil henchmen only spoke to their side of the argument, over and over again.
I also love when Bush mentions the Democrats who voted for the war. It is fact that they did not have access to the same intelligence that Bush had AND, just as importantly, Bush had stirred up so much anti-Iraq sentiment that to many Democrats a vote against the war was made to out to be unpatriotic, and would have been very hard, at the time, to explain to their constituients. Basically, IMHO, Bush intimidated many Dems into voting for the war.
This was done by hiding the intelligence that questioned all of the points that Bush was selling. What we got was propaganda to the nth degree. Let's remember that according to Richard Clark, Bush's National Security Adviser the day after 9-11, Bush asked Clark to make a case for the invastion of Iraq!
I also agree with you that Bush / Bush's Brain cleverly mixed Iraq into most conversations about 9-11. It reminds me of the lies that Reagan use to tell, over and over and over again, so often that eventually the public starts to believe it as fact. Since more than 70% of Americans at the start of the war thought that Saddam was tied into 9-11 how can anyone suggest that Bush wasn't the one making that case?
Even for the 2004 Presidential election a majority of people who voted for Bush believed we found WMDs in Iraq! Americans are not that stupid. They were used through propaganda by Bush and his Brain.
Even this week Bush in his speech refuses to alter his bullshit claims. He's still manipulating the public. He still refuses to take any ownership for his own decisions. Instead of standing up and saying I made these decisions and stand by them he chose to try to convince people that Democrats were involved in the decision making too!
Bush is in charge of all US foreign policy. He made all the decisions, right and wrong. He's such a fuc%ing addict from his alcoholic days that he still cannot admit when he's wrong, he has way too much foolish pride to allow himself the humility to admit he erred, just like raging alcoholics do.
Some people admire Bush for his loyalty, cite it over and over again as one of his strengths. I look at it a bit differently. His damn pride = his damn loyalty, to a fault, to the point that he will not alter a failing strategy because his pride won't allow it.
We've got a damn addict running our country, and he needs a 12 Step program really badly because he is unable to turn his will and his life over to his higher power. Ironic, isn't it?
