> > > The following quote from the online WSJ summerizes my thinking, but > > I am open to changing it. > > > > "This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were > > orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda," Bush said. "We did say > > there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda."
Linking Saddam and 9/11 was unquestionably a piece of the rationale for the invasion, as any study of the history will show. There was a list of reasons sold to people for the invasion, and there was the truth; two completely different lists. Blaming "intelligence failures" is the same as calling us stupid, for only a moron would believe our vast intelligence system could be so completely wrong. The neocons (the prime movers behind the invasion; none of this was Bush's own thinking, he's not capable) pulled it off because they wanted to help secure Israel and found willing bedfellows in the MI complex and Big Oil who were in it for the money and power. The thinking and the arguments, to this day, were put together by followers of Leo Strauss, who constructed neocon philosophy and tutored Paul Wolfowitz, among others, who in turn convinced Bush and have led him around by the nose since. The role of Big Media (a handful of rabid pro-Israel supporters at the top of the media food chain) was to sell this package of deceit to the public, and they've been doing that all along. The neocons invaded the ME to seize authority in that part of the world, plain and simple. Experienced, wiser people in gov't at the time, who knew better, were systematically overruled or ousted. Now that the Iraq (and Afghanistan) invasions are proving to be failures, they are faced with the choice of accepting defeat or escalating. The most likely course of action, I believe, is that they will escalate, likely with an attack on Iran, but they could surprise us with an attack elsewhere. Nothing would serve their agenda better than another attack here, and perhaps waiting for another attack is the reason for their delay in escalating. Regardless of how they achieve escalation, nukes are almost certain to become involved because we simply don't have the troop strength to go in on the ground. To fully appreciate the plight of our position it's necessary to understand the depth of their commitment to their cause (Israel, money and power), which is absolute. The fact that we're a Christian majority country has been dealt with by a long term media campaign to undermine priests (a bunch of child molesters), "fact-revealing docu-dramas" designed to undermine the history of the belief system, and pumping of fringe radicals (Farwell et al). The Pope of the Catholic Church has been against the invasion all along, but hardly a single American knows that because what he says isn't newsworthy. This whole thing has all been argued here, ad nauseum, because there are a few people on this list who are attached to neocon thinking and will argue their case of lies and distortions long after Hell freezes over - and America is in shambles. Last night Ted Koppel had this big three hour show on how far we should go to achieve security. Not once during the entire show was a single word spoken about the root causes for WHY we face the security problems we do, as if they don't matter - when in fact those reasons (American policies in the ME) were the root cause and must be acknowledged to achieve a solution. Bill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
