What foreign policy? You think the US has an effective foreign policy? We've got a general in charge of the state department.
There is every good reason not to do this war. The US or the Brits have yet to argue a case for weapons of mass destruction, the Iraqis and neighboring nations have not asked to be liberated and there is scant chance of installing democracies in that region of the world, especially since the US is relying on nearby dictators to prosecute the war and condeming and declaring 'the enemy' those democracies whose people have compelled their leaders to oppose this war.
Add to the above you'll find fabricated and falsified documents, plagerized intelligence reports, deletions of convenience of very significant intelligence material, an insistance that what's been proven as not so is so and the fundamental fact that neither US nor British intelligence has been able to direct the UN weapons inspectors to a single meaningful site to find WDM.
But, meanwhile, we're told our crack military units are geared to swiftly move into the country in order to shore up the oil wells and go to the areas where WMD are kept and neutralize those sites. How are the US or British forces going to do this, and why should they do this given: a) no war means no destroyed oil fields; and, b) if those WDM sites have been identifed for the 101st or 82nd Airborne units, why haven't they been identified for the UN weapons inspectors.
And what began this whole thing? "Saddam kicked out the weapons inspectors," uttered from the lips of George Bush over and over and over. Chief UN weapons inspector Richard Butler, at the urging of former president Clinton and without consulting the UN Security Council, pull those inspectors before Clinton initiated a bombing campaign.
So, Steeny, we've seen nothing but lies. And those lies, fabrications and misrepresentations were used to force Congress into passing the pre-congressioal election Preemption Resolution for this war, primarily relying on the nuclear fear issue which today no longer exists with respect to Iraq.
Bush is a fraud, this war is a fraud upon the people of the world. |
