Now here is an area where Bush probably sincerely does feel like he got bad intelligence: Bush thought--with or without WMD, with or without Al Qaeda proof--what would completely overwhelm either of these issues would be the constantly flashing news images of happy Iraqis dancing in the streets, singing praise to the Bush name. But this didn't happen--did it?
So now Bush is stuck with the fraudulent actions he and his staff used to build up the war--and do note every time Bush's support for the war fell to near the 50 percent mark, the public got fed a new dose, whether a fearful news feed relative to mobile labs, drones, tubes, yellow cake; a good hopeful news feed like a description of a key death or capture, ironically usually of someone already claimed dead [Saddam himself, Chemical Ali, Khahlid Shied Mohammed(sp?)].
This was a war waged more by public relations than by sincerity of intent. If the sincere intent was to establish a democracy (still a wrong reason for war!), then the Iraqi government buildings containing the records of the Iraqi people would have been preserved; the museums would have been preserved. Instead, the only government building Bush protected was the Iraqi Oil Ministry Building. I mean isn't at least a small hint at something!?!
I swear, were someone able to do a chart showing the scariest news feeds compared against Bush's decline in popular support for the war, the lies, distortions, omissions and perversions of truth would compare and parallel. |
