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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (164593)6/22/2005 3:44:46 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Bush had already decided to go to war even before he got into office. It was just a matter of finding an excuse to go to war. That was obvious during the first NS meeting 8 months before 911.

What's bubbling to the top are a couple of things:

1. Bush et al didn't plan for the aftermath even though they had plenty of people telling them what would likely occur and what they needed to do about it.

2. Bush et al ignored the career military in favor of their own petri dish experiment using real live people as test subjects for a high tech military. Just for that Rumsfeld and his Pentagon weannies should spend the rest of their lives cleaning Saddam's cell.

3. Bush et al actually thought Iraq was EASY. It was a small, weak country that they could knock over easily, use as a giant gas station and military base and cement Bush's reputation as a 'great' leader for the next campaign. In fact, it was seen as so EASY that it might be knocked off even before Afghanistan.

4. All of the above make Bush et al's yammering and whining about WMDs and Imminent Threat AN ABSOLUTE LIE. Iraq had to be one of two things:

A. Weak country that was EASY to knock off.
B. Imminent threat with nuclear WMDs.

Why the press can't draw this conclusion is beyond me.
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