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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: mistermj who wrote (214567)1/25/2007 10:34:16 AM
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The threat was a complete lie. We did NOT invade Iraq because Saddam was a threat. There was NO THREAT. There was instead an ideological rationale for war -- but of course you can't go to Congress and say "on ideological grounds we are going to invade another country". So every effort had to be made to make it appear there was a threat -- this is outright deception. Pure unadulterated deception. At best you can argue that Bush was not let in on the plan that Cheney crafted, and lacked the competence to understand what he was doing. We might never know where incompetence ended and the lying began. What is almost certain is that Bush lacked the capacity to create the lie -- he simply became the hand puppet of the lie. But make no mistake -- the lie of the "Iraqi threat" paved the way for the worst set of decisions we have seen in the US. It cost us the war on terror and we are never likely to fully recover from this tragic deception.
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