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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (798)	2/7/2004 10:08:43 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 173976

>>>For the Madrid daily, El Pais (in Spanish), the two investigations will mainly serve "as a shield to protect Bush and Blair, for they won’t discover the political reasons for invading Iraq. Moreover, their findings, whose independence stands in doubt, will not be issued in the case of Washington until after the elections in November."<<< Seems to me that if neither the US or Britian are willing to substantively self-critique themselves their mistake of erroneously moving into preemptive war than it'll be up to independent panels or commissions of historians to guage the political aspect of the investigation. I'm certain that by the time the two administration top-heavy commissions finish their work that every single public word uttered by members of both administrations will be scrutinized. Will the US and British administrations' commissions match up? I doubt it!

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (798)	2/7/2004 10:37:41 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 173976

>>> The editors of the Hindustan Times in India, say that Bush and Blair "may still try to change the argument by saying that, whether there were WMD or not, the world is a safer place with Mr. Hussein behind bars. But such ploys will not dilute the main charge against them — that they launched a pre-emptive strike on the basis of wrong information."<<< One could also argue that the world would be a safer place were these wiseguys featured below, like Saddam, taken out: glasgowcrew.tripod.com Added together, these wiseguys probably harmed and persecuted as many people as did Saddam--dictators allied and among them. Is it ironic that so many of the above referenced wiseguys got to live long lives and managed to do business with prominent citizens far and wide? And like the mobsters highlighted above, the US under Bush now stands as protectorate over the Iraqi Oil Ministry Building, the only government building protected by the US after the war, even though citizens records were desperately needed in order to supposedly form a democracy. I guess we can call the action of Bush a racket of a different kind!