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To: elmatador who wrote (53020)	8/2/2009 11:05:25 AM
From: Metacomet	4 Recommendations Respond to of 217739

They just should take Saddam and send him with his family somewhere.. But elmat, you totally miss the point of the Iraq War. It had nothing to do with Iraq. The American incumbents were just hitting stride in the most massive concentration of wealth into the hands of the elites in the history of mankind. How could this wonderful process continue, unabated, if the idiots in charge of the "reverse Robin Hood" were to be voted out of office by say, someone who could read? A very thorny problem, to be sure. So, as every student of US history knows, America never changes presidents during a war. All we needed to do was make one up. Kill some foreigners, and a few American troops...but the Goldman Sachs and cohorts could continue robbing everybody in sight while the Bush government continued staring at its naval, and fighting the "WOT" tm. Had nothing at all to do with Iraq. Just a nice safe place to have a war. "That September the attempt to sell the war began in earnest, for, as White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card had told The New York Times in an unusually candid moment, "You don't roll out a new product in August." At the heart of the sales campaign was the United Nations. Thanks in substantial part to Blair's prodding, George W. Bush would come before the UN General Assembly on September 12 and, after denouncing the Iraqi regime, announce that "we will work with the UN Security Council for the necessary resolutions." The main phase of public diplomacy—giving the war a "political context," in Blair's phrase—had begun. Though "the UN route" would be styled as an attempt to avoid war, its essence, as the Downing Street memo makes clear, was a strategy to make the war possible, partly by making it politically palatable." nybooks.com