If someone knows what the course is in Iraq, please let me know.
In a couple days, President Bush will likely begin his cross-country damage control tour to beg again for more support for the war in Iraq. It will be the same old tune. Stay the course, patience, sacrifice, freedom and democracy, 9/11.
With his political capital spent and with the fourth remembrance of 9/11 approaching, Bush and his propaganda machine will again stay the course and step up efforts trying to link Iraq to 9/11. This is may be the sorriest excuse for the war in Iraq that I have seen. I’m amazed by the people that still believe Iraq had something to do with 9/11. If we are to invade a country on such arbitrary terms of supposed association with those responsible for 9/11 then the Bush doctrine would have to be applied to about 15 countries already.
Over the next couple of weeks the Bush administration will routinely remind the American people that because of 9/11 we must continue the struggle in Iraq. The American public now realizes that the war in Iraq was not brought to our shores on September 11, 2001, despite Bush’s efforts to suggest otherwise. But now, because of Bush’s insistence to invade Iraq, we have no other choice but to stay and at the very least turn Iraq into some sort of working democracy. It’s not going to be perfect. It won’t even be pretty. But we do have to finish the job that Bush has chosen to bring to this country. To cut and run would be totally devastating and would result in a threepeat of Iraq.
Conclusions of the 9/11 Report concerning Iraq
P 66: No "collaborative operational relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda.
P 559: "No credible evidence" supporting Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's theory that Iraq was involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
P 61: Osama Bin Ladin sponsors anti-Saddam Islamists in Iraq.
P 468: CIA memoranda linking Bin Ladin and Iraqi intelligence chief discredited.
P 228: Allegation that Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence officer: "No evidence has been found that Atta was in the Czech Republic in April 2001."
P 161: Mohamad Atta sees Saddam Hussein as "an American stooge set up to give Washington an excuse to intervene in the Middle East."
P 470: Alleged ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq recanted.
(For more of what the 9/11 Report actually says here is an online bookmarked copy.)
Bush in 1999
“One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it…If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency.” George W. Bush to Houston Chronicle journalist Mickey Herskowitz in 1999 when talking about what he would do as president.
Looks like he got his chance to invade.
8.29.2005
Staying the Course
Posted by Chris at 11:38 AM
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Today during my history class we were asked about the war in Iraq or someone brought it up I don't remember but I was surprised how many people argued that Iraq was behind 9/11 and had a nuke. I am amazed how many people believe what they are told by the government and some even got somewhat angry when the history teacher told them not to believe everything you hear.
Yeah Jake I'm pretty amazed at it all too. But I do think the truth is gaining ground, even though Bush tries and will try to relate the two extensively during the next two weeks. It will be a huge mistake on the part of Bush.
Honestly I am so tired of it all and I am especially tired of how stupid people are. I don't usually like to call people stupid but people are stupid and that is a fact. I am tired of Bush and his never-ending mal- justification.
How can he sleep at night is what I would like to know.
To make a comment on Jake's comment. I have to say that I experience a whole lot of ignorance on both sides of the fence.
And I read this quote from Rummy, and really liked it, basically that we have to know what our ignorance is. (I think I was one of the only people who understood what he was saying, and didn't think he was a rambling idiot.)
A lot of people don't realize what their ignorances are. The have one side of the story, and will completely discount the existence of another side.
I mean, I was watching an interview with Cindy Sheehan about the invasion of Afghanistan (not Iraq) and she said she was against that too, because "a lot of innocent people were killed"...well, honey, then according to you, WWII shouldn't have been fought either.
I haven't had much experience with conservative views in the classroom, because I have been mostly in liberal atmospheres...I would be the dummy raising my hand in Jake's class trying to point out some connection refuted by the majority, and the rest of the class would also look at me like I was some stupid idiot and be gleeful that the teacher put me in my place.
I had a course here at the university about the "Culture Wars" at US univessities in the 80s and 90s. And the professor gave us arguments written by both sides of the lines...and then we were to discuss the points. And I raised my hand one day and said: that the arguments for the conservatives side were stupid..and the prof nodded in agreement. And then I asked: why didn't you give us any texts to read that were written by saner representatives of the right and named a few? He had basically given us texts by the Pat Robertsons of the educational community instead of some solid arguments.
I dropped that class a week later...but some people probably still remember me as that idiot backward twit.
And yeah, the government and its intelligence agencies aren't always reliable sources...they should be. But they aren't.
CaliValleyGirl,
I agree there is ignorance on all sides. I am a libertarian so I don't necessarly define my self as democrat or republican but even on the libertarian side I sometimes see ignorance.
I like to debate people and I have been called a few names but I have also got a lot of people to agree with me on issues such as ending the drug war and the national debt but someone even told my friend not to worry about such issues because the government would take care of it.
My history teacher lets us argue and debate about the issues and gives us fair points to back up both sides but some people even call me a liar for saying we funded Saddam in the 80's.
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