The Bastards Finally Admit that WMAs Do Not Exist in Iraq
1/12/2005
WASHINGTON (AP) The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly
concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited
as justification for going to war, the White House said Wednesday
It was an obvious goose chase from the very beginning, designed to distract the 'masses' while the corporate-loving neocon republicans hijacked the US military to lay waste to an entire country. The US takes the blame/credit and is forced to 'rebuild,' thus creating a money machine to end all money machines. "Fighting terrorists on foreign soil," my ass.
Who benefits? Large private corporations, investors, the Bush family bank accounts (I mean, really, if the country you are leading only pays you $400,000 a year, but Saudi oil companies are paying you millions, where are your loyalties going to shift?). All this while us lower-middle class people suffer from job loss, inflation, and devalued, meager wages.
The Iraq Survey Group, made up of some 1,200 military and intelligence
specialists and support staff, spent nearly two years searching military
installations, factories and laboratories whose equipment and products might be
converted quickly to making weapons.
And before that, weapons inspectors. It's hard to believe that it took 1,200 people to confirm what we already knew from the beginning. And truly, honestly, regardless of whether they had WMDs, it was never a reason to go to war as long as we ourselves have them. As long as Brazil, and Russia, and North Korea and dozens of other countries have them.
''If they have any reports of (weapons of mass destruction) obviously they'll
continue to follow up on those reports,'' McClellan said. ''A lot of their
mission is focused elsewhere now.''
Like in trying to find an exit strategy that won't make us look even stupider to the rest of the world? Or in finding the next country to invade? What is our mission now that the primary reason for being there in the first place has been completely dissolved? I'm sure we'd all like to know.
Chief U.S. weapons hunter Charles Duelfer is to deliver his final report on the
search next month. ''It's not going to fundamentally alter the findings of his
earlier report,'' McClellan said, referring to preliminary findings from last September. Duelfer reported then that Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either. Bush unapologetically defended his decision to invade Iraq.
This Administration is less than a joke. Plain and simple. This report is proof of that.
Bush has appointed a panel to investigate why the intelligence about Iraq's
weapons was wrong.
Why don't we have an independent panel not appointed by the primary suspect in this fiasco? In criminal trials, you never allow the suspect to pick and choose the investigators. So why does Bush get to?
I can tell you why the intelligence was wrong: your good buddy Dick Cheney, yourself and several colleagues hyped up the evidence, using your religion (either consciously or not) to perpetuate and justify your fear of other cultures. The ideology that you push onto the world, 'letting freedom reign,' is being shoved down people's throats that don't want to listen. Whether you are right or wrong, not everyone shares your opinions, and bombing people into submission over a political and religious ideology is not the American Way. If you, Mr. Bush, wish to promote liberty, freedom and justice, you need to do some soul-searching and make an example of yourself. What would Jesus do?
Instead, you allow simple-mindedness, ego, pride, greed and fear get in the way of whatever intelligence you actually possess. And if there is a Great God in Heaven Above, he's probably not very pleased with you.
posted by Edward Svengali @ Wednesday, January 12, 2005,
