The man, Jacob Hornberger on Leave Iraq Alone:
Despite the fact that he is amassing an impressive display of military armament in the areas near Iraq, President Bush says that he still hasn’t made up his mind on whether to order an invasion of Iraq. That would imply that despite the array of intelligence and information that the president has in his possession, none of it so far has been sufficiently convincing for him to make up his mind.
Of course, there’s always another possibility: that the president isn’t telling the truth and that he secretly made the decision to invade Iraq long ago. But wouldn’t that mean that he has been deliberately deceiving the American people and the rest of world, even while reminding everyone that Saddam Hussein is a liar?
Of course, Bush has already made up his mind to overturn the only secular government in the Middle East. After the obvious war that will occur in the near future and our fifty year (or so) occupation, we can start the process all over again by seeding the aggressions between Iraq and their neighbor Iran. Then our great-great-great grandchildren will be left to fix our dirty little mess. Let's hope they possess the wisdom to see our errors and the foresight to avoid them.
Sorry, my pessimist hat is on today.
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This entry also posted at Stand Down.
great article.
favorite excerpt:
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Among the many possible justifications the president has presented for invading Iraq is that Saddam Hussein intends to use weapons of mass destruction on the United States in the immediate future because he hates America for its “freedom and values.” That appears to be the most popularly accepted reason among the American masses and the mainstream press for supporting an invasion of Iraq. As a result of constant exhortations from administration officials after U.S. forces failed to capture Osama bin Laden, the fear that everyone had for bin Laden was transferred to Saddam. If Saddam is coming to get us, the argument goes, better that we get him first, even if that entails killing thousands of Iraqi people in the process.
But the president’s claim flies in the face of all the evidence, including that provided by both the president and his father, George H.W. Bush, who served as vice president from 1981 to 1989 and as president from 1989 to 1993.
As the mainstream media is now reporting, the Reagan-Bush regime delivered biological and chemical weapons and nuclear components to Saddam during the 1980s, including anthrax — yes, anthrax!
Ask yourself: Would Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush really have delivered such weapons to a person who hated America for its “freedom and values” and who intended to employ them against the United States? Not very likely. Neither Reagan nor Bush was that kind of person. Could they both simply have made an honest mistake of judgment with respect to Saddam’s character? Again, how likely is that, especially given the fact that the elder Bush had previously served as head of the CIA?
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Posted by Wah on January 7, 2003 12:21 AM