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So Tell Me Again, Why Are We In Iraq?

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 22 August 2006
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Bush says Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 08/22/06 — Despite White House efforts to expunge his clear and unambiguous statement from transcripts, I think enough people actually heard George W. Bush say, during yesterday’s Press Conference, that Iraq had "Nothing" to do with 9/11-to qualify the assertion that the text had been removed from the ’official transcript’, because of ’hecklers’, as ridiculous, if not criminal.

At long last, the president has given us the information needed to demonstrate that he lied to Congress, both in his attempts to get a Resolution "To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq" and later in his written justification to Congress following the start of his illegal war.

Bush would have us believe that no one in his administration ever “suggested” that Iraq and 9/11 were linked, but we all heard Dick Cheney and we all heard Bush and we all know they’re lying, have been lying and cannot stop their lying.

So to recap...there were no WMDs, no links to 9/11 and no terrorists in Iraq until the U.S. military got there.

If only we, The People, were represented in Congress by public servants instead of self-serving apologists for a criminal administration.

– http://www.officialwire.com/main.ph...

Forum posts

  • By now, enough people have caught on to the fact that Bush-Cheney are inveterate liars, and could not speak the truth, even if their pants were on fire, to discredit them forever. We have absolutely no confidence in Bush, rather his has shown incompetence, laziness, petulance, and has demonstrated that his disdain for the Constitution is above all man-made law. It is time to remove the abominable neocons from power. The cowardly war-hawks should be jailed for war crimes. Certainly Bush should be impeached.

  • Click here for the video of Bush’s statements:
    CrooksandLiars.com

    This should be manadatory viewing for all men and women in uniform.

  • Agreed. But I think the readers and posters here have a distorted view of the American Street.

    The American Street is still very pro-killing, that is pro-Iraq war, pro-war. Period.

    Readers/posters to opposition websites do not interact much with others, or to put it another way, we mostly interact with others like us. Our viewpoint is distorted. And when we do talk to others we think they are aware of the same data points what we have seen and project our thinking on to them. This, in turn, gives us an inaccurate picture of the American Street’s thinking.

    We should open our sights and mind to the fact that greater percentage of the American Street gets their "news" from the liks of Fox News and that there is no chance that small sites like this one and others can even begin to alert the American Street, let alone instill a sense of loss, or morality, or present alternative solutions to them.

    The most influnce that we have ends at the tip of our noses.

    • While I have to agree with you, do you think that if the truth were laid out to the American public - without giving it away to the rest of the world, even though they know it already (bear with me) - that their relative well being requires all of the aggression, etc., that they wouldn’t go along with it? I know that this incredible standard of living has been eroding, but it is still a fact that as a nation, the United States -5% of the world population - consumes 25% of its resources. I don’t know if the American character would be strong enough to resist going along with the world domination program. I know some would be soured by this truth, but, I fear, too many would opt for the good life even though it might ultimately lead to disaster for future generations. Do you think this is the reason why so many Americans choose to be distracted by Jon Benet Ramsey, Tom Cruise, the latest box scores, etc.? After all, how many people really watch the "news" shows on FOX, CNN, ABC, etc.? And, how many of them read newspapers, even if the content is tightly controlled and homogenized? Americans just prefer to remain ignorant. It helps them sleep better.

    • You bring up some very interesting questions and it would be well beyond the scope of anything I can reply to the complex sets of questions.

      I will try to give an answer or two.

      It isn’t so much that our well being requires this aggression but we Americans are people who have always lived on other peoples blood. If we take an honest look at ourselves we are a scared people, which makes us a scared nation. From this scared state of mind we elect leaders who share our fright and our biases. These in turn tell us the untruths and falsehoods that we want to here.

      Concurrently to this we (the American Street) project our hate and fear onto other peoples and then we lash out at the phantoms we’ve created. It has always been this way from the days of the "puritains" landing on these shores to present-day living American.

      We express this hate to recent non-eurocentric arrivals onto our shores. We show this hate to the "dubious Whites" (see Ben Franklin’s and Thomas Jefferson’s correspondences), that come from Spain and Mexico.

      All of this aggression is quite independent our "living standard".

      But to form contrast and show that this aggression is not needed to have a high living standard, consider Norway or Sweden.

      (I must run and do some work, break time is over... I will try to post more later...)

  • Will the real slim shady please stand up? Please stand up? We’re gonna have a problem here.