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It is widely known that President Bush led the United States into an “unjustified war” against Iraq based on deceptions and lies linking Hussein Saddam with ties to 9-11 attacks and al Qaeda terrorists, and with possession of WMDs. It is also vastly accepted that Bush has initiated a “global war” against terrorism. However, it is not commonly acknowledged that these two wars in Iraq are distinct and different. The U.S. Congress only authorized Bush to remove the supposedly impending threat of Saddam in the Authorization for Use of Military Force: “to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States.”
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2 January 2006, 16:02
And your point is?
2 January 2006, 18:26
Isn’t it obvious? Bush will conflate the two to lend credibility to the whole as there is no credibility to either part.
The war on terror is an excuse to get the support of Americans even though it is absurd to believe you can wage a war on terror. But then most Americans can never be accused of being great thinkers, particularly the minority of Americans who now blindly support Bush.
The war on Iraq is now known to be a ruse to get a foothold into the mid east. Many thinking Americans knew this all along.
Without this conflation Bush would have had a greater struggle at home to gain support for his misdeeds.
Will Fields
3 January 2006, 00:52
Yes, it is a given that what you say that Bush has done to combine the two streams into one for the benefit of the American. But quantifying it now (some three after the fact) as the poster seems a disconnect for me. If she is just realizing this then we are in real trouble.
As far as the minority of Americans who now blindly support Bush (sic); I would disagree completely... It is a vast majority who agree with Bush and repeat whatever the mantra of the day happens to be.
Unfortunately there are not that many "thinking Amercans"... Or at least, not that many who value truth when it comes to Arabs and Muslims and were (are) not spooked. As a poster pointed out to another article on this Iraq war, sometime last month: The White American has an instrinsic hatered for the Arabs/Muslims that is easily exploited by any weak and changing excuse to kill — as has been shown in the conduct of this war.
I would add to this, that there is a bloodlust in White America for what Iraq is and the resources it has; it’s almost never verbalized but it is easily felt. Many "Christians" in my church to this day speak in these "bloodlust" term... It is no longer pleasurable for me to go to church now...
(Posted by a white American)