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Originally posted by island911
 Brilliant.
Has this 'war' embarassed you so much that you feel for Saddam?
Should we have let Saddam keep Hans Blix so gainfully employed? .... all whilst Iraq was shooting at our planes? . ... all whilst buying UN protection thru "food for oil" cover? . .. all whilst funding terrorist to pop in crowded areas? ....worlds third largest army. --the list is very long.
So here is where your knee-jerk segway into how evil GW is, comes in. . . .you know, that evil bastard wanted to listen in on international phone calls. --pure evil. Quick, tell us all how GW Bush is the one to pin it all on.
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I've got some oceanfront property in Nevada to sell you. Cripes, with the way you're buying the revisionist rationalizations for the war in Iraq, I get the feeling you'd go for it too. Stop being so gullible. Let's look at the chronological history of the "reasons" for the invasion, shall we?
1. WMDs!!! Oh my god!!! The sky is falling!!! Our brilliant leader gets up there and says (and I quote), "Iraq represents a grave and gathering danger" to the U.S. and western interests. An "imminent threat" (without methods of delivery or WMD warheads, but that's not important, right? We'll just make it up in some "intelligence" reports to justify our actions). Still nothing found to date except some overlooked, mostly inert artillery shells the Iraqi army commanders probably didn't even realize they still had. No mobile anthrax labs. No nuclear reactors. No plutonium bombs. Nothin'. A few aging Soviet-era anti-aircraft radar batteries that were used mostly to torment aircraft in the "no fly" zones (and when they flipped 'em on, it usually resulted in a HARM being launched down their throats, so they were largely just a nuisance anyway - it was suicide to actually use them in an aggressive manner). When it started to become clear that there WERE no WMDs (for me it was when U.S. troops closed to within 20 miles of Baghdad - if Iraq had 'em they'd have used 'em then), the Administration switched its focus to:
2. LINK TO AL-QAEDA!!! Yes! Saddam Hussein is really OBL's long-lost cousin! He's in secret meetings with the operators of anti-western terrorist camps daily! He's harboring the next wave of suicide hijackers in one of his palaces! He's a Muslim extremist (he's not, he's actually not a religious guy at all, but don't let facts get in the way of a good story here. . .) Of course the 9/11 Commission (and fortunately most of the American people) realized that this was a steaming pile of propagandist poo-poo also. So, undaunted, Bush and Co. whipped out:
3. LIBERATION OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE!!! Yea! That's it! That's the REAL reason we went there! For the Iraqi populace! We're working on winning their "hearts and minds" (and oil, but just forget about that - it's not important). . . These poor misunderstood people really love each other and want nothing more than to hold hands and sing koombyaa and roast s'mores together over campfires and embrace our superior western values. Yep. We decided it was a humanitarian effort and those poor western-lovin' people had suffered under Hussein long enough (just don't mention Darfur, okay?) Of course most people didn't buy that either, so the Bush spin machine invented:
4. THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY!!! Yes! Nothing else is working, so we'll go back to the excuse that was used to justify the American presence in Vietnam for such a long time. Yea - we're promoting the march of democracy in the region! It's the big picture folks. Really! We went there to sow the seeds of democracy and let the Iraqis govern themselves! 'Cause that's our purpose in the world - helping to build stronger independent nations. But we don't believe in "nation building". Nope. That's. . . um. . . different. . . somehow. Just forget about that. . . "FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH!!! RAH!!! RAH!!! RAH!!!". Which brings us to today:
5. IRAQI SELF-GOVERNMENT!!! Well, kind of a hybrid of #3 and #4 - now we claim that we're really there to "help" the Iraqi government get up to speed with the task of governing the country (which we destroyed the infrastructure of, but that's not important either). We're really just big fuzzy-wuzzy teddy bears that wanna' give the poor widdle Iraqi interim government leaders huggy-wuggies and make sure they don't have any hard times. 'cause this whole thing was really about getting the Iraqis to govern themselves from the beginning. We had no intention of going in there to set up a puppet government and putting semi-permanent military bases in as a check against Iran or Syria at the request of the Israelis now, did we? Oil? Pshaw. "War for oil" is a mantra recited by anti-patriotic leftist pinko commies! Of course it is, silly! There's no need for OIL out of Iraq! We want THEM to have their OWN oil and to support themselves in a democratic way! Of course! That's what we meant to say from the beginning. . .
C'mon dude. Is your memory THAT short? This thing has stunk of bull**** from the get-go. And it wasn't that long ago. We had no business there other than we wanted a permanent presence in the M.E. to hang a "sword of Damocles" over the heads of the Iranians and Syrians (probably at the beckon call of Israel) and as a side- benefit to (1) avenge the assassination plot against daddy and (2) to pay back my oil buddies for getting me elected.
LET'S GET F*CKING REAL HERE!!!
Money. Politics. Period. That's the reason and the explaination for 99% of what goes on in the world. Cripes!