White House Officials Now Say Wmds Were Not The Main Reason For War
Politics is an ugly game.
If you ask me it seems that the casual observer to the game of politics
seems to fall into one of two categories;
either you are in the group that doesn't appreciate being lied to
or you're in the group that doesn't care if you are lied to as long
as all ends well. For the sake of clarity we'll call the first group
the "Traitors" and the
second group the "Cheerleaders".
"Traitors" opposed the war against Iraq on the grounds that
they felt they were being lied to. Things just didn't add up. Everyone
talked about this smoking gun that they just didn't see. Traitors
never stopped drinking Evian, they
never went to Burger King and asked to King Size their "freedom
fries" and they never tossed out their Dixie
Chick CDs.
Cheerleaders by nature aren't accustomed to questioning what they are told. Fuck, half the time they don't even know the rules to the game. And you can always point them out on a message board or a radio show because they can't present an argument that isn;t emotionally based. Well that is to be expected, they are cheerleaders after all.
Basically they are just there to give the team something pleasant
to hear when they are on the road. So they did what they were supposed
to do and preoccupied themselves with banning Dixie Chick records,
getting American flag tattoos and doing their best to make the argument
that "happy Iraqis" will
somehow make everything Ok.
Officials inside the government and outside advisors are now admitting
that the Bush administration emphasized the danger of Saddam's weapons
to gain legal justification for war
and to play on the unsettling feelings Americans have about national
security after 9-11 to gain support
for the war. "We were not lying,"
said one official. "But it was just
a matter of emphasis."
Ain't that a bitch?
So the "traitors" that tried to tell the cheerleaders from
day one that something was rotting in the headcheese were right all
along.
If you were against the war in Iraq because you thought that the US
hadn't made a case to justify a war and then once the war was over
in three weeks and you saw Iraqis dancing in the streets you apologized
to the cheerleaders for being wrong about the war shame
on you.
Cheerleaders never understood and they don't to this day that the
war wasn't about whether or not we would make happy Iraqis. And if
you truly believed before the war that if America
had such an open and shut case against Iraq then it shouldn't have
been so difficult to present it, then that reenactment of the final
scene in "Return of the Jedi" that you saw in downtown Baghdad
shouldn't have made a bit of difference.
Not a week after national public opinion polls incontestably showed
that the American public feels that the war with Iraq was justified whether or not any WMDs are ever found in Iraq the Bush administration
decided it was safe to quit playing their version of the Iraqi minister
of information and come clean themselves. Senior officials in the Bush administration
have now admitted that they would be 'amazed' if weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) were found in Iraq.
What? I am confused. Before the war with Iraq the Bush administration
had us believing that Iraqi citizens were using barrels of Mustard
gas as coffee tables in their living rooms.
It turns out now that Dubs and his buds never expected that they would
find a huge arsenal of WMDs in Iraq. Apparently Dubs pre-emptive strike
policy means that we can strike any country with the ability to create
unconventional weapons. You don't even have to have them. They admit
now that they were more concerned with the "potential" of
Saddam's scientists -- to develop WMDs than anything else.
That is why they wanted the UN weapons inspectors out of Iraq as soon
as possible, they knew they were going to find anything anyhow. They
were just holding up the show.
The real reason behind the war with Iraq was to send
a message.
And if you follow the administration's logic it's actually pretty
sound if you buy their premise.
However as is often times the reality of politics, the public wants
to believe we are much better behaved than we actually are.
So the political part of the game is to feed the cheerleaders with
something that they can digest rather quickly and won't upset their
stomachs.
A good comic book style good vs evil plot line works every time.
Apparently, according to officials inside the government and advisors
out of the Bush administration now privately acknowledge that the
reason we went to war with Iraq was for a global showing of American
power and democracy.
The Bush administration felt that the Middle-East would continue to
be a breeding ground for terrorist organizations, swelling their ranks
with young, angry, disenfranchised young Arabs looking for someone
or something to blame for their lives that are often times filled
with poverty, hopelessness and violence unless we gave them a viable
alternative.
And you know what we sell here in America - democracy.
We hawk democracy by the bottle out of the back of a wagon like traveling
salesmen did Snake oil back in the Wild West.
Anything that ails you can be cured with a shot of democracy.
Back pain, blindness, leprosy, syphilis, poverty, religious fundamentalism - whatever's bothering you just take a little democracy that everything will be fine in a few days.
Are you following so far? Al-Qaeda is receiving so many applications
from aspiring suicide bombers that they are turning people away at
the door and the question was what are we going to do about it?
So Dubs and his buds believed that in order to combat the appeal of
terrorism in the region they needed to kick somebody's ass and put
that shit on television 24 hours a day seven days a week so the world
could see it.
Then they needed to set up a democracy somewhere and if possible,
make it the "Arab Israel". By doing this they hoped to send
the message that democracy is the
key not terrorism to improving their
lives by propping them up to the world and saying "Look
they eat."
So why Iraq? It's simple. Saddam just made the perfect villain. He
was so stereotypically evil it was almost cliché. He couldn't
have made a better villain if the Matrix had created him.
What anti-war protestors said then still rings true now, Saddam was
not the only person that had these WMDs nor was he the only one who
blatantly disregarded UN resolutions.
Saddam allegedly had ties to terrorists - but so have several countries
that the United States did not fight namely Saudi Arabia who damn
near every 9-11 terrorist had a connection with.
Now that Iraq is being reconfigured for a democracy, and the United
States seems to be committed to making it work, we seem to be finding
ourselves in an interesting situation. The Shiites in Iraq who make
up roughly 60% of that countries population are fast filling the power
vacuum left by Saddam Hussein. They have already started organizing
local committees, doling out funds to pay salaries, repossessing looted
property and sending militias to secure hospitals and electric plants.
The potential problem seems that if democracy sets in Iraq chances
are good that the Shiite majority will have a loud voice in how Iraq
is run. The problem is, if the idea of a post-war Iraq that looks
like an Islamic State resonates with anyone it will be with the Shiites.
Remember they already run Iran.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld indicated Washington will not allow creation of "an Iranian-type
government" in Iraq. "That
isn't going to happen," he insisted.
Whoa.
So let me get this straight, the Iraqi people can't have anything
they want to eat for dinner after all. They can have anything they
want to eat for dinner on the menu that we give them. Isn't democracy
grand?
Giant
Spider Aliens Are Guarding Saddam Hussein "The parable of those who take protectors other than Allah is that of the spider, who builds to itself a house; but truly the flimsiest of houses is the spider's web; if they but knew." Quran 29:41
The
Third World is 1 Goop Shooting Slingshot Away From Prosperity
It seems to me that in order to get "noticed" a third
world country needs to develop some sort of radioactive goop shooting
slingshot, convince the US that they have enough rubber surplus
to build a rubber band strong enough to use it against us and or
our interests.
Politics is an 
