09.16.06
it’s ON!
it’s not about 9/11.
it’s not about left wing/right wing, liberal/conservative or partisan propaganda…
it’s not about how smart Dubya is, or what he knew when. it isn’t about theories, conspiracy or otherwise…
we are at war. our troops are dying every day, and innocent Iraqis are being killed. Every day. EVERY day.
yet Osama Bin Laden1 is still at large… and Afghanistan is unraveling… most of the people incarcerated in both Abu Ghirab and Guantanamo have not even been charged with ANYTHING…
THESE are the reasons we were told we had to wage war with Iraq
- [Condoleeza] Rice acknowledged that "there will always be some uncertainty" in determining how close Iraq may be to obtaining a nuclear weapon but said, "We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." - Sept. 8th, 2002, on CNN’s "Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer."
- Citing Bush administration officials, The New York Times reported Sunday that Iraq tried to buy thousands of high-strength aluminum tubes. The tubes, Rice said, "are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs."
- Bush declared in an October 7, 2002 speech: "In 1995, after several years of deceit by the Iraqi regime, the head of Iraq’s military industries defected. It was then that the regime was forced to admit that it had produced more than 30,000 liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents. The inspectors, however, concluded that Iraq had likely produced two to four times that amount. This is a massive stockpile of biological weapons that has never been accounted for, and capable of killing millions."
In a CIA report which was apparently "leaked" to Newsweek, a group of CIA analysts predicted that there was
"a 59 percent probability that an attack on the U.S. homeland involving WMD would occur before 31 March 2003"… It all seems so precise and frightening: a better than 90 percent chance that Saddam will succeed in hitting America with a weapon spewing radiation, germs or poison. But it is important to remember that the odds are determined by averaging a bunch of guesses, informed perhaps, but from experts whose careers can only be ruined by underestimating the threat." - Newsweek, 24 February 2003
"It’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, stoopid"… they don’t get to change the fuckin’ story after the fact; why are we allowing this???…
they didn’t hint that there were weapons of mass destruction… they didn’t imply that Iraq was an imminent threat: they told us they KNEW. you do not wage war on a hunch, people… you don’t invade a nation because you think so…
they were told by their own generals that they weren’t deploying enough troops: this was not an oversight…
protecting the homeland? deposing a threat to world peace? what utter nonsense! This is a direct quote, from Dubya’s speech the day of the Iraq invasion:
And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen carefully to this warning. In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the Iraqi people.
not "don’t shoot our soldiers"… not "welcome the american troops as your liberators and allies"… his first words to the Iraqi people is to express concern about their "source of wealth" — and you want to tell me it’s not about blood for oil??!!!
we were not attacked, neither at home nor abroad, by Iraq… we, the most powerful nation on earth, chose to invade their nation, for reasons of our own design which, in the end, even those who offered us these reasons admit publicly were not so…
the issues are life and death, y’all, not party line and rhetoric… as for me and this blog here, i can no longer waste time ranting on about the obvious, splitting hairs and parsing words — the fradulent nature of this war must be exposed, not debated…
my nation is in a war that should not be… lives are lost for no good, no defensible reason… the fear created by this mad war is being used as an excuse to deny me my civil liberties, under the pretext that i will be made safe by less freedom and more war?!?!
these are lies, straight up, and i will not accept them just because madmen will call me unpatriotic for simpy recognizing the truth… i may not have armies or embassies, but i have the Internet at my fingertips, and an unquenchable thirst for truth and justice…
my nation is being led to ruin, and i can’t just sit by and whine, watching the bodycount climb higher: i will see this madness end…
all well and good, but SFW: what can i, one private citizen with an unread blog, do toward that end?
well; we are about to find out…
- In this speech, six months after "9/11" (March 13, 2002), Bush is quoted saying "I don’t know where he is. You know, I just don’t
spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with
you." This is from the transcipt on the White House’ own site - click and read for yourself…
Yet now that it is time to sow the seeds of fear again, he’s changed his tune: "You know, there is a kind of an urban myth here in Washington about how this administration hasn’t stayed focused on Osama bin Laden," Bush said at a news conference. "Forget it. It’s convenient throw-away lines, you know, when people say that." This from a Sept 16, 2006 press conference
Urban myth? Convenient throw-away lines? Direct quote, motherfucker! [back]