He’s upset “they lied us into war.”
This is a crime?
It’s not even unusual.
Phooey.
But, as so often, one is left to wonder why the hell our
officials really did the particular outrage
they have most recently done.
As so often, the only explanations they provide the public for
what they do are the most foul-smelling and evil pooh.
All we have while it happens and forever after is people
with fake insight and insufficient source material making up their own answers,
yelling about oil, family revenge, or personal profit.
Bush wanted war because Saddam Hussein tried to have his
father assassinated and that ticked him off more than it did his dad.
Or Cheney wanted war to push up the value of his Halliburton
stock.
Or somehow the oil companies got them to do it so they could
take over the Iraqi industry.
Or somebody thought control of Iraqi oil would free our
foreign policy from unhelpful Saudi pressure.
Or the military-industrial-complex just needed somebody to
use up a bunch of the stuff they make so the defense department would order
more.
Or the Israelis needed somebody to smash Saddam in the mouth
for them, punish the Iraqis, and tie up a generation of would-be terrorists in
Baghdad instead of in Tel Aviv.
Or a whole bunch of feckless politicians saw a way to win
elections by out-jingoing each other.
Or a whole lot of stupid Americans thought it would be easy
and well-deserved revenge on a bunch of towel-heads for their share of the
general Muslim joy at 9/11.
A quick and cheap victory and then home by Christmas.
Well, maybe it was all of that.
But it was just another stupid disaster, like all of our
wars against foreign powers since, and maybe including, the Revolution.
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