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In 1997, the PNAC tried to urge Bill Clinton to go to war against Iraq. On 7/23/02, Blair and Bush decided to 'fix ' the facts around their decision to attack Iraq. On September 12, 2001, before we were certain just 'who' had attacked us, Rumsfeld pushed for an attack against Iraq. We were subsequently threatened with WMDs, mobile labs, mushroom clouds and the 'terrorists' coming 'over here'.
Nothing of the truth would stop the drumbeat of war. The oil companies and their WH cronies had already met to divvy up the spoils. Why let the facts stop them? Why indeed? The Americans, infuriated and humiliated by Al Queda, even though they had no idea who they were, just wanted revenge. They wanted some Arab ass whether it was Talibani, Afghanistani, or Iraqi. It was all the same to them.
Bushco took advantage of this long awaited and desired " Pearl Harbor moment" ( a la PNAC ) and whipped the populace into a warlike frenzy.
The populace was shielded from images of the dead coming home, from the horribly maimed, from the increasing suicides both in Iraq and stateside, of soldiers who could no longer take it.
Given all of the above, what does my 'common sense' tell me? My 'common sense' tells me that this administration, this bellicose, pugnacious, secretive, meanspirited, corporate-backed, powerthirsty administration, has no compunctions about lying to us about such a paltry thing as the numbers of dead, dying and maimed in this war. THEY DO NOT CARE. This administration, composed of chickenhawks and their chickenhawk children, DOES NOT CARE. This administration, which panders to its rightwing religious base, and which has cowed the fawning, whipped-dog media, DOES NOT CARE.
My common sense tells me that I am being lied to every day and that I will continue to be lied to as long as these bloodthirsty, oilthirsty, powerhungry Neocons are in power.
May the Lord God save us all.
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