Reply #33: Toledoblade : "Americans deserve the unspun truth about Iraq"

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Americans deserve the unspun truth about Iraq

Marilou Johanek

July 8, 2005

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George W. Bush, the man who set up the whole scenario with unsubstantiated claims of weapons of mass destruction, with sensational but phony arguments of the smoking gun being a "mushroom cloud," with tragically premature "mission accomplished" propaganda and inane "bring it on" bravado, wants Americans to trust him again.

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Most of us wish we could take the President and the Pentagon and Donald Rumsfeld at their word, but their stubborn aversion to straight talk and the plain truth makes that impossible. More than pep talks or scripted appearances and orchestrated rallies to support the troops - even as VA benefits are being cut - Americans want the truth.

No more excuses. No more using the unrelated terrorist attacks of 9/11 or terrorism in general as a crutch to explain Iraq. No more pap about taking the fight to the terrorists so we won't have to fight them at home. No more canned speeches about spreading liberty and justice for all when Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo beg to differ.

More at the link:
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050708/COLUMNIST13/507080312

I agree with Ms Johanek's assessment, however, she then falls into a trap that the neoconsters have skillfully assembled.

It's the 'if we leave, then chaos,' trap.

The neoconsters' cagey meme for what they really intend - perpetual war. They not only want to control the petrol, they want to keep their Halliburton's and Raytheon's humming and profiting.

So, to Ms Johanek's ....:

While there is a growing recognition in the country that going to war was a bad decision based on nonexistent WMDs, there is also a growing resignation that the U.S. can't up and leave the chaos it unleashed. We know we have to see this nightmare through and it makes us sick.

... I suggest that our presence in Iraq will gurantee that the 'nightmare' becomes reality and that horrible reality entails expansion of the market for treachery, deception, death and destruction from which the neoconsters draw their enormous profits.

The reality of nuclear-age imperialism, in plain sight.


Peace.

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