Bush administration officials confirms War on Terror a political ploy

[kpete]

As George Bush said on September 19, 2001:

…through my tears, I see opportunity
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/sept_11/president_020.htm


Bush administration officials confirms War on Terror a political ploy
Here’s Scott Horton, writing for Harper’s:
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000784

I attended (a recent conference) in Italy with a group of European and American counterterrorism experts. A large team of U.S. Department of Justice officials, drawn from its uppermost echelons, was there, including three of the principal architects of the legal policies for the war on terror. In not-for-attribution comments, one openly acknowledged that the war on terror was cast in the first instance as a political ploy and that it was a conceptual failure. It was now essential for the Americans to move on to something else, he argued. None of the others challenged that view; indeed, two of them said that they agreed with it. So even inside of the Bush Administration, the war on terror has been written off as a scam that served its limited political purpose and is finished.

http://thismodernworld.com/3905

[ixion]

1. yeah, so is the WoD... but the draconian drug laws enacted during it

remain in effect. So they'll dump the WoT, but the unPATRIOTic Act, the Military Commissions Act and all that other BS will be right there. :grr:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Well, bowl me over with a feather.

Let me tell you, I never had the first idea that it all was a political ploy. All I saw was the altruism dripping from every word.

I am just so surprised.

[EVDebs]

3. Hint, Bush's Trifecta "joke"

http://www.davidcogswell.com/MediaRoulette/TrifectaJoke.html

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. The genesis was scary to see, the stench lingers.

Thanks kpete, K & R. MKJ

[kpete]

6. you are very welcome

and yes, they are a sinister lot for sure.

[Hydra]

5. Thanks for posting this

I like to know articles like this are out there so I can show people that they're being used. Even here I sometimes get a "But what about the terrorists?!?! There are still TERRORISTS that want our blood!"

That meme has just about hit rock bottom...

[radfringe]

7. can we impeach now?

if you dont's support impeachment and urge your reps to impeach there will be NO votes for impeachment

politicians wait for a parade to begin and then they jump in front to lead. We, the people, have to start the parade

[donkeyotay]

8. Stop and remember all that terra crap they've put us through

The color-coded alerts and the timing that Olbermann has documented so well. Was that not terrorizing the American people? Was that itself not defined in the Patriot Act as terror? Now they want to come along and do an "aw schucks, no harm no foul." Well, there was plenty of harm done in the name of fending off this terror. It may have been "a scam that served its limited political purpose and is finished" but the consequences are not something we can let stand.

[indepat]

9. Gee, I'm shocked: who woulda thunk the war on terra were a political ploy