Revisionist history about the Iraq war

[babylonsister]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/14/EDDO14KPM8.DTL

Revisionist history about the Iraq war

Sunday, December 14, 2008


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The president's attempt to disassociate himself from accountability for the phony pretext for war is simply outrageous. Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney, were not just two guys in a crowd of "a lot of people" who were worried about Hussein's weapons capability. They were elevating the hysteria about Iraq at a time when some of this nation's most important allies were openly skeptical of U.S. claims of Hussein's weapons cache and capabilities. The Bush administration was sounding alarms - such as Rice's January 2003 suggestion that ceding to uncertainty might cause the "smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" - even though U.N. inspectors were coming up empty.

Most infamously, Bush's 2003 State of the Union address included the 16 words claiming that Hussein had tried to obtain "significant quantities" of uranium, even though red flags had been raised within the State Department about the veracity of the claims.

The best that can be said of the Bush White House is that it was insufficiently vigilant about scrutinizing the intelligence it presented to the world to justify a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that has cost more than 4,200 American lives, hundreds of billions of dollars a year - and incalculable damage to U.S. stature in the world. At worst, it was a campaign of deceit. Historians will be taking a close look at the substantial evidence that the Bush administration was determined to engage Iraq in war from the day it assumed power - and used the fear and confusion in the aftermath of 9/11 to sell this war to the public.

In another exit interview, Bush continued to defend the decision to go to war and argued that he has left Iraq on solid footing for his successor. He even claimed it improved U.S. relations with many foreign nations - a highly dubious contention.

History will not forget that the rationale for this war - which has brought so much death, debt and misery - was thoroughly discredited. The fault for that cannot be delegated to midlevel intelligence analysts.

It rests with the president.

[Demeter]

1. How Typical that W would run out on American Workers To go to Bahgdad

at Xmas for no discernible reason. Glad the Iraqis told him what they feel for him.

[mrcheerful]

2. You forget how quickly the american public forgets what anyone with an R behind their name does

and how even recent history events have been re-written by the right. Reagan brought down the USSR, Star Wars could have worked but congress pulled the funding away, aids was caused by a gay guy in africa who had monkey sex, the current economy isn't Chimps fault or the republicon congress, they inherited it from Clinton, the democratic party has been the majority for the last 40 years.

So more then likely we will see history books in our grand children's hands that will state chimp went to war based on false reports and he was innocent of any wrong doing. They are already trying to promote that Joe McCarthy was right, the USSR had spies in Hollywood making movies that would help the reds take over american.

Your also forgetting that the right has already re-wrote the 1960's, Nam war was being won until hippies and democrats pulled funding for the war, Nixon never bombed Cambodia and Nixon was the greatest leadr before Reagan. Oh yeah don't forget the biggest lie, JFK started the Nam war 6 years before being elected.