Eric Margolis (Toronto Sun): U.S. mired in a mess of its own making

[Dudley_DUright]

Misled and misread. That pretty well sums up America's growing disaster in Iraq.

First, President George W. Bush, VP Dick Cheney and a coterie of neo-conservatives led by Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle misled Americans into an unprovoked, unnecessary war by claiming Iraq was about to attack the U.S. with nuclear and biowarfare weapons. This was a grotesque lie that anyone with knowledge of strategic weapons knew was arrant nonsense, but few had the courage or honesty to refute.

Next, the White House gravely misread the strategic situation by swallowing neo-con assurances the "liberation" of Iraq would be a cakewalk and oil bonanza. Last week, Iraqis responded to Bush's foolish challenge, "Bring 'em on," by blowing up UN headquarters in Baghdad and inflicting serious sabotage on Iraq's oil infrastructure.

These attacks show the U.S. has got itself into a truly awesome mess in Iraq. Far from easily plundering Iraq's oil wealth, U.S. occupation troops - almost half the U.S. Army's combat forces - are now under siege, at a cost of $1 billion US weekly.

Bush has literally stuck his head in a hornet's nest in Iraq and is now getting royally stung. He, his scandalously inept national security advisers, and the media's so-called "Iraqi experts" failed to comprehend that a U.S. occupation would be a frightful, expensive, bloody mess - a disaster that was totally predictable.

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http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_aug24.html

[The Zanti Regent]

1. Once again, why must we read this in a Canadian paper?

WHY DOES THE WHORE PRESS GIVE BUSH PASS AFTER PASS?

[Dudley_DUright]

2. Whoops, dupe

please delete or lock.

[Cha]

3. Yeah!

And this coming from a republican!