Today in Editor & Publisher appears a review of the upcoming Bill Moyers documentary, "Buying the War." Weirdly, I found out about it through Drudge... go figure.
Moyers lets everybody have it for helping the Bushies hard sell the Invasion of Iraq as a necessary part of the 'War on Terror' (or, as Borat says, 'Your Terror War'). He also may come the closest I have seen to accusing Colin Powell of being party to this Great Big Lie.
I can recall some news sources at the time indicating that everyone in the know at the Pentagon and the CIA thought most of the salacious 'facts' presented by Bush, et al, were at best murky ... and some outright bullshit. As we all found out.
I guess the saddest part of all this, 5 years and thousands of US, British, and other countries' lives lost, not to mention the 600,000+ Iraqi Dead; the saddest part is watching public figures like John McCain who, though I don't generally agree with him, still respected, debase themselves by supporting digging a DEEPER hole for us there.
Isn't this the ultimate reactionary political scenario? We doggedly continue to support a mission created by fools that endangers the very standard of who we are as a nation, simply because we're "stuck"?
Eff that shit! I have had it with trying to fix Iraq, even if we did break it. Enough is enough. Leave today, go home, and let the crazed freaks duke it out among themselves.
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as they always have.
as they always will.
(duking it out)
Wouldn't Iraq have come blasting apart at the seams if Saddam had died eventually? Couldn't we have just pushed the inevitable into being a tad prematurely?
I just don't know. But I want it to end. There was a very young army kid sitting behind us at the ballgame Thursday. He was a fucking baby. And he stands a decent chance of being killed or maimed over there. I call shenanegans.
The shenanegans of old white men from Texas. Not that Texas is guilty, or that old white men can't be of SOME use (me for example), but I cringe that we should allow a single person (American or otherwise) to die in this clusterfeck of a foreign policy action.
ENOUGH, please.
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