I don't understand why everyone is such a tizzy over the Downing Street Memo and the idea that our Government "fixed the intelligence" to support the war. If all you liberal scholars out there think this is a RECENT PHENONMENON (lying to the American Public to do what you want to do administration)...then you haven't been paying attention. It's obvious that we aren't paying attention, when the British Public and media caught on to the Downey Street Memo in 2003 and took us two years to catch up. Talk about one delayed reaction.
Does anyone remember Clarke in the Bush Administration, who said the George W. Bush had already indicated he was going after Sadam and Iraq prior to 9/11??? Or how in month of March, prior to 9/11, Muhammed Atta met with top level Iraqi Officials in Germany (as if Muhammed Atta had anything to do with Sadam....he was Osama's Boy and Al Quaeda's soldier, at least according to us!!) Does no one remember how in the 9/11 Commission's report specifically showed there was no relationship between Sadam and the hijacker's of 9/11? Does no one remember how the 9/11 Commission demonstrated that no such meeting occurred betweem Atta and the so called High Iraqi Officials in Germany, by virtue of Atta's cell phone records, which places him in Florida at the supposive meeting time???
There is an ole saying, "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me". Now we have the Carl Rove situation....if you have lied to me once....I am sure you are lying to me now!!!
If the average Joe or Josephine lied and decieved the people around them, the way this President and his administration has done to the American Public, I am fairly sure that are self righteous upright society would view you as a criminal and place you in the appropriate cell. As a society, we have no problem calling that "spade a spade"....so WHY CAN'T WE CALL A SPADE A SPADE WHEN IT COMES TO BUSH AND HIS ADMINISTRATION??? They are liars, cheats, corrupted people passing down an ideological hegemony, of a world with different rules, than that which they live by.
Calling something what it is WHAT I CALL PLAIN SPOKEN AND SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH TALKING OUT BOTH SIDES OF YOUR MOUTH LIKE BUSH DOES (i.e.; I will terminate/fire anyone in my administration that I find was involved in exposing Wilson's wife as a CIA Operative....to now....I will terminate/fire anyone in my adminstration that I find CRIMINIMALLY INVOLVED....). HELLO, IF THIS ADMINISTRATION CAN FIX THE FACTS TO TAKE THIS COUNTRY INTO WAR, WHICH HAS LED TO DEATHS OF AT LEAST 25,000 INNOCENT (LIKE 9/11 VICTIMS)....WELL, I AM SURE THEY CAN FIX THE FACTS TO MAKE CARL ROVE NOT CRIMINALLY INVOLVED....EVEN IF WE NOW KNOW THAT CARL ROVE WAS INVOLVED.
George W. Bush isn't plain spoken....he's a MORON, who can't pronouce his words properly and laughs/smiles/jokes inappropriately in his speeches (i.e.; "I think about it everyday..hehehehe"...talking about the casualities that are occurring over Iraqi). IF YOU BELIEVE A PERSON, REGARDLESS OF WHO THAT PERSON IS IN STATUS, WHO CAN LAUGH AND SMILE IN THE SAME SENTENCE AS TALKING ABOUT THE DEATH OF OUR SERVICEMAN...WELL, THEN WE REALLY ARE THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND!!! No, plain spoken is just some Republican Tag Line to excuse his inappropriateness and his ineptness in intelligence and lack of true leadership skills!!
One last thing, before I end this my first log entry, I keep hearing..."we've got to stand together as a nation", "we may not like how we got there, but we are there and we have to focus on that now, and GET OVER how we got there", the Iraqi People that have died and are dying are either Insurgents, or casualty of war caused by the insurgents (but not our fault)!!
First, if another country (SAY CHINA) came over to the US and start bombing cities here...BECAUSE SOME OTHER COUNTRIES' RESIDENTS, I.E.; SAUDI ARABIA...AFGHANISTAN HAD DONE SOME DESPICABLE HEINOUS ACT ON CHINA, well, I just might call that KICKING THE DOG SYNDROME!! You know when you have a bad day a work and you come home and KICK THE DOG. And if I got KICK LONG ENOUGH AND HARD ENOUGH LIKE WE HAVE DONE TO THE IRAQI CITIZENS (25,000 PLUS INNOCENT DEATH...COMPARED TO 3,000 DEATHS CAUSE BY A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ENTITY) I GUESS I WOULD BECOME AN INSURGENT.
I mean how would you FEEL if you were tried, convicted and BOMBED for something you didn't even do...i.e.; NO INVOLVEMENT WITH 9/11, NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION....AND NOW THE DEATH NUMBERS OF INNOCENT CIVILLIANS ARE GETTING CLOSE TO THE SUPPOSIVE NUMBERS OF DEATHS CAUSED BY SADAM AND HIS REGIME??? Excuse me, if Sadam is accused of MURDERING INNOCENT CIVILLIANS...AREN'T WE GUILTY OF THE SAME??? DOESN'T OUR COUNTRY AND IT'S LEADERS HAVE THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN ON THIER HANDS WITH THE LIES OF INTELLIGENCE.
Let's not forget the British Weapon's Inspector, who said "I don't believe Iraqi has WMD'S", we should give Iraq more time to meet requirements of the UN to let weapons inspectors back in Iraq!! Now what happened to him...HAVE WE FORGOTTEN, oh yeah, he committed unexpected suicide with a knife??? HMMM??? I mean it could happen, but REALLY AND A KNIFE, WHY NOT A GUN, PILLS OR HANGING??
Excuse my digression, but WE DO TEND TO FORGET A LOT AND I AM MORE THAN SURE THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HAS LONG FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE DEATH OF THAT POOR SCIENTIST, WHO TRIED TO STOP THIS WAR AND THE NEEDLESS DEATHS THAT HAVE OCCURRED SINCE, BY PUTTING HIMSELF IN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN THE US AND IRAQ (SEE WHERE THAT GOT HIM).
If another country came into our country and killed so many innocent citizens of my country, I would take up arms to protect my country and it's citizens. I would image that is just how the Iraqi's feel about it. Again, back when we invaded Iraq, initially it was not just Sadam that we (the US) tried and convicted, but the country and it's citizens (labeling their citizens as Muslim Extremists and Terrorists..Like we don't have that problem here in the US with CHRISTIAN EXTREMISTS...ERIC RUDOLPH ANYONE). Beyond trying and convicting all the citizens in Iraq, we additionally marginalized the deaths of their citizens, calling their victim's "unintended casualities of war"...as if to minimize the deaths of innocent Iraqi's to "less than" status!! I mean we were "ONLY LIBERATORS", when we couldn't find weapons of mass destruction to justify our BULLY ACTIONS!!
Answer me this....how many Iraqi's have to die BEFORE THEY ARE VICTIMS??? HOW MANY IRAQI'S DOES IT TAKE TO DIE TO VINDICATE THE DEATHS OF 2,500 "AMERICAN VICTIMS" (i.e.; what the ratio of value....1 American Death is equivalent to 10 or 15 Iraqi's??. How many more bodies, broken families, deestroyed homes & infrastructures have to occur BEFORE "WE" AMERICANS FEEL SAFE?? ADDITIONALLY, IF WE GO AROUND THE EARTH BRING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO OTHER PEOPLE (ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT DON'T DESERVE IT)....WILL WE REALLY EVER REALLY BE SAFE? NEXT TIME SOME TERROIST ACT OCCURS IN THIS COUNTRY (AND WE ALL KNOW IT WILL)...REMEMBER, WE BROUGHT IT ON OURSELVES BY BLINDING FOLLOWING THIS PRESIDENT & HIS ADMINISTRATION.
So, NO I DON'T WANT TO STAND TOGETHER IN A NATION THAT CANNOT SEE IT HAS INNOCENT BLOOD ON IT'S HANDS. I DON'T WANT TO STAND WITH CITIZENS, WHO JUSTIFY, MINIMIZE AND MARGINALIZE THE DEATHS OF OTHER PEOPLE, JUST BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO GOOD GRACE TO BE BORN IN THE GOOD OLE USA!! NO, I WON'T STAND WITH A NATION THAT HAS NO MEMORY AND CANNOT LEARN FROM IT'S OWN LESSONS OF THE PAST.
Anyone watching "INTO THE WEST"....do a little comparison between the mentality of us "white" christian folk pioneers and the Indians and the current situation in Iraq with the Iraqi's. Real haunting parallel....call them Heathens, instead of Terroists. We took their Land, then we took their children...BECAUSE WE HAD SUPERIOR WEAPONDRY AND SAW OURSELVES AS BETTER AND MORE DESERVING THAN THEM PLUS ADD IN ALL THOSE "WELL MEANING INTENTIONS TO CONVERT AND ASSIMILATE THE INDIAN SO THEY WOULD BE JUST LIKE US!!! The road to hell is pave with ignorance and well meaning intentions.
I mean if they couldn't take care of their resources (land in the Indian's situation/oil in Iraq's situation), well we will do it for them and before long...we will take it (the oil), just like we took the land from the Indians. Additonally, we killed and massacred thousands, upon thousands of Indians (innocent women & childred) in the name of fear and security. HMMM...the past repeats. I know that we always think we are the best, and have done the best, but in reality IT'S NOT TRUE!! I wonder why this nation keeps looking over it's shoulder and making it's public so fearful....well, if you do something wrong, you are always looking over your shoulder. That is why another terrorist attack will happen....because we have done something TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY WRONG.
TWO WRONGS WILL NEVER MAKE A RIGHT!! Osama was wrong....WE ARE OSAMA NOW AND ARE EQUALLY WRONG!!
To say that we only have to focus on the here and now, and not to dwell on how we got here IS A GREAT ADMINISTRATION HAT TRICK!! If we do understand how we got here, how do we know how to get back and how not to get here again. The real truth is that the adminstration doesn't want people dwell on it, because WE MIGHT COME TO OUR SENSE AND HOLD THESE PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR LIES AND DESTRUCTION!! By saying we should all be in the same UNITED BOAT and NOT FOCUS ON THE HUGE ERRORS/LIES OF INTELLIGENCE....IS THE SAME AS SAYING "WATCH THE RIGHT HAND, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT THE LEFT HAND IS DOING AND MAKE IT ACCOUNTABLE".
Additionally, if you don't join this group of deluded stepford people....then your are UNPATRIOTIC AND UNAMERICAN (IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS COUNTRY AND IT'S "RHETORIC" YOU SHOULD JUST LEAVE AND MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY). Think about it....DON'T YOU JUST WISH THAT MORE GERMANS WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS NATIONALISTIC DURING HITLER'S REIGN?? DON'T YOU WISH THEY HAD BEEN MORE UN-GERMAN AND LITTLE MORE HUMAN WITH SOME COMMON SENSE AND EMAPTHY??? Perhaps, if that had happen, Hitler might have been taken out of power by his own German Citizens and maybe, just maybe, the halocaust would not have occurred???
Are we creating our own Iraq halocaust with Muslims?? I know that we are not taking them to the "ovens", but aren't we putting them in the middle of a hornet's nest, then antagnozing and provoking the hornets by our presence in "their nest". Thus, when the hornets come out to sting/kill, we blame the hornets for creating the harm, and thereby exhonerate ourselves of our own involvment and responsiblity in the situation???
Is it any wonder why Iraqi's are joining leagues with the terrorists and creating a terrorist training ground in Iraq?? Iraqi's don't see us as liberators, BUT AS ARROGANT DESTROYERS, OPPRESSORS AND LIARS (just like the Indians did)!! Furthermore, Iraqi's have more common bonds (likeness) with the foreign terrorist fighters, i.e.; same geographics (middle east), same religion, same langauage (arabic...middle eastern) therefore, more likely to empathize/sympathize with their beliefs & views,
Iraqi's are likely to feel a common bond of WESTERN OPPRESSION with the terrorists, and after all AREN'T WE SHOWING THEM THAT WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THE LOSS OF THEIR INNOCENT CITIZEN'S LIVES...BUT ONLY OUR OWN COUNTRY'S SECURITY INTEREST!! No offense, but I certainly can certainly see the logical extrapolation of the bond between the Iraqi's and the terrorists. We don't even COUNT THEIR (THE IRAQI'S) CASUALTIES, BUT WE CERTAINLY COUNT OUR OWN!!! Again, sending a STRONG MESSAGE THAT WE MATTER (SO OUR CASUALITIES SHOULD BE COUNTED AND HONORED), BUT JUST DIG A HOLE FOR THEIR DEAD, AND BURY THEIR NAMELESS, FACELESS BODIES..AFTERALL, THEY ARE JUST CASUALITIES OF WAR...NOT REAL VICTIMS!!! What a liberating message!!