Did you hear what Joe Scarborough said this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe?
"I would guarantee you, guarantee you, that while a lot of people in Manhattan and Georgetown and on college campuses are worried about what happened in 2002 and the lead up to the war, Americans are concerned about what's happening now."
Can you believe it? Here's the link - watch for yourself:
http://tinyurl.com/...
Then sign our petition to MSNBC to fire Joe Scarborough :
http://www.democrats.com/fire-joe-scarborough
Bush's invasion of Iraq has killed nearly 4,000 young Americans and 1 million Iraqi civilians. It has maimed, terrorized and displaced millions more. It has cost $500 billion in future taxes and $3 trillion in total economic costs in the first five years alone. It has broken our military through extended deployments and recruiting abuses. And it has destroyed America's reputation in the world.
In other words, it was the worst foreign policy disaster in American history - and a war crime of historic proportions.
Polls show 60% of Americans believe the invasion was a "mistake."
http://www.pollingreport.com/...
But that's way too polite - most of us believe it was a disaster for which Bush and Cheney should be held accountable through impeachment now, followed by indictment and prison after they leave office.
http://impeachforchange.org
And you'd better believe we're Americans, Joe.
It's Americans who are fighting and dying in Iraq, or returning home physically or mentally maimed. It's Americans who are paying the financial costs of the war through higher taxes and higher gasoline prices due to the Middle East turmoil that Bush unleashed. (Gas prices dropped to $1.10 per gallon after 9/11, but rose to $1.75 after Bush invaded Iraq, kept climbing to a record $3.18 now, and will hit $4 in the spring, even if George Bush doesn't know - or doesn't care.)
The invasion of Iraq was based entirely on lies - lies about non-existent Iraqi WMD's and lies about non-existent Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda. Those lies were entirely deliberate, as we learned from the Downing Street Memos:
http://afterdowningstreet.org
But in the months before Bush invaded Iraq, all the TV networks - led by MSNBC and NBC - broadcast nothing but lies.
http://www.warmadeeasythemovie.org
http://www.democrats.com/...
MSNBC actually fired the only host who dared to allow war critics to appear - Phil Donohue. And who did they replace Donohue with? You got it - Joe Scarborough, a former rightwing Republican Congressman who totally supported the invasion.
http://www.jeffcohen.org/
Joe Scarborough owes his TV career to NBC's pre-war lies, so it's no wonder that Scarborough doesn't want to talk about "what happened in 2002 and the lead up to the war."
But Americans do - and that's why Joe Scarborough should be fired.
http://www.democrats.com/fire-joe-scarborough