The New York Times > International > Middle East > Search for Illicit Weapons in Iraq Ends: "Democrats immediately called for Mr. Bush to explain how he and his advisers could have insisted so confidently that dangerous stocks of the banned weapons existed inside Iraq. Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader of the House, said the president needed to explain why he was 'so wrong, for so long.'"
and yet, reelected with a "mandate". It seems the entire country doesn't mind being SO WRONG, FOR SO LONG.
"Mr. Duelfer's interim report to Congress had said that Mr. Hussein had a demonstrated intent to acquire weapons.
But while the administration, in the run-up to the war, portrayed Mr. Hussein as an unstable tyrant amassing dangerous weapons that he was prepared to share with terrorists, Mr. Duelfer found little evidence of any imminent threat.
He reported that Mr. Hussein had built no banned weapons since 1991 and had little or capability of making them."
"Representative Pelosi, in her statement today, said: "After a search that has consumed nearly two years and millions of dollars, and a war that has cost thousands of lives, no weapons of mass destruction have been found, nor has any evidence been uncovered that such weapons were moved to another country. Not only was there not an imminent threat to the United States, the threat described in such alarmist tones by President Bush and the most senior members of his Administration did not exist at all."
She added: "The primary justification for the invasion of Iraq was not supported by fact. Now that the search is finished, President Bush needs to explain to the American people why he was so wrong, for so long, about the reasons for war.""
So, I guess in conclusion, we now know for sure what we all knew all along. Bush was wrong. The only plausible justification for this war remains OIL.
I was reading through old journal entries of mine, and there's one that says that it's ok to invade Iraq for oil as long as we don't drill in ANWR. I don't AGREE with that statement anymore than a statement I made around the same time-- that the Pittsburgh Penguins are and always will be the best hockey team of all time. I guess times change. Well... Now we've done both, destroyed the planet and life HERE and AFAR... And, with no hockey to bitch about, this commentator is left definitively with one statement on his mind: [insert liberal progressive] in '08, please.
30 years from now, someone is going to make a movie about this time like FEAR AND LOATHING was about the 70s. The film footage they'll use in the beginning, instead of Vietnam protesters and shitty Johnson workings, will be Bush speaking about terrorism and dying soldiers and Iraqis. We're going to be the lost generation of protesting state-haters, having finally lost our last battles. If love, compassion and progressive liberalism don't win in 08... Can we ever survive? Sean thinks that all progressives and the intelligentsia should just move to Canada and hope that the War-Mongering Xenophobes don't destroy everything beyond what our science and logic can rebuild. It would be nice to rebuild a utopia...
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday that you'll join us, and the world can live as one." -John Lennon.
"One love! One heart! Let?s get together and feel all right. I'm PLEADING TO MANKIND!" -Bob Marley.
Is oil a better justification for war than holding back communism? Is it worse?
