Article by Eric Margolis sums up Iraq war and Bush very well

[glarius]

I have posted articles by Margolis before...He is an American Republican living in Toronto. He writes for the Toronto Sun and has been against the Iraq war from the beginning. He despairs at the harm Bush and his administration have done to the American reputation abroad.
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2005/06/12/1083345-sun.html

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British and U.S. intelligence agencies were ordered to produce "evidence" to justify a war. In the U.S., faked "evidence" and grotesque lies were fed to the frightened public by pro-war neo-conservatives and frenzied national media. The U.S. Congress clapped for war like trained seals.

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And so it went. Lie after lie. Scare upon scare. Fakery after fakery, trumpeted by the tame media that came to resemble the lickspittle press of the old Soviet Union. Ironically, in the end, horrid Saddam Hussein turned out to be telling the truth all along, while Bush and Blair were not.

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In retrospect, former president Richard Nixon's misdeeds appear trivial compared to Bush's illegal, unnecessary and catastrophic war against Iraq, which has so far killed some 100,000 Iraqis and Americans, cost $275 billion US, and made America's name mud around the globe.

[Wright Patman]

1. I thought he lived in NYC

n/t

[glarius]

2. He may go there often but has been living and working in Toronto

for many years....We often see him on our TV here....:)

[Dudley_DUright]

3. Thanks for the Margolis fix glarius

Bush, in his subsequent State of the Union speech, warned that Iraq was importing uranium from Niger to build nuclear weapons aimed at the U.S. This ludicrous claim was based on a forged document. The forgery was back-channelled to the Pentagon through neo-fascists in Italian military intelligence.

I would still like to know who forged the Niger documents in the first place. How convenient. You have to ask the question "who benefits"?

[glarius]

4. You're welcome....I love the way he doesn't mince words and gets to

the heart of things...

[Ksec]

5. The U.S. Congress clapped for war like trained seals.

future classic line.

[indepat]

6. Mindless trained seals marching in lockstep like lemming rushing to sea

which points out possibly the greatest danger this nation faces: a pervasive and mindless mindset that a Repuke president must be allowed to do any and every thing he wants, no matter how ruinous, how destructive.