FINALLY, BUSH ADMITS IT: HE LIED -- Ted Rall

[Khephra]

NANTES, FRANCE--Once again Bush and his top officials are responsible for an outrageous scandal whose monumental scale and grotesquely terrifying implications for our democracy make Watergate look like a fraternity prank. Yet the miscreants are getting away scot-free.


As usual.


The Bush Administration, reported The New York Times on January 8, "has quietly withdrawn from Iraq a 400-member military team whose job was to scour the country for military equipment. The step was described by some military officials as a sign that the administration might have lowered its sights and no longer expected to uncover the caches of chemical and biological weapons that the White House cited as a principal reason for going to war last March."


The Bushies have good reason to think they won't find any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq. They knew full well that the flimsy reports they used to sell their sleazy oil war were more than four years out of date--ancient history by intelligence standards. And, as The Washington Post reports, a newly discovered memo to Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) indicates that Mr. Worse Than Hitler got rid of his WMDs in 1991. Unlike the United States, which unilaterally partitioned Iraq into no-fly zones and created a new Kurdish state, Saddam appears to have complied with the ceasefire agreement that ended the Gulf War (news - web sites).

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1. RE: Admits it

I get the feeling that most of America doesn't care whether the pretenses for was were lies or not. There were a lot of people in the mid and late 90s saying that we should have gotten Saddam (at least that I knew), so it seems that they are getting what they wanted. Doesn't matter to them that it's inherently wrong to lie about going to war, and in fact I would bet that at least some people will put it out of their minds. Confronting the facts would mean that they were wrong in their beliefs.

America seems so much like it's just about "bread and circuses" now. Self-giverning is a great idea, and it works if the people want to govern themselves. I don't believe most do. It's a lot easier to watch Friends five days a week.