Op-Ed: Bush's Brave New World

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...In the run-up to election day Bill O’Reilly and his Goebbel’s-like brethren were still citing Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi’s alleged medical treatment in a Baghdad hospital (after losing a leg in an American air-strike in Afghanistan) as proof of a sinister connection—even though U.S. intelligence officials have now disregarded this claim as a bogus report, and acknowledged that the guy still struts around on two feet.

The relentless propaganda worked. It must have. For how else can Bush supporters stomach the morally repugnant manner in which Iraq's citizens have been exploited. To be using them as a honeycomb to attract terrorists from around the region who are as eager to kill fellow Arabs as they are coalition Forces. To have killed, according to the highly respected Lancet journal, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians under the auspices of creating a Democracy that will magically begin a domino effect throughout the Middle East. All the while bankrupting the American treasury with unprecedented deficits, forcing the government to borrow almost $2 billion a day from foreign lenders—communist China being the second biggest creditor....

http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/blyler/brave_new_world_1104.htm