Rumsfeld ordered the Iraq attack.

[johncoby2]

During a heated discussion in the oval office with Secretary of State Colin Powell standing patiently with his hands folded in front of him, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made his pitch to the President of the United States.

Rumsfeld was at his wits end with Powell's logical and cautious approach to the war and with his trade mark clinched teeth he yelled, "Mr. President, give the order to invade, and my troops will find the weapons to justify the war!".

This is what probably happened and it should be enough to put Rumsfeld on trial for war crimes. He gambled with the lives of our troops.

And we lost.

[puddycat]

1. * is ultimately to blame. He wanted personal revenge against Saddam

and he used the neo-con arguments to further his own twisted goals, not to mention all his rich friends are getting richer with this war

[whistle]

2. That was a famous quote that William Randolph Hearst made....

...back in 1898:

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American newspapers, especially those run by Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, jumped on the Maine explosion as the ideal justification to drum up public support for a war of imperialism. "Tabloid headlines depicting Spanish atrocities against Cubans became commonplace, and the influential papers of both men were outdoing each other in the sensationalized screaming for war," says historian Kenneth C. Davis. When Hearst sent artist Frederick Remington to Cuba to supply pictures, he reported that he could not find a war. "You furnish the pictures," Heart replied, "and I'll furnish the war."

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