In the Garden of Armageddon

[burythehatchet]

http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/09/armageddon.html

If you haven't yet read this article in Mother Jones magazine, please do so. This is as clear an indictment of the bush administration as I have seen. The information lays bare the truth that WMD had absolutely nothing to do with this invasion, occupation and theft.

It talks about how the US did nothing to prevent the proliferation of nuclear knowledge and technology.

One of my favorite littlew tid-bits...
Harrington and Phillips proposed a $20 million plan to reach out to scientists in Baghdad. Their plan didn't go over well with the Pentagon, which at that point controlled the interim government of Iraq; Phillips remembers being told that as a condition for going, they had to agree not to make a formal request for the $20 million.

Once they got to Baghdad, Harrington was aghast at the scale of the looting. Her $20 million would be a mere drop in the bucket. "You can't just put somebody in a lab," she notes. "Not when they don't have a microscope."

In the end, even Harrington's drop in the bucket evaporated -- never mind that the State Department had made an official announcement allocating the $20 million -- and Harrington and Phillips had to make do with $2 million scraped together from emergency funds. Albright says responsibility for the reversal lies with John Bolton, then the State Department's undersecretary for arms control and international security. "All of this was going to land on Bolton's desk," he notes. "And he was in the camp that thinks all these scientists are criminals


This is a long read and Mother Jones does their usual outstanding job at investigative reporting. It is absolutely essential to understanding the tragedy that is TO COME.

[Double T]

1. I hope we only have to live with 3 1/2 more years of this bush.....

administration insanity. The republicans always seem to come up with a white house collective body of advisers that don't have a clue about what is going on and no understanding of how to resolve problems.

[burythehatchet]

2. I understand what you're saying

but I have to disagree on the motive. I've reached the conclusion that a world wide nuclear armageddon is exactly what these psychotic people want. They have intentionally released the demons of nuclear warfare as it is their assurance of remaining in power.

[driver8]

3. I hate to say it, but I think that you are right.

These guys have only one way to stay in power -- by keeping the country frightened. They are blowing the nuclear horn loudly right now...maybe they feel it is their last chance?? I don't know, but I never thought I would have to fear a nuclear war again in my lifetime.

[burythehatchet]

4. If you read the article, you may arrive at the

same conclusion I did, that nuclear war is inevitable, and Dick Cheney probably has more to do with our situation than anyone else in the world. Yesterday I posted an article from Asia Times that reported Mushareff of Pakistan admitting that Pakistan helped North Korea with its program. Well guess who helped Pakistan.

[havocmom]

6. Ms Plame was outed and her network rendered useless because Cheney

needs lots of dangerous stuff floating around out there to assure war profits and eventual martial law. Revenge against Wilson just an excuse.

No way Cheney and the PNACers will EVER gonna hand over power. They would be tried, convicted of crimes against humanity and tossed into cells. They are not going to let that happen.

Cheney is safe with his bunkers. He can buy anything he needs. What care has he for humanity? War is good for the bottom line and his job is to assure constant war.

Create turmoil and famine and people will do as they are told. No resources left to educate and think when you scramble every moment just to survive. The lords will live well and that is what matters to these fascists.

[burythehatchet]

7. nicely summarized havocmom

somehow "I told ya so" isn't going to help much when this plays out.

[burythehatchet]

5. we lost track of most of the Iraqi nuclear scientists .. we don't know who

they're working with.