Great HuffPost entry by Cenk Uyger (The Young Turks)

[JohnnyRingo]

I sure miss The Young Turks on Surius Left
I know they're on AAR now, but it's a 6:00am show now...I'll never hear it.

It Was Never About the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Cenk Uygur

North Korea is proof positive that the Bush administration never cared about weapons of mass destruction. If that was really their main concern, clearly North Korea would have been their top priority. As it was, North Korea was so low on the priority list that we paid almost no attention to them for six years while they built and tested nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, we invaded a country that had no biological or chemical weapons, let alone even a hint of a nuclear weapons program. Cheney and the rest of the administration looked so far and so wide to find any evidence, questionable or otherwise, to link Iraq to WMD. If they were so concerned about WMD, why didn't they obsess about far, far clearer evidence of WMD in North Korea?

The answer is obvious. They never cared about weapons of mass destruction. That was just a convenient excuse to invade a country they wanted to invade since the first day they stepped into office. One of the main architects of the war, Paul Wolfowitz, pretty much admitted it to Vanity Fair, saying it was the most convenient reason they could use. Paul O'Neill explained that the White House was holding meetings on invading Iraq ten days after inauguration - and eight months before September 11th.

There are some that even argue that the Bush administration eased up on the weapons inspection requirements for North Korea (they argue that because it's true). There are some that argue that the Bush White House stopped an investigation of the financing behind nuclear weapons proliferation, which led to North Korea having the bomb.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/it-was-never-about-the-we_b_31725.html

[driver8]

1. I asked the freepers on my veterans' board right before the war started

why Shrub and Co. weren't concerned about Korea. At the time, they were testing missiles by firing them into the ocean.

I said flat out, "It's not about weapons...it's about oil. No oil in Korea, shrubby doesn't give a shit."

You can imagine how many heads I got spinning with that comment. They were up in arms. "How dare you make an accusation like that against the pResident" they said. "He is trying to keep this country safe from terror. Iraq is a threat...blah, blah, blah."

It was obvious to many of us what was going on from the beginning.

I guess I'll put my tinfoil hat away for awhile.

[bperci108]

2. Satisfying to be right, isn't it?

How many change the subject with, "But CLINTON.....blah, blah, blah...", now?


Good for you; rub their noses in it. :)

[upi402]

3. They do a great job on AAR

I listen all the time.