Can We Handle The Truth? by Ray McGovern

[kpete]

Bush, Oil -- and Moral Bankruptcy

By Ray McGovern
September 27, 2007


It is an exceedingly dangerous time. Vice President Dick Cheney and his hard-core “neo-conservative” protégés in the administration and Congress are pushing harder and harder for President George W. Bush, isolated from reality, to honor the promise he made to Israel to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.


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It was, it is about oil—unabashedly and shamefully. Even to those lacking experience with U.S. policy in the Middle East, it should have been obvious early on, when every one of Bush’s senior national security officials spoke verbatim from the talking-point sheet, “It’s not about oil.”

Thanks to Greenspan and Kissinger, the truth is now “largely” available to those who do not seek refuge in denial.

The implications for the future are clear—for Iraq and Iran. As far as this administration is concerned (and as Kissinger himself has written), “Withdrawal (from Iraq) is not an option.” Westphalia? U.N. Charter? Geneva Conventions? Hey, we’re talking superpower!

Thus, Greenspan last Monday with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now:

“Getting him out of the control position...was essential. And whether that be done by one means or another was not as important. But it’s clear to me that, were there not the oil resources in Iraq, the whole picture...would have been different.”

Can we handle the truth?

“All truth passes through three stages.
“First, it is ridiculed.
“Second, it is violently opposed.
“Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
--Schopenhauer

When the truth about our country’s policy becomes clear, can we summon the courage to address it from a moral perspective? The Germans left it up to the churches; the churches collaborated.

“There is only us; there never has been any other.”
--Annie Dillard

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[Solly Mack]

1. Try me

[RufusTFirefly]

2. And it's just a few steps beyond that to another conclusion...

... which we won't mention for fear of frightening the children at Booker Elementary.

[Peregrine Took]

3. I love Ray McGovern, a real man of integrity. n/t

[Vilis Veritas]

4. The Puppet Master Is A Tool Of The Oil Corporations.

There is only one way to stop the madness...Impeach Cheney. However, that just seems like so much empty air...there is no will.

We the people are totally ignored. Perhaps, the din is not loud enough...

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