Sunday, March 19, 2006
Entering Year 4 of a "Cakewalk"
Do you remember when Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld said the war in Iraq would take "days" or maybe "weeks""? Dick Cheney-is anyone ever going to hold his chickenhawk, no good for nothing lying ass accountable?
The invasion of Iraq was a lie way before it was an invasion. From Judy Miller writing fake stories fed to her by the administration and Ahmed Chalabi and his minions to Colin Powell spewing his lies to the world at the UN.
Mohamed Elbaradei and the IAEA and others told us before we went in that what Bush, Cheney and Rice were saying were lies but Bush wanted to go into Iraq nonetheless. He had nothing to lose and he didn't care one bit about those who did have something to lose. In fact, George Bush and the Republicans hate our military. They've proven that by the way they've not provided them with what they need and the way they treated them when they came home.
The administration lied about congress having the same intelligence and of course we know that's not true. And, when anyone dare question them about their lies they compounded their crimes by outing a covert CIA agent who ironically, was an expert on Iran's nuclear capablities.
When we got there they played to the cameras from the fake downing of Saddam's statute to the 'rescue' of Jessica Lynch.
Bush and the neocons have allowed war profiteering from Halliburton and other cronies and it's been at the ultimate costs to our troops. Troops that we didn't bother to protect with the proper body or vehicle armor.
He allowed L. Paul Bremer to loot billions and then gave the son-of-a-bitch the Presidential Medal of Freedom for it.
Those in this administration who lied and led us unnecessarily into this war need to be held accountable and imprisoned for what they have done. Some of them have come forward now and admitted the crimes they committed but it's three years to the day, too late, I'm afraid.
Three years, 2,317 young American lives, 17,000 wounded and $400 billion to date wasted and for what? No threat, no ties to 9/11-just lies.
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On August 15, 1935, Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's plane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, in Alaska.