the rewriting of history continues apace

[rone]

"I want you to keep focused on what you are doing here," [Condoleezza] Rice told the diplomats and troops who gathered in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces. "This war came to us, not the other way around."

Fuck you, you lying hag.

Comments

[tongodeon.livejournal.com]

Saddam was a tyrant, true. Whether Saddam needed to be shown the door because of this is something that Congress needed to decide on those merits, NOT the fiction that the Bush Administration invented.

Let's say you need a new car because your old car is a piece of crap. And I have a car that I'm trying to get you to buy. I can tell you what an piece of crap I think your old car is, and I can tell you how nice my new car is, but I can't simply invent lies ("your old car will explode tomorrow!" "my car gets 5000 miles per gallon!") to convince you to buy my car - even if I genuinely believe that you need a new car.

[agentelrond.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with what you're saying. And I don't support the use of false (or, at best, mistaken) information to push for a war.
I'm just saying that I supported it, from the very beginning, for the reasons the Bush Admin started using when it turned out their original justifications didn't hold water.
And I had made the absolutely ABSURD assumption that they had concrete PLANS for what to do once they'd brought down the government besides, ya know, being greeted with flowers and gifts by the entire country.