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.

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[nothings.livejournal.com]

man

[opadit.livejournal.com]

War is peace! Double-plus-good spike heels and designer suits!

[tongodeon.livejournal.com]

You didn't include the even worse line which followed. They're STILL saying that Iraq caused 9/11.

The United States, along with the rest of the free world, believed somehow for a number of years that people in this region didn't care about freedom… We cared about stability. And what we got was neither. We got a malignancy that was growing that came to haunt us on the fine September day.

Do you recall Roosevelt calling press conferences in 1944 to announce that Japan most certainly *did* attack America at Pearl Harbor? No. Nobody had to give any speeches about that, because it was already true.

Our lady doth protest too much.

[agentelrond.livejournal.com]

I supported the damn thing and I can't believe this shit.

That's not very nice

[skipernicus.livejournal.com]

To hags, I mean.

These guys operate under a time honored paradigm - us versus them (or in geekspeak, everyone else are orcs). But what baffles me is that they decided to kill a bunch of Iraqi's, but to what end? What did they expect to gain from an unprovoked war of aggression? I mean, I don't see gas prices dropping. And I know it's a tired comparison, but I think it really applies here: what's different about Bush slaying Iraqi's and Hitler slaying Jews? We make up excuses for the this war, but there is not one single fact - not one - that justifies this war, which has cost us so much, accomplished so little, and made us the enemy of the world.

According to Deputy Defense Director Paul Wolfowitz, "the war allowed Washington to withdraw troops from Saudi Arabia. The U.S. has had 5,000 troops there since the Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Saudi Arabia is home to many of Islam's holiest sites - and the presence of foreign troops was not welcome, despite the fact that Saudi Arabia is considered a friendly government. The U.S. presence was a recruiting device for Al-Qaeda. The U.S. removed most of it's troops after the fall of Baghdad.

But how has the removal of these troops, ceased to be a recruiting device? What did we trade it for? The death of 100,000+ Iraqis. We have proven that our "concerns" were by and large, fabrications. There were no weapons of mass destruction, the Iraqi's had not commited any terrorist acts on the U.S., and the laughable assertion that we are "protecting the Iraqi's from their own government" was dragged naked into the sunshine by the events at Abu Ghraib.

Wolfowitz also stated that "The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason".

Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that the WMD in question may "have been destroyed in the war". He also said that they may have been destroyed before the war. He did not, however, say that they may have never existed.

This war came to us. She lies. And then she goes on:

Referring to the attacks of September 11, 2001, Rice said, "The absence of freedom in the Middle East -- the freedom deficit -- is what produced the ideology of hatred that allowed them to fly airplanes into a building on a fine September day."

Who are "them"? Middle Easterners in general. And they had to do it on a fine day, they just couldn't wait for a rainy day when everyone was having a bad time.

It appears that these people are war criminals - and if there was any justice, they would have to answer for there acts.

To be fair though, Bill Clinton fooled around with an intern.