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Originally Posted by Willravel
With all due respect, everyone intellectually capable of understanding that we were lied to in order to go to war has already long since figured it out. Those among us even with the most basic deductive skills cracked the code and the only people left who are unconvinced are suffering from a cognitive dissonance so strong it deserves it's own diagnostic criteria under the delusion section of the DSM-4. "Iraq War Rationalization Syndrome" has a nice ring to it.
We were lied to flagrantly and ad nauseum. This is just the hundred and fiftieth example that's come out in the past 7 years.
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Absolutely spot on.
Valerie Plame . . . January 2001 meetings discussing the invasion of Iraq . . . . the logic involved in invading Iraq as retaliation for something a bunch of Saudis and Yemenis did . . .
But ASU - I don't think it was so much about rebuilding the military as it was about privatizing war into a for-profit business for a lot of Bush & Cheney's friends and business associates (The Bush family has an unbroken 3-generation tradition of war profiteering). Our tax dollars made quite a few businesses obscene amounts of money. Anyone who has not yet seen Iraq For Sale is doing themselves an injustice as far as understanding the depth of immorality and corruption in the Bush Administration. And many of these companies are still getting billions of our tax money under the present Administration.
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Last edited by yournamehere; 02-16-2011 at 09:53 AM..
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