Sometimes it's all I can do to post this stuff - Bush wanted War Facts Be Damned
I've been suffering from outrage fatigue of late. I've got so much crap on my plate right now that I'm getting tired of eating shit sandwiches with every meal. Really I should just go back to ignoring politics like the rest of the American people. Because if people actually loved this nation like they claimed they did, criminals like Bush and Cheney would already BE in prison instead of having Obama, the supposedly 'liberal media', Republicans and general voter cowardice covering up for them.
What I don't get though, is that this story was broke a while ago it seems. Unless of course more has been revealed why is it coming up now?
Bush Was Set on Path to War, British Memo Says - NYTimes (March 27 2006)
The original Downing Street memo, the Yellowcake Memo, the Manning memo and the attacks on everyone who tried to contradict the Bush war party line all spell out the fact that Bush -knowingly and willingly- lied us into war. Anything that didn't agree had to be destroyed.
My own personal theory as to motive is simple: Bush/Cheney was a fucking failure. They ignored Clinton's Al Qaeda memo and failed to stop 9/11. Their policies did absolutely nothing to keep us 'safe' or make us 'safer'. They were merely window dressing to disguise a fascist powergrab the likes of which should have had all those Teabagging assholes out there protesting but didn't. They wiped his ass with the foundational laws of this country, with the Constitution, with international law. They kidnapped and tortured people. They were raping the environment. They were ignoring the law. They invaded a country that they knew had absolutely nothing to do with the attack on our soil and put us in a situation wherein there is no -win- possible for two different wars, and flushing literally trillions of dollars and thousands of lives down the toilet in the process.
The guys who all were smart enough to figure out how to justify all of this unprecedented unconstitutional shit were also smart enough to realize that the American people would never accept any of this if they found out about it. Unless of course they were distracted by something. George W. Bush's popularity ratings going into 2003 were sitting surfing a high of the supposed Afghan victory and American nationalism and were in the mid 60's. But facts are facts. Bin Ladin was still out there and people at home on American soil (Because apparently we forgot the DC snipers, the Anthrax attacks, all the eco and anti-abortion nutjob attacks and yes attacks by foreign terrorist on American soil since 2001) and abroad were still dying in terrorist attacks anyway and we were creating an entire generation of people who had every reason opportunity and motive to continue to hate and despise us.
His handlers knew that with the Afghan war seeming like it was winding down the American people probably would not re-elect Bush in 2004 over actual decorated war veteran John Kerry. So to reinvigorate his supporters, both voters and the rich corporations, they knew he had to start another war. You don't change jockeys in the middle of the race after all. To pull off a win not only did they have to start another war to make George look like Patton, but they had to start a ridiculous propaganda campaign to make everyone else look like pussies by comparison.
62 million Americans fell for it hook line and sinker and reaped what they sowed. They should well remember that any time they try to bring up the trillions of dollars that Obama is having to spend to fix the mess that Bush left for him. If anyone should be calling for Bush and Cheney's heads for all of this - it should be the 'patriotic', 'god fearing', 'law abiding' 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' 'accept responsibility for your actions' 'government out of my life' 'Fiscal responsibility' Republicans. Instead they circle the wagons and lie and point fingers at everyone except themselves. Oh it's Nancy Pelosi's fault that Bush tortured people! But it's certainly not George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Condelezza Rice, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Jon Yoo, Jay Bybee or any of the Republican talking heads (O'Reilly, Beck, Scarborough, Coulter, Malkin, Savage, Limbaugh et all) who spent the better part of a decade calling Bush's torture policies a triumph, his reasons for invading Iraq justified and anyone who disagreed a traitor.
Barry Goldwater himself would be out there in the streets protesting calling for impeachments and arrests after everything that has come to light.
Our former President's agreement with Iraq says that we'd withdraw all American forces from Iraqi streets back to American bases by Tuesday. If that happens, I frankly will be amazed.
It is now Obama and the Democratic majority in both houses of Congress to END THE WAR, as they were all elected to do (and don't fool yourself that they were elected for any other reason), prosecute the guilty and fix the damage.
Stop fucking around with these traitorous criminal assholes and prosecute. Dick Cheney (Bush et all) doesn't deserve his own torturepalooza talk show on Fox. He deserves a 6x9 cell, an orange jumpsuit and 3 meals a day. And if you fucking Democrats think that we're going to just forget the fact that AFTER we put you in power you sat on your thumbs whining you'll be out of a job when your term is up too.
What I don't get though, is that this story was broke a while ago it seems. Unless of course more has been revealed why is it coming up now?
Bush Was Set on Path to War, British Memo Says - NYTimes (March 27 2006)
But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times.
"Our diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning," David Manning, Mr. Blair's chief foreign policy adviser at the time, wrote in the memo that summarized the discussion between Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair and six of their top aides.
"The start date for the military campaign was now penciled in for 10 March," Mr. Manning wrote, paraphrasing the president. "This was when the bombing would begin."
The original Downing Street memo, the Yellowcake Memo, the Manning memo and the attacks on everyone who tried to contradict the Bush war party line all spell out the fact that Bush -knowingly and willingly- lied us into war. Anything that didn't agree had to be destroyed.
My own personal theory as to motive is simple: Bush/Cheney was a fucking failure. They ignored Clinton's Al Qaeda memo and failed to stop 9/11. Their policies did absolutely nothing to keep us 'safe' or make us 'safer'. They were merely window dressing to disguise a fascist powergrab the likes of which should have had all those Teabagging assholes out there protesting but didn't. They wiped his ass with the foundational laws of this country, with the Constitution, with international law. They kidnapped and tortured people. They were raping the environment. They were ignoring the law. They invaded a country that they knew had absolutely nothing to do with the attack on our soil and put us in a situation wherein there is no -win- possible for two different wars, and flushing literally trillions of dollars and thousands of lives down the toilet in the process.
The guys who all were smart enough to figure out how to justify all of this unprecedented unconstitutional shit were also smart enough to realize that the American people would never accept any of this if they found out about it. Unless of course they were distracted by something. George W. Bush's popularity ratings going into 2003 were sitting surfing a high of the supposed Afghan victory and American nationalism and were in the mid 60's. But facts are facts. Bin Ladin was still out there and people at home on American soil (Because apparently we forgot the DC snipers, the Anthrax attacks, all the eco and anti-abortion nutjob attacks and yes attacks by foreign terrorist on American soil since 2001) and abroad were still dying in terrorist attacks anyway and we were creating an entire generation of people who had every reason opportunity and motive to continue to hate and despise us.
His handlers knew that with the Afghan war seeming like it was winding down the American people probably would not re-elect Bush in 2004 over actual decorated war veteran John Kerry. So to reinvigorate his supporters, both voters and the rich corporations, they knew he had to start another war. You don't change jockeys in the middle of the race after all. To pull off a win not only did they have to start another war to make George look like Patton, but they had to start a ridiculous propaganda campaign to make everyone else look like pussies by comparison.
62 million Americans fell for it hook line and sinker and reaped what they sowed. They should well remember that any time they try to bring up the trillions of dollars that Obama is having to spend to fix the mess that Bush left for him. If anyone should be calling for Bush and Cheney's heads for all of this - it should be the 'patriotic', 'god fearing', 'law abiding' 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' 'accept responsibility for your actions' 'government out of my life' 'Fiscal responsibility' Republicans. Instead they circle the wagons and lie and point fingers at everyone except themselves. Oh it's Nancy Pelosi's fault that Bush tortured people! But it's certainly not George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Condelezza Rice, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Jon Yoo, Jay Bybee or any of the Republican talking heads (O'Reilly, Beck, Scarborough, Coulter, Malkin, Savage, Limbaugh et all) who spent the better part of a decade calling Bush's torture policies a triumph, his reasons for invading Iraq justified and anyone who disagreed a traitor.
Barry Goldwater himself would be out there in the streets protesting calling for impeachments and arrests after everything that has come to light.
Our former President's agreement with Iraq says that we'd withdraw all American forces from Iraqi streets back to American bases by Tuesday. If that happens, I frankly will be amazed.
It is now Obama and the Democratic majority in both houses of Congress to END THE WAR, as they were all elected to do (and don't fool yourself that they were elected for any other reason), prosecute the guilty and fix the damage.
Stop fucking around with these traitorous criminal assholes and prosecute. Dick Cheney (Bush et all) doesn't deserve his own torturepalooza talk show on Fox. He deserves a 6x9 cell, an orange jumpsuit and 3 meals a day. And if you fucking Democrats think that we're going to just forget the fact that AFTER we put you in power you sat on your thumbs whining you'll be out of a job when your term is up too.