We will NOT forget.
The Arc of the Moral Universe... Is Twisted
by David Michael Green
The story that the Right tells itself – in order to save itself from itself – is that it was all one big innocent cock-up, for which they had no responsibility:
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You’d have to forget that Bush and his cronies confided to family friend and author Mickey Herskowitz in 1999 that they were already planning on invading Iraq, in part because of the political capital they believed a quick and decisive victory would generate for use in ramming through their domestic agenda. Apparently they had been mightily impressed by the political benefits accrued to Margaret Thatcher after winning the Falklands War and sought the same for themselves. Herskowitz had tapes of Bush saying these things, since the author was ghost-writing Bush’s pre-campaign obligatory autobiography. Until he wasn’t. When smarter heads caught wind of what W. had confessed, a campaign operative showed up at Herskowitz’s house one morning at 7:00 AM to confiscate the tapes and files.
You’d also have to forget that Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill confirmed that invading Iraq was being discussed at cabinet meetings from the very beginning of the Bush administration, well before 9/11, and that in these deliberations it was not a matter of if, but when, the administration would launch a war.
You’d have to omit Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s dictated instructions to an aide on 9/11 to “go massive - sweep it all up, things related and not” in which he sought to justify the administration’s full empire-building agenda using the events of that day as cover.
You’d need to forget how yet another insider – terrorism czar Richard Clarke – confirmed that Bush pulled him aside just days after 9/11, poked him in the chest, and ordered him to find a link between the al Qaeda attack and Saddam Hussein.
And one would also need forget, as well, the admission by Paul Wolfowitz – often labeled the architect of the Iraq war, and thus the ultimate insider – that the whole WMD campaign was purely for “bureaucratic” purposes. That is, that within the administration they all had their own reasons for wanting a war against a country not only not harming the US but not even threatening it, but in order to have any hope of selling such an obvious stinker they all had to get on the same page, and that page was WMD. Never mind that it was a Whole Mass of Deceit and they not only knew it, they built it.
More things to forget:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/27/arc-moral-universe-twisted
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