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In reply to the discussion: Maddow: MSNBC Special on Iraq WMD Will "Upset" Many [View all]Diclotican
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Not exactly news - as it was known a decade ago, for everyone who was able to put two and two together, that the Administration of mr Bush, was lying, lying, and then some more lying for making the case for the Iraq war.
They was not even shy of making the case for war, with evidences, who was so clearly a hoax, and so full of outright lies, that even a 10 year kid should have understood it... (And most 10 years do understood it I guess)...
The US media have also been cultiple of with wash whatever the Bush administration did, the 8 year they was in office.. Regardless the war crimes - the US media was very god of making excuses, and to tell lies about it - to the evidences was coming to light, as it did when the pictures of soldiers, who proudly was showing of their victims at Abeu Girab - a prison complex, who under Saddam Hussein already had made a notorious reputation - but who under the US control, got a even worst reputation - as the US soldiers, tortured -and even murdered prisoners - and showing it off - by taking pictures of it... But the "smart" ones, higher ups, in the CIA, and in the Army, was never shown in the pictures - and will never getting any punishment for their crimes - who was plenty in the time they was in Iraq...
The US, under the administration of mr Bush - did horrible war crimes in Saddam - and the US media was giving him a free pass - also the others - who was part of the administration in one way or another - was also given a free pass, by the media - even when they more or less admitted to the crimes - and proudly was bragging about how great they had been...
It is definitely TIME for someone to step forward in the US media - to inform a a population who for the most part, have no clue what was being made in their name - the evidences for the crimes, the horrible crimes is overwhelming - and for the most part documented in books, in articles - and in many reports - who was never given to the US population, but who have circulated around the world - and possible made US a few enemies along the way too...
The WMD was a lie - flat out lie from start to end. Just people who had been brainwashed would believe that Iraq pr 2003 had any WMD whats so ever - even though the UN inspectors in Iraq, by the end of 1998 more or less had managed to mop out everything Iraq had of programs - or equipment to make any WMD... As we might know - the US and the UN inspectors in Iraq, was by 1998 asked to leave - because CIA had used the weasel of the UN inspectors - to spy on Iraq government officials - and even tried to requite soldiers - and officers to overthrow Saddam Hussain... The plot was discovered, and many iraqis lost their life in the proses - and the UN inspectors was more or less thrown out of the country...
In 2002-03, the UN inspectors was back inn the country - to look at old and new sites, to, if possible excess the possibility that Iraq had started up the programs, and had WMD weapons - the Inspectors was over all the old sites - and many new ones - who USA intelligence claimed was build to produce WMD.. The UN inspectors, led by Hans Blix, was given a report to the UN Security council, where the evidences was given - but where Hans Blix wanted more time - and more experts on the ground, to document if Iraq had any WMD programs reinstated - The Inspectors was told to F**** them self by no less than the US vice President Dick R. Cheney - and in the end the Inspectors had to leave - because the US was hellbent of going to war...
No Weapons of mass destruction was ever found - not by the UN inspectors in 2002-03 and no one by the Pentagon experts, who was given all the resources the UN inspectors was lacking because of the lack of will from the US government to provide any expert to the UN led organisation... After less than 6 mounts of "recharsh" the Pentagon officers who was there to discover any WMD programs - was either relocated to other task who had nothing with the problems around WMD - or sent back to US, where their reports since have been used as dust catches - as the documents told a whole different story about the possibility about Iraq WMD - than the Bush administration told the public...
I do not believe it is will, or courage in the US to prosecute any officials from the Bush era for what they was doing in Iraq, or in Afghanistan for that matter.. I fear, that the bulk of them, will live out their life - secure, and with no bad days, thinking about the horrible crimes they is guilty of... They know they are secure - as long as their keep their mouth shut - and not in other nations territory. As long as they hide in the US - the crimes they did, on official level - will never be punished - and some of them will even be lauded as great american - by many who really believed the US had to bomb Iraq - and to do the crimes because the possibility of Iraq using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against the US was overwhelming by 2003.. Most americans it looks like lost their mind after 11 sept 2001.. A collective madness happened - and all reasonable thinking just blow away - and for many americans, their mind is still out in the woods somewhere - some are coming to their senses - and is trying to discover what so many others did understood already as the Bush administration was planing their war against Iraq..
And the fact, is if americans really had been educated to understand what happened in their name, in Iraq, and in many other places - I doubt somehow Bush would have been president for 8 years - but as long as they was been scared out of their minds the whole time - by the media, who ran 24/7/365 propaganda to scare the mind of of them - as long as they continued to do that - most americans was blind to the reality..
Diclotican