TAIBBI: Forget What We Know Now: We Knew Then the Iraq War Was a Joke

[Martin Eden]

45. The "Bush Doctrine" cannot work, period.

Taken at face value this so-called "doctrine" is based on global US military dominance and the application of "preemptive" military action that is a violation of the UN Charter. This a quest for empire that ultimately is bound to fail and is an official policy that can only be called war crime.

Behind the face value, at its core the "Bush Doctrine" is a strategy to enhance the wealth and power of the corporate ruling class by controlling the government and military apparatus. As such, it is much closer to fascism than representative democracy.

In this doctrine the function of "intelligence" is propaganda for controlling the masses, not as a decision point whether or not to invade another country. That decision is based on whether the country is cooperating with the empire in the corporate exploitation of natural resources and the furtherance of empire.

There was no "intelligence failure" regarding the decision to invade Iraq. It functioned as intended.