http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/04/05/03/lang.htmAmerica Disgraced! George Bush's Legacy
By Ted Lang © 2004
May 03, 2004
There are a variety of possibilities as to why the Bush administration’s first and foremost order of business was the invasion of Iraq. Any of several motives, ranging from President George Bush’s need to avenge Saddam’s attempt on his father’s life, or to facilitate lucrative contracts for wealthy political insiders through unbid awards to Bechtel and Halliburton for reconstruction and oil drilling and pipeline construction, or to generate increased profits for the military industrial complex for the Carlyle Group, or for establishing an Eastern Front for Israel and eliminating an enemy that has attacked it, or just preventing China and Russia from gaining foothold access to the world’s second largest oil supply, can all be offered to justify our illegal invasion. It can be all these, or just some, or perhaps only one of them. None justified our attack on Iraq.
The public relations pap of “weapons of mass destruction,” or a required “regime change,” or trying to “bring democracy to the people of Iraq,” are all prepubescent pabulum for public consumption of a dumbed-down American populace. And if the American people are indeed so hopelessly gullible, then it is clear that the Bush administration failed to consider the Internet “enlightenment.” It is obvious that a “business-as-usual” relationship with the corporate media was what the Bush administration felt was all that was needed to transform a lackluster intellect with no real record of achievement or accomplishment into a glorious wartime thinker.
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