Sunday, March 23, 2008

McWAR & IRAQ

I didn't know that St. McWAR pushed for a war with Iraq. This makes his claim to expertise in foreign policy a sanguine joke.

John McCain is betting big on Iraq
By Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 23, 2008

McCain cited the same reasoning when asked why he and nine other congressional leaders urged President Bush in a letter dated Dec. 6, 2001, to next target Iraq since the Taliban regime had collapsed in Afghanistan.

It is "imperative that we plan to eliminate the threat from Iraq," the lawmakers wrote. "We believe that we must directly confront Saddam sooner rather than later."
Posted by Steve J. at 10:32 PM

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The Perverse Lies of War-Whore Mike McConnell, Clear Channel Warmonger Extraordinare

The "in denial" aspect of corporate imperialists in the broadcast media about the failed and unwinnable Iraq War is often overshadowed by elements of their hypocrisy and perversity wrapped into one. No better example exists than the five years worth of war-whoring commentary by WLW Cincinnati flagship, national "Weekend" talk host Mike McConnell,as exemplified eg. by today's broadcast.

McConnell, who uses the Wall Street Journal's take on the war and economics more faithfully than the average Christian uses the Bible, was all a-twitter over the "Harmony Report," and the failure of the GOP to aggressive push its arguments to defend the already lost Iraq War.
Saddam Hussein, you see, had ongoing ties to "terrorists" in the Mideast and the war was justified because he would have eventually used his ties to attack America --and yes!!--while attaining nuclear weapons.

Pre-emption, although in violation of international law, is as holy as
Christ's Redemption, to such as McConnell- the more so as applied to what "might" happen, years later--and on the opposite side of the globe. You wonder why America is hated worldwide with common attitudes like this?

Further, Saddam "bluffed' having WMDs so well, Bush and Co should be forgiven for believing he had them. Dispensing with the second lie first,uttered by McConnell scores of times since 2003, Hans Blix and Scott Ritter both on-scene inspectors, have proclaimed quite the opposite,which McConnell well knows and purposely suppresses.


Blix said by the time of his last visit he was all but convinced Saddam's worst crime was sloppy record-keeping, and equally convinced Bush had already decided to go to war regardless of the evidence. Smooth "bluffing" indeed!

Hussein himself told Dan Rather months before the war the Bush regieme was fully aware he had no remaining WMDS and Ritter has born this out by the testimony of defector Kamel. In fact Ritter bore it out in a pre-war interview with McConnell who derided Ritter for saying the war was going to be
lengthy, probably unwinnable and that no WMDs were going to be found. No apologies to Ritter from lying Mike have been forthcoming,
although McConnell assured Ritter he would issue them if Ritter was proven right.


I guess McConnell believes Iran doesn't watch "Sixty Minutes" and had no idea Saddam wasn't "bluffing." Iran, which now has intelligence agents permeating
Iraq thanks to Bush's criminal blunder, must not have had any clue in 2002 and was also sucked in by the "bluffs" according to war whore McConnell. No Mike, Saddam didn't "bluff" nearly as well as you utter bullcrap. And people who continue to lie in your vein should be made to enjoy the triumph of "the bluffed" Iranian policy in Iraq, for the very unbluffed Iran's leaders are much smarter than the criminals for whom you lie in spite of defeat having stared you in the face since 2004.

Now, as to the ties of Saddam with Mideast "terrorists", there are two main problems: one, since Saddam was "our ally" for decades
until he broke ties by invading Kuwait, we were complicit in any ties to "terrorists" he might have had during this period. To a non-interventionist like Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan on the Traditional as opposed to Israeli-owned, Big Oil owned "Right," this is no problems, as we were advocating hands-off the Middle East during this period. For imperialists who
believe America always does good, except when it doesn't do it forcefully enough, our Likud Party, Israel-friendly policy which has subsidized the dispossession of a million Palestinians, many in refugee camps since 1948,is sacrosanct and any Arab or Moslem who isn't sufficiently submissive, is a "terrorist."
Thus if Saddam gave Hamas (which Russia and China and most of Europe do not classify as 'terrorist') a fifth of the assistance Iran did in the same period (that's the other "axis-of-evil" member, the now-strengthened and very influential in wide swaths of Iraq, McConnell)he was aiding "terrorists." If Saddam
gave Palestinian families whose homes were bulldozed by Israelis in collective punishment 25,000$ to build another house, he was "aiding terrorists." If Anwar Sadat against the wishes of 95% of his subjects, signs a peace treaty with Israel at our bribery and behest and pays for it, it was a "terrorist" who made him pay.
The McConnell/Limbaugh/Levin/
O'Reilley/Hannity corporate media
axis of war whores will help lead,
cheer-lead if you will, America to absolute suicide in the Middle East if statesmen do not arise
to out their continuing sanctioin and rationalization of a failed interventionist policy.
4,000 lies mean nothing to them-chickenhawks all. The 51 year old McConnell has often admitted he would not have served in Vietnam
if he could have escaped it. Now he has accrued a four year record of calling Americans "sissies" for turning against an unwinnable war
with "only" 4000 lost lives, and
tens of thousands of lost limbs and worse.
Complimenting the hypocrisy of an erstwhile draft-dodging chickenhawk are the lies of one, lies which the spirit thereof will inexorably lead to the implementation of a society-polarizing new draft to carry out the preferences of the
hawkish wing of the American ruling elite. We suspect the Mike McConnells of the broadcast elite will be aghast at the Vietnam-like domestic blowback resulting if they are still cheer-leading and lying at the time the cards go out.

Just maybe, Mike, the GOP elite doesn't wax eloquent about the Harmony Report, because it realizes these implications as related to continued American
intervention in the Mideast. Just maybe.

10:16 AM

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