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Title: 21 Rationales for War
Source:
Foreign Policy
URL Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2679
Published: Jun 29, 2008
Author: various CFR stooges
Post Date: 2008-06-29 13:49:54 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 91
Comments: 3
Want a reason for war with Iraq? Here are 21. A study by Devon Largio, a recent graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, reveals that between September 2001 and October 2002 10 key players in the debate over Iraq presented at least 21 rationales for going to war. Largio examines the public statements of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, Sens. Joseph Lieberman and John McCain, Richard Perle (then chairman of the Defense Policy Review Board), Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Poster Comment: Here is a list of 21 different rationales given between 9/01 to 10/02 by leading figures in Congress and in the Administration for going to war in Iraq. While it does not constitute a list of "lies", it gives an interesting look into the excuses fed to the public by our leaders. Note John McCain's multiple rationales and Democratic leaders' rationales. One question begs to be asked: Why didn't anyone state the obvious --> OIL? It's not necessarily the oil in the ground in Iraq per se, but the oil that is underneath the Middle East region in general that is of concern. The leading figures of the Council on Foreign Relations stated publicly in the 1990s that the most important area strategically in the entire world is the swath of territory from Israel to Pakistan. This is because 65% of the world's oil and natural gas reserves exists underneath Central and South central Asia. America needs cheap energy and our trustworthy Establishment is getting ever more desperate and fearful that the markets will not tilt the scale in our favor in the not-so-distant foreseeable future. Their hunger for war as the only solution has now guaranteed that market forces will not be favorable in the future.
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#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Most of these "reasons" are just variations on the "they hate us for our freedom" crap that the Bush administration and the neocons have been repeating non-stop for the past 8 years.
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