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IrishRockhound
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Message 1 of 2 (364956)
11-20-2006 4:26 PM


Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq – Mother Jones
I took the trouble to read this all, which took about two hours. It documents precisely the timeline of events from before 9/11 to the war on Iraq and beyond. It highlights the lies and misinformation that the Bush administration has perpetrated during its time in command.
Everything in the timeline has supporting links, many to freely available news publications like CNN.
I have seen people defending Bush and his administration, often very eloquently, during my time as a registered poster here. I suppose the first and only question I have is simply this: how do you defend all this? How do you explain or make excuses for this man, who sent your sons and daughters to die in Iraq on the basis of... what? Intelligence they knew was very weak at best or completely false at worst?
I'm willing to admit that I might not have all the facts, living as I do in Ireland and not America. But as it is I'm not surprised the Democrats won so convincingly.
I highlight this particular piece:
quote:
27th Feb. 2003 Diplomat John Brady Kiesling resigns his post at the US embassy in Greece with a scathing letter to Colin Powell.
"Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America's most potent weapon. We have begun to dismantle the largest and most effective web of international relationships the world has ever known. Our current course will bring instability and danger, not security. We have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic manipulation of American opinion, since the war in Vietnam."
"Mr. Secretary, I have enormous respect for your character and ability. You have preserved more international credibility for us than our policy deserves, and salvaged something positive from the excesses of an ideological and self-serving Administration. But your loyalty to the President goes too far."
From this and the results of the recent elections, it seems quite obvious that the American people share some of his sentiment.
Coffee House please.
Edited by IrishRockhound, : No reason given.

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11-20-2006 4:36 PM


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