Peter replies: Because that way the members of Congress, if things started to go badly as they did when the insurgency geared up into full swing, had a form of ‘culpable deniability’ and could scream ‘Bush Lied!’ ‘It was all about the WMDs!’ ‘Blood for Oil!’

So… I didn’t just “miss something”?

After having spent a great deal of time studying and restudying all those UN resolutions, especially UNSC resolution 1441, and the Iraq War resolution, I have consistently wondered about a couple of things:

1) WHY was it not hammered home that most of the rationales cited by Congress referred to UN actions from the nineties or to their OWN legislation from 1998, all long before GW arrived, that GW was acting on policies established 4 years prior to his election?

2)In 2002, 1441 detailed TWO equally important conditions to be met by Iraq, the resumption of inspections and a current and complete DECLARATION of all their WMD PROGRAMS.

The world cheered the resumption of inspections and “no WMD”. However, we barely heard a peep about that declaration, the one that was rejected by the UN. Hans Blix spoke about it, Iraq’s lack of cooperation on “substance”, in each of his reports to the UN after inspections had resumed.

1441 said Iraq would be in “further material breach” if it did not provide a complete and truthful declaraton. The declaration was crucial to the work the inspectors were doing. It was the document inspectors were to use, after physically inspecting sites for any remaining WMD, to determine if Iraq had also totally dismantled all its programs to REBUILD and deliver WMD and would not be able to pose a threat should sanctions finally be lifted.

WHY didn’t we hear more about that declaration in the news? Iraq’s continuing refusal to comply with that requirement was an essential part of the argument that Iraq had failed its “final” chance to avoid all those “serious consequences” and the decision to invade.

Interestingly enough, in June of 2003 Rolf Ekeus, head inspector for UNSCOM, wrote an article saying that Iraqi WMD PROGRAMS posed a more serious threat than any degraded WMD that the inspectors might find. He said the Iraqis had decided to focus on maintaining a WMD program that could, instead of storing WMD, produce them on short notice.

Perhaps that is why their WMD declaration of 2002 was “incomplete” and a re-hash of older reports. A truly “current” report, verified by UN inspectors, would have shown they had done exactly what Ekeus had said and were NOT disarming, a reality totally different from the impression given by the resumption of weapons inspections.

To the left,our new leader is a saviour,and can do nothing bad. As one black woman exclamed”We’re all going to be rich”. With this kind of thinking how can we recover?

We probably don’t. As for me I say let the 52% support the 48% of us that didn’t drink the Kool Aid. Buy as little as possible, don’t support anything Hollywood puts out, keep the income under the tax levels so as not to contribute to the fiasco, assuming the car is not a total gas guzzler keep it going as long as possible and totally tune out the leftie mass media. Let the 52% pay the bills. They deserve it.
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Who is John Galt?

I will not sully the traditional meaning of ‘liberal’ by referring to outright leftists. Leftists who have co-pted that term to attempt to recast their thieving image and intellectually bankrupt philosophies. Then there’s the misinformed on the right who have allowed them to do it and use the term with such disdain.

Call a leftist a leftist.

“Iraq was never a threat to the Western world.”

Nonsense. Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti had no interest in being a civilized player on the world stage. His entire raison d’etre was to taunt the West, and the USA in particular, to humiliate us any way he could. Even to the point of extending an offer of asylum to Osama bin Laden, as documented by CNN in 1999(!):

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:GFBbzS7_FOEJ:www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9902/13/afghan.binladen/

(Link goes to Google cache because CNN wants to hide the truth about radical Islam. If the cache disappears, just search for the phrase “Bin Laden reportedly leaves Afghanistan, whereabouts unknown”.)

Saddam Hussein was a threat to everyone, but he harbored a special hatred for the USA, and he was willing to lend a hand to anyone who could hurt us.

President Obama has a plan to RE-INVENT America. The only way he can do that is by instilling a sense of purpose into the masses. His rise to the presidency has occurred by rallying people behind his image. The inauguration is a continuation of the same philosophy that will actually allow a re-invented America. Re-distribution of concentrated centers of wealth can only occur with intense public support. Don’t be suprised if another civil rights movement appears. That is what happens when the mass actually pays attention to politics.
Jan 19, 2009 – 10:10 am

Ah yes, the bread and circuses….