Saturday, October 14, 2006
And we still don't know the real reason why we went to war.
After all the lives that have been lost, the billions of dollars squandered or stolen and Our Dear Embattled Leader still needs to invent new reasons for his Glorious Little War. Even the AP has noticed his multiple rationalizations.
President Bush keeps revising his explanation for why the U.S. is in Iraq, moving from narrow military objectives at first to history-of-civilization stakes now.If the hopes of the civilized world are riding with ODEL and the Big Dick, we don't have to worry about going to hell, we need to find a way back out.
Initially, the rationale was specific: to stop Saddam Hussein from using what Bush claimed were the Iraqi leader's weapons of mass destruction or from selling them to al-Qaida or other terrorist groups....
....When no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, Bush shifted his war justification to one of liberating Iraqis from a brutal ruler.
After Saddam's capture in December 2003, the rationale became helping to spread democracy through the Middle East. Then it was confronting terrorists in Iraq "so we do not have to face them here at home," and "making America safer," themes Bush pounds today.
"We're in the ideological struggle of the 21st century," he told a California audience this month. "It's a struggle between good and evil."
Vice President Dick Cheney takes it even further: "The hopes of the civilized world ride with us," Cheney tells audiences.
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