The Opinionated Bastard

Scott Ritter was right and documents his case in the book Frontier Justice: The Bushwacking of America. Also, the leaked Downing Street memo shows that the Bush admin was “fixing the facts” in 2002 and that they were already determined to invade iraq, thus making the whole lead up to the war lies to the American people. the US media produced an intense public relations campaign to sell this war and it was all a fiction.

The great thing about this is that this is an enormous ideological failure, where those with militarist and corporate ideology were way off their claims and expectations. The Iraq war is the biggest foreign policy blunder in history for it is already destabilizing energy markets with uncertainty and has increased resistance to US economic will.

ernie

The weird thing about Scott is that if you go dig up things he said a long time ago, its all about how the weapons inspection program is now being run by the French so as NOT to find things because it was embarrassing the French government too much.

Then at some point he did a 180. Go Google him, and look for pre-1995 articles about him.

Pretty strange, that’s all.

Anyways, I don’t dispute that the build up to war was BS. It was pretty obvious at the time. I just see the real reasons for the war with a less paranoid lens then you: I think we did it to topple over the weakest domino, not for any military or corporate reasons. Every Arab leader in the region was making trips to the US to beg us to intervene in Iraq…