The shit flows from their lips like honey!

The ambiguous antecendent to “they” might well be seen as just poor language construction, but more likely — after years of trying (lying) to connect Iraq to 9/11 — it is another attempt to re-enforce in the malleable mind of the American voter that we’re in Iraq as a justifiable response to 9/11.

But if you were to call him on it, he would just say that “they” refers to the hijackers, not Iraqis. Plausible deniability. Damage done.

Nonsense like this is the reason I got into blogging. I got so tired of facts being misrepresented, twisted around, or manufactured wholesale by righties in the media that I was compelled to start explaining stuff to anyone who would listen.

But … but … but Christopher Hitchens mentions that all the time as a reason we had to overthrow Saddam! So it must be really, really significant!

The disrespect that the current leadership has for the citizens of this country is astounding. The leader’s arrogance, smugness, and ongoing deceptions must frustrate most people with a modest amount of self-respect. The republican leadership knows that it has not enlightened anyone about the reasons for invading Iraq, and assumes that people don’t take the time to think about it.

The talking point was the best lie that that the Bush gang could pull out of their butts to excuse that fact that the “stronger on national security” gang had made yet another major blunder.

Conservatives are paranoid that if they can’t come up with a better reason then that they sacrificed nearly 3000 American soldier’s lives, and murdered, at least, 100,000 Iraq civilians, because it served as a distraction that cleared the way for them to loot Iraq and rob, (in a multitude of ways - their M.O.,) the American people, they will be charged with war crimes.

The right wing leadership is desperate to find any legitimate reason for their invasion. They risked exposing Iraqi documents that could teach terrorists how to arm, trigger, and understand the core of a nuclear weapon, to find anything that might justify their war.

Bush asked for the authorization to go to war, so that he could keep the peace. He was given the personal authorization to choose to go to war if necessary to keep the peace. Thus the “unitary executive” took personal responsibility for starting the war with Iraq rather than share the responsibility with Congess. When Bush gave orders to attack Iraq it became his war.

Iraq’s nuclear weapons, chemical, and biological weapons programs and stockpiles were nearly all destroyed during and a few months after the Persian Gulf War. With regular fly overs, occasional bombings, economic sanctions, and inspections the Iraqi WMD programs did not recover, and everyone seemed to know it, including republican leaders who then decided to lie about it.

Nothing was going to stop the right wing from indulging their fantasy of robbing two nations simultaneously, (one of them the richest in the world,) so that the fraud they perpetrated would profit them greater than any other corruption between our government and the “free market” in our nation’s history.

Many people don’t seem to understand that no nation goes to war to benefit others. A nation goes to war to benefit itself. The expenditure of resources is thought too great for a nation to commit itself to war for any other reason except one - self-defense.

All this negativity reminds me so much of the high school type loyalty to sports teams, where the collective chants and winning the game is the only important focus in their world. [What teenager ever contemplates whether their own team players will work together with the other team’s players to build a better society when they someday graduate to the adult world?] I think the Republicans ads target voters who have not graduated out of adolescence.

http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2006/11/04/top-10-reasons-bush-posted-nuclear-bomb-cookbook-online/