What if Bush had told the truth about Iraq on the night the war began?

[IndianaGreen]

Would Bush's speech had sounded like the one that David North described here?:

“My fellow Americans: Tonight the United States has initiated a massive bombardment of Iraq that will soon be followed by a ground invasion of that country’s territory. Insofar as this action is in complete violation of international law, it is all the more necessary that I give you an honest explanation for the actions of your government.

“As you know, most members of my cabinet have occupied very lucrative positions in major corporations, and quite a few of us are intimately connected with the oil industry. My dad, as you might know, made his fortune in that business and continues to follow it closely. The only serious job I ever held before entering politics was also in the oil business, and though I was not particularly successful, I am highly sensitive to its concerns. Our vice president, Dick Cheney, a good man, served recently as CEO of Halliburton and is still receiving annual payments of $600,000 from that company, which plays a major role in the oil exploration business.

“This makes my administration acutely sensitive to the problems of the international oil industry. Oil happens to be a finite resource and there are many who believe that the world will face critical shortages by 2025. So although there is a great deal of money to be made in the oil industry, our decision to go to war is not driven exclusively by personal considerations. We also think it is important that the United States secure its dominant world position by establishing through military means unrestricted access to the oil reserves of the Persian Gulf region.

“As a matter of fact, plans for the conquest of Iraq have been in the works for about a decade. After the fall of the Soviet Union, it became pretty clear that no one could stop the United States from doing what it wanted; and so the United States began developing plans for establishing an unchallengeable position of global hegemony. In these plans, oil plays a big role and Iraq—which has the second largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world—became a prime target for attack. Of course, we couldn’t just say that the United States wanted Iraq for its oil, so we had to come up with some other reason. That’s how we all came up with the idea of weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/may2003/war-m07.shtml

[soothsayer]

1. You left out the stuff about the neocons and pnac and our wish to do

israel's bidding

methinks there's more than oil going on here, but that's some of it for sure

[David Zephyr]

2. Sadly, There Would Have Still Been A War.

I heard some Republican moron on the radio the other evening here in Los Angeles actually say the following:

"So what! Bush lied. He lied because he had to as Americans are weak and would never have had the guts to go after the dictator."

I guess the only good thing in that is that even the right wing is now acknowledging that there are no WMD's and that Bush lied.

[Faygo Kid]

3. Bush tell the truth?!?

He can't HANDLE the truth. And, he has no clue about the truth, about this nation, about world affairs, about American and world history. Ignorant SOB.