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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 06:31 PM
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"Do people really still believe this?"
This is from Riverbend's latest blog entry regarding Bush's speech:

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

Bush said:
“The troops here and across the world are fighting a global war on terror. The war reached our shores on September 11, 2001.”

Do people really still believe this? In spite of that fact that no WMD were found in Iraq, in spite of the fact that prior to the war, no American was ever killed in Iraq and now almost 2000 are dead on Iraqi soil? It’s difficult to comprehend that rational people, after all of this, still actually accept the claims of a link between 9/11 and Iraq. Or that they could actually believe Iraq is less of a threat today than it was in 2003.

We did not have Al-Qaeda in Iraq prior to the war. We didn’t know that sort of extremism. We didn’t have beheadings or the abduction of foreigners or religious intolerance. We actually pitied America and Americans when the Twin Towers went down and when news began leaking out about it being Muslim fundamentalists- possibly Arabs- we were outraged.

Now 9/11 is getting old. Now, 100,000+ Iraqi lives and 1700+ American lives later, it’s becoming difficult to summon up the same sort of sympathy as before. How does the death of 3,000 Americans and the fall of two towers somehow justify the horrors in Iraq when not one of the people involved with the attack was Iraqi?
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 06:42 PM
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1. Somehow justify the horrors in Iraq
It doesn't. Nothing has, no spin, no twist, no lies, no rationale, no bait and switch, no troop casualy numbers, no polls, no freeper nightmares, no fear, no economic gain for U.S. Corporations, no war profiteering, no republican ideology, no neocon excuses, no PNAC Charter, no impeachable offenses, no treasonous behavior, nothing.

Nothing in this universe will justify the illegal, immoral, unjust way we have treated the ME, Iraq, our former allies in Afghanistan, or anyone else who has been bitten by our state department, our overly efficient military, our foreign policy, our economic hegemony or our willingness to be duped by a bunch of bastards in washington dc.

In other words, you don't get a pass. You are going to jail.

www.brusselstribunal.org
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 06:44 PM
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2. can we as a group,
send our apologies to Iraqi people through Riverbend? and collectively demand an end to the US occupation?
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 06:54 PM
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3. She has an email address
on her blog.
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 07:04 PM
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4. We're not leaving because we want to steal your oil
Sorry, no timetables for withdrawal for you!
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