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Just to Recap: Ridiculous War, Monumental Mistake
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Posted By:
michaelann at 03/27/2008 11:34:52 AM
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Mr. Boyer:
I want to thank your for your article, which is the best I have read on the truthful events that occurred and finally put us in Iraq. The Bush administration have lied to the American people from day one about the reason(s) to go to war in Iraq. They have used fear; fear for our national security, to keep us there. We have squandered precious lives, will spend trillons of dollars, have re-invigorated terrorist activities and taken away human rights by holding people as "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay. This administration has shown the world what a bully we are by its unilateral approach to foreign policy. -
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ch555x at 03/26/2008 3:56:53 PM
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...and just to think these clowns can not come up with alternatives to oil. They've been messing around with Iran/Iraq for the last few decades. Lousy!!! -
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dickpeery at 03/25/2008 11:40:32 AM
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Spencer Boyer misses the point when he says the war in Iraq is a mistake because of "faulty intelligence and groundless assumptions." The war has been a success because it has secured the control of Middle East oil for American led corporations and denied their fearsome rivals, China and Russia, easy access to it.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell were not naive when they talked about weapons of mass destruction and other fictions. They knew the American people would not accept a war for oil, so they simply lied to get it going.
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