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slime & defend hits Richard Clarke
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Yes. Their point, echoed by Jimmy C., is that the whole Afghanistan thing was a beard to give us an excuse to go after Iraq. 9/11 had nothing to do with it. Bush forced an entire country to go to war to finish a job his dad started. the main people in his admin didn't stop him from taking out this vendetta.
The sick part of these theories is the motive- what possible motivation is there for the fantasies- none.
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The suggestion is that you have a bunch of ex-cold warriors who came into office with an eight-year-old agenda (of which terrorism is not a part) and who have been conducting a foreign policy that's not helping us against terrorism. Why the obsession with Iraq? I really don't know. But 9/11 happens, and instead of changing our policies to fit the new events, they shoehorn the prior obsessions into the war on terrorism, and we end up invading Iraq. As the failure to try to take out Zarqawi illustrates, you end up with a foreign policy where fighting terrorism isn't the end, but the pretext for another agenda. The saga of the birth of the Dept. of Homeland Security shows the same thing happening domestically.
Four more years of this? No thanks.
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