Monday, January 12

The Seeds Of Fear And War Happened Long Before Sunday

Paul O'Neill's appearance on 60 Minutes was at least some validation by someone who was in the administration about Bush's almost psychotic obsession to go after Saddam Hussein.

But the evidence was there all along in the Project for the New American Century, co-authored by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and published in 2000. All they needed was a willing stooge in the White House who would carry out the plan. The rest is history. Go there and do a search on "Iraq" - you'll see many many references to their non-existent WMD programs. And damn it, we're going to flog this document until it sinks in. These people are nuts.

The current American peace will be short-lived if the United States becomes vulnerable to rogue powers with small, inexpensive arsenals of ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads or other weapons of mass destruction. We cannot allow North Korea, Iran, Iraq or similar states to undermine American leadership, intimidate American allies or threaten the American homeland itself. The blessings of the American peace, purchased at fearful cost and a century of effort, should not be so trivially squandered.
Well, congratulations. They were squandered in a huge way instead.

Folks...it's that bad. They've gotten away with murder.