The fig leaf has almost slipped off
Apr. 27th, 2003 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoThe ABC News website reports that Administration officials are beginning to say privately what any objective person has known for a long time now: The war was mainly, "...a global show of American power and democracy."
Well, one out of two isn't bad.
Basically, the argument is that 11 Sept. 2001 "changed everything", and that the main reason the Administration played up the idea Iraq had WMD was because they wanted the votes in the UN, not because they actually believed it.
"We were not lying," said one official. "But it was just a matter of emphasis."
Again, one out of two isn't bad.
A further argument is that...
Senior officials decided that unless action was taken, the Middle East would continue to be a breeding ground for terrorists. Officials feared that young Arabs, angry about their lives and without hope, would always looking for someone to hate — and that someone would always be Israel and the United States... The Bush administration felt that a new start was needed in the Middle East and that Iraq was the place to show that it is democracy — not terrorism — that offers hope.
Which would all be well and good except for the facts that a) the government we're about to impose on Iraq won't be democratic, b) if Iraq threatens to become democratic and respect its Shi'ite majority we're only going to send the troops back in, and c) we've given the entire Arab world even more cause to use terrorist tactics against us.
Other than that, I hope you liked the play, Mrs. Lincoln.
But, hey... at least they're scampering up to the edge of admitting they were lying about the WMD...
Well, one out of two isn't bad.
Basically, the argument is that 11 Sept. 2001 "changed everything", and that the main reason the Administration played up the idea Iraq had WMD was because they wanted the votes in the UN, not because they actually believed it.
"We were not lying," said one official. "But it was just a matter of emphasis."
Again, one out of two isn't bad.
A further argument is that...
Senior officials decided that unless action was taken, the Middle East would continue to be a breeding ground for terrorists. Officials feared that young Arabs, angry about their lives and without hope, would always looking for someone to hate — and that someone would always be Israel and the United States... The Bush administration felt that a new start was needed in the Middle East and that Iraq was the place to show that it is democracy — not terrorism — that offers hope.
Which would all be well and good except for the facts that a) the government we're about to impose on Iraq won't be democratic, b) if Iraq threatens to become democratic and respect its Shi'ite majority we're only going to send the troops back in, and c) we've given the entire Arab world even more cause to use terrorist tactics against us.
Other than that, I hope you liked the play, Mrs. Lincoln.
But, hey... at least they're scampering up to the edge of admitting they were lying about the WMD...
