On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:58:34 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:



"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 2/26/13 8:30 AM, J Herring wrote:


The Iraq war was initiated because our intelligence, the
intelligence of our allies, the leadership
of Iraq, and our Congress believed or announced the building and
storage of weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq.

Salmonbait

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That's just Herring lying to perpetuate the Bush Administration's
lies.
The Bush Administration and its neocon supplicants cooked the intel
out
of Iraq and cooked it over and over and over, and fed false intel to
our
allies, too. This has been discussed openly for years, the Brits have
discussed how they were duped by cooked intel. The sad thing is that
the
righties are still trying to rewrite the reality of the Bush
Administration's bull**** that got us into Iran.

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So, what was his motivations to "cook" the intel and "lie" to the
nation and the world?

I remember hearing, "It's all about the oil". No evidence of that
ever came to be.
I remember hearing, "Revenge for trying to assassinate his father".
No real evidence of that, other than speculation by some.
I remember hearing, "It's Cheney getting Hallibuton contracts" .
Yes, Hallibuton got contracts but they were the only company with the
resources to do them.

So, what's the real reason Bush cooked the intel and lied to the
world? Seems to me that even he is smart enough to realize what the
historical and personal ramifications would be if he knowingly lied
and conducted a war for personal reasons. I just can't buy that. If
he cooked the intel, then so did many others, including many
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate who saw the same reports,
acquired domestically and by our allies. What was Bush doing,
sitting at his computer, modifying the raw data and releasing it to
Congress?

The justification was different for every player. For Bush it was the
insult to his dad and the fact that dad had screwed the Iraqis in the
first gulf war.

For Cheney it was the oil. If they could have controlled the outcome
of the war and installed their puppet government, they could have
controlled a ****load of oil.

For Rumsfeld, who the **** knows. The guy is an asshole.

For the Zionists (Wolfowitz and Pearl), it was to protect Israel.

And everybody in the room was signed up for the other's objective. It
all made sense to them but it was a giant miscalculation. They were
all looking for an excuse to invade Iraq, long before 911.