Bases on false intelligence everyone knew there was weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
if leaders are going to start a catastrophic war for weapons that never exist just because they thought so just goes to show how stupid they are. If these weapons are in Syria then why arent we over there and why is our media and government trying to provoke a war with Iran if Saddams weapons are in Syria? The neo-conservative motivation for war with Iraq is made clear in their own policy paper titled A Clean Break : A New Strategy for Securing The Realm written for the Israeli government in 1996. We can read their own words rather then the liberal Guardian Unlimited.
http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm
But in any case, as I have pointed out in this thread
these neo-conservatives were left wing Trotskyites who were opposed to the Vietnam war, just like many other leftist during that time. But now these neo-conservatives have massive influence over the Federal, state, and local governments
particularly the executive branch of the United States Federal Government. Paul Wolfowitz formulated the Bush Doctrine which laid the foundations for the war in Iraq. These neo-conservatives also have massive influence on public opinion and media
the have an entire news network to themselves
Fox News.
provoke a war with Iran??
um... you do realize that Iran has been making threat after threat after threat against the US and Israel, has made it VERY clear that they intend to pursue nuclear weapons, in order to wage war against the US and Israel and are currently sending insurgent forces into Iraq to keep the government there from stabilizing?
it sounds very much to me like
THEY are the ones 'provoking' us, rather than the other way around.
as for why we're not in Syria, good question. as it is, i think our forces are a little thinned out now, due to the amount of troops we have in Afghanistan and Iraq. had we gone in earlier, rather than waiting for the UN to do something, we may have got to the WMD before Hussein moved them out.
as for the obvious big stick up your butt towards Israel, i'd say you've been fed a load of crap by those with a vested interest in keeping you ignorant.
i'm actually reading a very interesting book right now called 'Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America' by Brigitte Gabriel.
Ms. Gabriel grew up in Lebanon during the 70's and was there when Islamic forces started the Lebanese civil war.
she describes how Islamic forces turned what was once the 'Paris of the Middle East' into, basically, a toilet.
the Islamic invaders would come into the peaceful neighborhoods and stage their bombing attacks against Israel from there, knowing that when Israel fired back, it was civilians who would take the brunt of the return fire.
then, these liars would go to the media and talk about how cold blooded and inhumane the Jews were and how because of their 'unprovoked' attacks against Lebanese civilians, they should be 'driven into the sea.'
when Ms. Gabriel had to cross into Israel to take her mother to a hospital [the 'cold blooded' Jewish community were willing to give free medical care to anybody who needed it, Christian, Jew, Muslim or whoever], she had to stay for a few weeks and got to see the differences between what she'd been brought up to believe about the Jews and what was really true.
over and over again in this book, Ms. Gabriel implores the readers to not buy into all the lies the media has pushed about Israel. she specifically names CNN as one news agency that
admitted that they distort some news stories about the atrocities of Islam, simply because they fear retribution [and i do remember when that story broke... about CNN's admission of fear over journalistic integrity... which is why i rely on FOX news above any of the lefty news agencies].
Ms. Gabriel says she can see how those on the left in this country protest against America's war on terror and cry outrage at what they see as 'unfair' treatment of Muslim nations at the hands of the US government. she goes on to say it was America's apathy that helped the terrorist mentality to grow and that they're now using our freedoms, our laws, our rights and sense of equality against us. she said that for all those screaming out against this government and blaming it for all the woes in the Middle East, what they fail to realize is that if the US does nothing about it and the terrorists have their way, they'll overrun this country and that 'freedom of speech' the lefties are so eager to trot out against their own country will be the first thing to go.
