Oct. 9th, 2004 07:13 pm
The right time for the report
In am IM conversation with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lorddarkseid this week, he questioned whether or not that the release of the 1,000-page report from the U.S. Weapons Inspection team on Iraq was a plot to get lots of media attention drawn to it - not to mention it just happened to come up just weeks before the election.
I told him that it was probably coincidental, but I am very glad that the report came out when it did.
How would you like it if it was Nov. 2 and the committee released the report. Let's say the day before, the nation voted Bush back into office. I don't know about you, but I would feel shocked and betrayed - especially if I was an undecided voter (which I was until a week and a half ago.) This document, more than anything, proves that the United States went to war for NO REASON.
David Broder questions in his column, "When ever has the United States launched a pre-emptive attack on a foreign nation with as little provocation – and as spurious a rationale – as this war on Iraq?" About the only other times I can count a situation that is similiar to this would be the Vietnam War and the Cuba-American War in 1898. Broder brings up a point. Bush decided since Saddam made his daddy look like a fool that he must go after him now.
On the day the report came out, Bush was in Pennsylvania saying, "there was a risk, a real risk, that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons or materials or information to terrorist networks." However, the report (as well as the State Department and the CIA) both dismissed an Iraq/terrorist link a long time ago.
In last night's debate, Bush said, "I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people. That's why we're bringing al Qaeda to justice." The question he was responding to was why did we go to war against Iraq. Again, what does al Qaeda have to do with Iraq? As the report said, absolutely NOTHING.
Bush has a fairytale going on in his mind that things are all hunky dory in Iraq and that we are being angels of mercy to them. "Think about it: They're going from tyranny to elections. He talked about the reconstruction efforts that are beginning to take hold. He talked about the fact that Iraqis love to be free," Bush said about his meeting with the Iraq finance minister recently.
Tell me this, if everything is all sugar, sparkles, cute kittens and smiling kids in Iraq, why do we keep getting attacks by insurgents in that country against our soldiers and beheading of American and British civilians (among other countries) that have gone over there to help? The actions of Mr. Bush are the same ones that missionaries used 150-200 years ago in a misguided attempt to spread the white man's religion among Native Americans. Missionaries thought that everyone should be Christian and to hell with their existing religion. If you didn't conform, you were starved, ostracized and killed. Then, they turned around and painted a rosy fairytale to members of Congress and people living back East. Tell me this is not happening again.
No, this time was the right one to release the report. It shows Bush is wrong. It is why I will not be voting for the Texas liar. Kerry might have changed his mind. But, he didn't drag us into an unneeded war to push American ideals on a country that may not want them.
To close with a quote from Mr. Kerry:
"I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable.
I came away convinced that, if we worked at it, if we were ready to work and letting Hans Blix do his job and thoroughly go through the inspections, that if push came to shove, they'd be there with us.
But the president just arbitrarily brought the hammer down and said, "Nope. Sorry, time for diplomacy is over. We're going."
He rushed to war without a plan to win the peace.
Ladies and gentleman, he gave you a speech and told you he'd plan carefully, take every precaution, take our allies with us. He didn't. He broke his word."
lorddarkseid this week, he questioned whether or not that the release of the 1,000-page report from the U.S. Weapons Inspection team on Iraq was a plot to get lots of media attention drawn to it - not to mention it just happened to come up just weeks before the election.I told him that it was probably coincidental, but I am very glad that the report came out when it did.
How would you like it if it was Nov. 2 and the committee released the report. Let's say the day before, the nation voted Bush back into office. I don't know about you, but I would feel shocked and betrayed - especially if I was an undecided voter (which I was until a week and a half ago.) This document, more than anything, proves that the United States went to war for NO REASON.
David Broder questions in his column, "When ever has the United States launched a pre-emptive attack on a foreign nation with as little provocation – and as spurious a rationale – as this war on Iraq?" About the only other times I can count a situation that is similiar to this would be the Vietnam War and the Cuba-American War in 1898. Broder brings up a point. Bush decided since Saddam made his daddy look like a fool that he must go after him now.
On the day the report came out, Bush was in Pennsylvania saying, "there was a risk, a real risk, that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons or materials or information to terrorist networks." However, the report (as well as the State Department and the CIA) both dismissed an Iraq/terrorist link a long time ago.
In last night's debate, Bush said, "I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people. That's why we're bringing al Qaeda to justice." The question he was responding to was why did we go to war against Iraq. Again, what does al Qaeda have to do with Iraq? As the report said, absolutely NOTHING.
Bush has a fairytale going on in his mind that things are all hunky dory in Iraq and that we are being angels of mercy to them. "Think about it: They're going from tyranny to elections. He talked about the reconstruction efforts that are beginning to take hold. He talked about the fact that Iraqis love to be free," Bush said about his meeting with the Iraq finance minister recently.
Tell me this, if everything is all sugar, sparkles, cute kittens and smiling kids in Iraq, why do we keep getting attacks by insurgents in that country against our soldiers and beheading of American and British civilians (among other countries) that have gone over there to help? The actions of Mr. Bush are the same ones that missionaries used 150-200 years ago in a misguided attempt to spread the white man's religion among Native Americans. Missionaries thought that everyone should be Christian and to hell with their existing religion. If you didn't conform, you were starved, ostracized and killed. Then, they turned around and painted a rosy fairytale to members of Congress and people living back East. Tell me this is not happening again.
No, this time was the right one to release the report. It shows Bush is wrong. It is why I will not be voting for the Texas liar. Kerry might have changed his mind. But, he didn't drag us into an unneeded war to push American ideals on a country that may not want them.
To close with a quote from Mr. Kerry:
"I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable.
I came away convinced that, if we worked at it, if we were ready to work and letting Hans Blix do his job and thoroughly go through the inspections, that if push came to shove, they'd be there with us.
But the president just arbitrarily brought the hammer down and said, "Nope. Sorry, time for diplomacy is over. We're going."
He rushed to war without a plan to win the peace.
Ladies and gentleman, he gave you a speech and told you he'd plan carefully, take every precaution, take our allies with us. He didn't. He broke his word."
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