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You sure seem convinced Tom. Share the proof.
TG
Inference to best explanation. (1) they said years before 9/11 what they wanted to do, and they have been doing it. That in itself is enough evidence. (2) the story re: Iraq has changed so many times now, even intelligent people don't remember what was said, but one thing is clear - they lied about it. (3) the change in gov't was intentionally slow to make sure that western investors got the goods. Look at who owns what now, and which companies have been getting the no bid contracts.
These people have played so many folks for dupes. They pretend to be Christian, but their Christianity is a sham. Well, not Cheney, he only claims to be a realist. You know what that means in theories of international conflict - if not, look up the entry for "War" at plato.stanford.edu, and scroll down to "realism." It amounts to the view that moral rules don't apply internationally, that all that matters is getting one's own. So - no human rights, hence the innumerable violations that have all been with the tacit or explicit approval of the admin, the tortures, the avoidance of due process through things like gitmo, the appaling lack of concern for the enviroment, for people, for anything really.
The republican party has repeatedly tampered with elections, they have shoved through socially regressive legislation, they have shoved through tax breaks for the ultra wealthy while making it harder for the rest of us to get along, they have covered for criminals like Rove and Libby, they don't give a #### about you or me or morality or anything but themselves. This is not the repub party of Reagan, or Eisenhower, or the first Bush. They are a bunch of chicken hawks as has been said, and the sooner they are out of office the better for everyone.
Dulce bellum inexpertis as Erasumus' proverb would have it - war is sweet to those who have not experienced it. I've never been in the military, but I can't imagine that the fact that nearly all leading dems have been in the military and nearly none of the repubs have been is any accident. The people in the admin are the moral equvalent of killers, and do not seek freedom but rather tools to further their own purposes.
I don't expect to convince anyone, but one sort of hopes that saying it over and over will cause a few to convince themselves. You have to look at the evidence for yourself - go read through the PNAC docs, and ask: what is the significance of the fact that they came in 1998? That the admin has done what Cheney et al said they would do years before? Of the many people who were on the inside who said that they sought to use 9/11 to justify the war? That we NEVER see body bags, that we NEVER get real pictures of the war on mainstram media?
It is not a moral war, it is strategically a failure, and cheney and bush et al just don't give a ####.
However - U of Michigan won, and still have a chance for the big ten title, so I guess not all is lost.
