The one thing they CAN'T say...

is that they weren't warned.

As the D.C. folks and the Corporate Media were ramping up support for the unnecessary attack on Iraq, there was a sizeable group of us who were warning that it wasn't going to turn out the way they seemed to think it was.

Of course, we were flying in the face of conventional "wisdom," weren't we? We argued that Saddam didn't pose a danger to us. We argued that there was a big difference between toppling a government and maintaining control afterward.

They can pretend that the problem has been caused by the lack of faith of the American People, but the truth of the matter is that the whole thing, from the very beginning, was an exercise in imperial arrogance that was doomed to failure from the beginning. The people who envisioned the whole thing in the first place, the PNAC, is made up of people with little or no military experience whatsoever, operating under gross assumptions as to what military power can and cannot do.

Not only that, but the assumption that westerners would be greeted as "liberators" without any evidence to support this supposition, was remarkably naive and little more than the product of wishful thinking. Americans do not, as a rule, understand or appreciate their culture.

The problem isn't the execution, as some are saying, but the whole initial concept in the first place. They dreamed big, created a nightmare, and want to pass the responsibility off on anyone to which it might stick.

The fault lies with the very public members of PNAC, George Bush, and those others who knew that the case for war was flawed and falsified. It MOST CERTAINLY doesn't belong to us, the ones who, from the very beginning, pointed out how stupid it actually was.

The media can play it however it likes, but the fact is that they too are complicit in the guilt, since they cheerleaded this exercise in military insanity from the beginning as well.

They were warned. They just refused to listen. And now they're trying to slide their way out of culpability.

Not going to happen. We can't afford to LET that happen.

Because the media is almost as culpable as the Bush administration both for shutting out legitimate protests and complaints and for presenting uncritically the Bush administration's point of view. If Bush misled this nation into war, and failed to prepare fo the obvious aftermath, they are guilty too - and I doubt they are keen on trumpeting their guilt.

On the other hand, one would hope that if we keep up the pressure they won't be able to sweep their culpability under the rug.

Bryant
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and I think the people are beginning to recognize it. Slowly.

We need to remind people again and again how the media helped set this whole thing up.

I'm saying the fact that they are means they won't be keen on trumpeting the fact taht they are complicit.

Bryant
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And if they won't trumpet it doesn't mean WE won't...

to :puke: big time... Come on we have been screaming this out loud and now that the Republicans have lost power, they are starting to reverse their position.. Fuck em is what I say....