Subj : About GWB
To   : Svy
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Sat Oct 08 2005 02:02 am

  Re: About GWB
  By: Svy to All on Mon Oct 03 2005 19:40:00

 >   All in all about GWB everyone got there opinion but the bit about him that
 > Stuck  me in the side is why did he start a second war before the frist was
 > done? Bin Laden  thing should have been finished before Iraq started.
 >   That was his decision to do that.

Here's why:  The war in Afghanistan (initiated to 'get' Bin Laden and 
bring him to justice) was proving, in less than six months, to be a 
complete failure.  Day after day, CNN showed high-precision, laser-guided 
missiles and bombs slamming into large piles of rocks.  The BEFORE photos 
looked exactly like the AFTER photos, and the voters were beginning to say 
"WTF are we DOING over there?"  A good news day was when a US helicopter 
went down due to bad maintainance killing all hands, or when an anti- 
personnel bomb was accidentally fired at a house, killing the bride, the 
bride and grooms mothers, and twenty bridesmaids and flower-girls.

With an election looming in the not-too-distant future, the Commander in 
Chief needed a public, military success.  Needed to stop appearing on TV 
as a tremendous failure, at this time of heightened public awareness to 
foreign policy issues.  To divert the people from the absolute failure 
that was the Afghanistan/Get-OBL campaign, to something else that the 
gullible fools would accept as a surrogate.  Whoever thought of it, I have 
to say they deserve some credit -- personally, I'd never have thought the 
American public was fundamentally DUMB enough to fall for it!

So we suddenly change our "War against Osama" PR campaign to a "War 
against Terrorism" campaign, and look for a softer, more winnable target 
to attack.  Do we pick Libya?  Syria?  *ANY* of the countries that are 
known to support hundreds of terrorist training camps, year round?  No!  
We pick Iraq!  The *ONE* country in the middle-east that has always been 
known to have *NO* terrorists.  *NO* training camps.  *NO* tolerance for 
terrorists.  We pick Iraq because i) we can manufacture some documentary 
rubbish about WMD and the stupid electorate will buy it, and ii) we know 
that their military got pounded into scrap only ten years ago and has 
never recovered since, and iii) our forces have recent experience of 
operating in/over that terrain, and iv) nobody will ever miss Sadam 
Hussein when we chuck him out, and v) oh yeah, there's a ton of cash to be 
made raping the oil reserves of the country.

The primary reason for the war on Iraq was/is to distract from the fact 
that the war on Afghanistan was a joke, and that Osama bin Laden is still 
on the loose, and no closer to being aprehended than on 11th September 2001.



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