Subj : Re: About GWB To : Angus McLeod From : Finnigann Date : Sat Oct 08 2005 10:48 am -=> Angus McLeod wrote to Svy <=- AM> Re: About GWB AM> 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. AM> Here's why: The war in Afghanistan (initiated to 'get' Bin Laden and AM> bring him to justice) was proving, in less than six months, to be a Actually it was 'Get AL Quada' with Ossam Bin Laden, the top card. Seems right. Intel from all over the place said so. AM> complete failure. Day after day, CNN showed high-precision, AM> laser-guided missiles and bombs slamming into large piles of rocks. AM> The BEFORE photos looked exactly like the AFTER photos, and the voters AM> were beginning to say "WTF are we DOING over there?" A good news day AM> was when a US helicopter went down due to bad maintainance killing all AM> hands, or when an anti- personnel bomb was accidentally fired at a AM> house, killing the bride, the bride and grooms mothers, and twenty AM> bridesmaids and flower-girls. Ah, yes a bad day in fact for the USA. It's hard to know your friendly rocks from the insurgent rocks. Although they did manage to clean house. AM> With an election looming in the not-too-distant future, the Commander AM> in Chief needed a public, military success. Needed to stop appearing AM> on TV as a tremendous failure, at this time of heightened public AM> awareness to foreign policy issues. To divert the people from the AM> absolute failure that was the Afghanistan/Get-OBL campaign, to AM> something else that the gullible fools would accept as a surrogate. AM> Whoever thought of it, I have to say they deserve some credit -- AM> personally, I'd never have thought the American public was AM> fundamentally DUMB enough to fall for it! You give too much credit... Getting Sadam Husien was always on 'w's mind. He had made plans for an Iraqi invasion almost before swearing in... I am not bothering to find the links as none of those RED state denzens care to read them anyway. AM> So we suddenly change our "War against Osama" PR campaign to a "War AM> against Terrorism" campaign, and look for a softer, more winnable AM> target to attack. Do we pick Libya? Syria? *ANY* of the countries AM> that are known to support hundreds of terrorist training camps, year AM> round? No! We pick Iraq! The *ONE* country in the middle-east that AM> has always been known to have *NO* terrorists. *NO* training camps. AM> *NO* tolerance for terrorists. We pick Iraq because i) we can AM> manufacture some documentary rubbish about WMD and the stupid AM> electorate will buy it, and ii) we know that their military got pounded It's more basic than that. 'w' hated SH for whippin' Dad a decade earlier. It's a family face thing -OR- he wanted to show his family that he could OUT Do dad. YES I think 'w' is that shallow. This also worked for some of the cabinet folks as there is just a bit of profit to be made what with all that oil laying around... who'd miss a few million barrels? But the American public (49% anyway) Screamed about what looked like a grab for Iraqi resources. So they had to let that go (for now) But they can't leave without getting something so the war drags on... AM> into scrap only ten years ago and has never recovered since, and iii) AM> our forces have recent experience of operating in/over that terrain, AM> and iv) nobody will ever miss Sadam Hussein when we chuck him out, and AM> v) oh yeah, there's a ton of cash to be made raping the oil reserves of AM> the country. AM> The primary reason for the war on Iraq was/is to distract from the fact AM> that the war on Afghanistan was a joke, and that Osama bin Laden is AM> still on the loose, and no closer to being aprehended than on 11th AM> September 2001. I think they don't give a rats patoot what happens in Afghanistan. It's not been on the front pages in years. Who cares anymore?[1] [1] The service members that think they are doing their country a service, their families that just want them home safely, and a few of us that have been sitting in a forgotten war ourselves, that who! So Ralph, if you think 'w' is a hero, all I can say is you ain't ever been close to a 'hero'. 'cause he isn't even a close facsimile of one. ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ³ "We live in a society exquisitely ³ dependent on science and technology, ³ in which hardly anyone knows anything ³ about science and technology." ³ - Carl Sagan .... The guy was a mortician and thought it was an exciting job. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.46 þ Synchronet þ Bits-N-Bytes BBS Onehellofa BBS bnb.dtdns.net .