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Instead of starting with the premise that this article is untrue, let me ask you this:
If this were true, would you be bothered by it?
Michael Smith writes that after Tony Blair and George W. Bush met at Mr. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas in April 2002, that they started to bomb Iraq "secretly" to try to provoke a war. (Secret from the American people and the American Congress, that is; one would presume that the Iraqis would know that they were being bombed.)
He also says that Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush used the United Nations to try to provoke Iraq into actions that would justify regime change. The decision to change the regime in Iraq had been made, secretly. Now it had to be justified.
I know that many of you will say that Saddam Hussein was a bad guy who killed and tortured his own people. I agree.
I am asking whether you would be bothered by a president deliberately deceiving the American people and Congress, which (as we all know) is the only branch of government with the Constitutional power to declare war.
I am asking whether you would be bothered by a president lying to all of us (and Congress) instead of telling us that he wants to rid the world of a man committing torture and genocide against Kurds, Iranian soldiers, and Iraqi dissidents.
I am asking whether you would be bothered that the lives of American soldiers were put on the line by a Congress, backed by a people, who were being lied to about the reason they were being sent into harms way.
I am asking whether you would be bothered by dropping not-so-smart bombs onto Iraqi civilians to "save" them from another threat (Saddam Hussein) against which they could have risen up if they had wanted to give their lives to do so.
Here is my opinion: Mr. Bush likes to look like a real cowboy, a man with the guts to say what he means and mean what he says. If this story were true, I would think he had proven that he is not that kind of man at all.
I would be bothered by his secret deal and his (successful) attempt to dupe the American people and the American Congress into thinking they were going to war because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction which were a threat to the American people.
The Real News in the Downing Street Memos
Deborah
If this were true, would you be bothered by it?
Michael Smith writes that after Tony Blair and George W. Bush met at Mr. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas in April 2002, that they started to bomb Iraq "secretly" to try to provoke a war. (Secret from the American people and the American Congress, that is; one would presume that the Iraqis would know that they were being bombed.)
He also says that Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush used the United Nations to try to provoke Iraq into actions that would justify regime change. The decision to change the regime in Iraq had been made, secretly. Now it had to be justified.
I know that many of you will say that Saddam Hussein was a bad guy who killed and tortured his own people. I agree.
I am asking whether you would be bothered by a president deliberately deceiving the American people and Congress, which (as we all know) is the only branch of government with the Constitutional power to declare war.
I am asking whether you would be bothered by a president lying to all of us (and Congress) instead of telling us that he wants to rid the world of a man committing torture and genocide against Kurds, Iranian soldiers, and Iraqi dissidents.
I am asking whether you would be bothered that the lives of American soldiers were put on the line by a Congress, backed by a people, who were being lied to about the reason they were being sent into harms way.
I am asking whether you would be bothered by dropping not-so-smart bombs onto Iraqi civilians to "save" them from another threat (Saddam Hussein) against which they could have risen up if they had wanted to give their lives to do so.
Here is my opinion: Mr. Bush likes to look like a real cowboy, a man with the guts to say what he means and mean what he says. If this story were true, I would think he had proven that he is not that kind of man at all.
I would be bothered by his secret deal and his (successful) attempt to dupe the American people and the American Congress into thinking they were going to war because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction which were a threat to the American people.
The Real News in the Downing Street Memos
Deborah