yod wrote:
I have a friend now retired, but was a Senior Admiral working in the Pentagon for the last decade. He watched the centrifuges being trucked into Iran in the days leading up to the Iraq war over satelite surveillance. No one can figure out why that information wasn't made public. Instead of publishing what he knew, Bush took a beating in the press and from Democrats who had the same info.
And there was an Al Queda training site in northeastern Iraq. There is a lot that can't be made public knowledge, for whatever reason.
Yet, if that were true, you would likely be sitting in a cell next to PFC Bradley Manning for divulging classified information, in a public forum no less. You would likely be interrogated (tortured) to give up that senior admiral's name who is evidently leaking classified information to civilians.
yod wrote:It took an invasion to find out whether Saddam had the ability to build a nuke and EVERYONE IN THE WORLD believed he was developing one. If he had let UN Inspectors check it out unhindered, there would have been no reason for suspicion.
When he stuck a finger up to the world 17 times, do you think another dozen attempts would have helped?
Now you are repeating what I've already pointed out is a lie. Several whistle-blowers came forward to tell us that the "evidence" was being manufactured and falsified, and many were punished for bringing the truth to the public. The MSM largely ignored these revelations simply because most of them were complicit in it. The only reason we know the truth is because of the internet and the independent media that operates outside of the MSM, thanks to a handful of real journalists who had the balls to investigate the truths behind the invasions.
yod wrote:Then what? Tickling? A duel of checkers? Ignore it until Israel does something about it?
Bush at least let Congress vote on it. They agreed.
Well congress agreed because the MSM sold it to them as much as they sold it to the masses. Do you think that the Rummy/Cheyney/Rove network didn't use their vast connections and influence to also push congress into it? Add in the Pentagon who only seems to starve for war and bigger budgets, and lastly the MIC and countless teams of lawyers and lobbyists. Bomb-making is what they do, it's how they survive, and no war means much fewer bombs and corporate profits slide. Can't have that, can we?
We have a long-standing history of breeding resentment and hatred in the middle east because of our intervention and actions there for much of the last century. Many there have a very real and legitimate reason for hating us.
Personally, if I were a peaceful muslim working a farm and family in some desert in Iraq or wherever, and some US drone blew up my house, my family, my kids, my in-laws, etc.. while I was out working in the field.. and I have nothing left, it's all gone- What do you think I would do? Same goes for when the occupiers roll up in their hum-vees and rape my wife, my daughter and beat my son to death. Hey.. how about when they just take my land and give it to someone else, and my family dies of disease and starvation, homeless and broke?
It's not hard to do the math on just how many lives we've ended or destroyed while waving a flag of democracy and justice. I'm far from a sympathizer- I don't believe in blowing up innocent civilians or kids, no matter which side of the fence you are on. I'm just saying that I certainly see their POV and that I strongly disagree with our foreign policies in almost every aspect.
There was a day before the last election where most of the people around the world welcomed Obama, because they thought he was going to make peace, incite change, and make the entire world a better place. He had the backing of most of the world at the time he took office- He could have changed the world for the better and started laying out a real and viable path to peace. Nobody said it would be easy or fast, but change is change. Unfortunately for us, Obama was and is a fraud. He had been a well-disguised corporate shill, and the world is a worse place for it. Not that I think Romney is any different whatsoever.
yod wrote:Now it happens by executive order, the Constitution be damned!
Can't say I disagree with that. It's something Bush started and Obama campaigned against, yet continued and expanded. Do you honestly think Romney wont continue to expand and abuse the same powers?