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Powell Aide Says Case for War a 'Hoax'
PBS recently aired an interview with Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson (Ret), Chief of Staff at the Department of State from Aug 2002 - January 2005, addressing some of the skepticism surrounding the pre-war claims made by the Bush administration. Wilkerson claims in no uncertain terms that he "participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council." This is not the first time that Wilkerson has spoken out against the administration and intelligence community.
By "we all" I meant Slashdot.
The other reason Bush got re-elected was because he cheated again. You know, knock a few blacks off the rolls, call in favors from his friends at Diebold, that sort of thing.
The trouble is that the other half are the ones running the country at the moment...
You mean the half that wasn't involved in the unprovoked bombing of Afganistan during the Clinton administration? That didn't have anything to do with the problems we now face in the middle east does it? Or is it somehow different?
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I call shenanigans on this post.
no it's more like pushing the car, with the woman in it, off a pier then jumping in to save the woman. And then afterwards claiming you shouldn't be responsible or charged for attempted murder for pushing her in because you jumped in to try and save her.
This is news for nerds and it is stuff that matters.
Not everyone that reads Slashdot limits their interest to the latest PSP game or in making an XBox 360 run Linux. Frankly, these things are fun diversions, things that are interesting but not life-changing. The fact that our president and his henchmen sold us a bill of goods is far more important and interesting on a very different level.
I have no problem with Slashdot delving into this kind of stuff. Perhaps our community can find some way to fix some of the stuff that is broken!
no fly should mean no fly for everybody, right? :-)
While I appreciate a bit of silliness this certainly isn't it...
claim that the two main reasons given for war in Iraq (the breaking of WMD-specific UN sanctions and links between Saddam Hussien and al-Qaida) were a hoax. OTHER issues, such as the no-fly zones, slant drilling by oil companies in Kuwait into Iraq's oil fields, and the mistreatment of Kurds and Shi'ites all had inappropriate responses from Saddam Hussien.
I can almost agree to this. Either way, the current administration did site more than the WMD issue and that's what makes these debates laughable is that all the opposition to this can cry out is about the WMD issue. Why don't these same people speak up on behalf of those in the mass graves?
I still don't believe invasion was neccessary- two or three cobalt warheads would have done the job nicely in less time and for less expense, and more completely- but that is more about cowardice and a lack of truthfullness of the current administration than anything else.
It's diplomatic. I can't imagine the fallout (no pun intended) from something like this on the global political scale. Not to mention that I think the majority of the Iraqi civilians are well meaning people. But that's neither here nor there.
Nah- I've disliked US foreign policy in the Mideast since we failed to destroy Mecca in revenge for the OPEC oil embargo in 1971.
While it is a possible solution I think that we would have had bigger problems if we strongarmed our way into the middle east over such a thing. Overall I think that we do need to break from our current oil dependency but it's more of a consumer problem than a government problem. How can we rightously say we need to do something about the oil issue when we're still buying glorified station wagons that get about 8 gallons to the mile.
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Ok, you're an idiot. When, EVER, has a war been one by "killing them all?" I'm so sick of morons like you acting like that is a valid option. Genocide? We just kill everyone that doesn't like us. Cause I'm sure they have no reason whatsoever for not liking us.
Peace ONLY comes through negotiation. And since our current administration is just as clueless as you are, we're pretty much guaranteed to never attain peace. Hell, they don't even want it or they wouldn't have started the war.
Islamic Terrorists do not just want death and destruction any more than you do, moron. Have you ever met ANYONE that simply wanted death and destruction? They want us to stop FUCKING with their countries. Stop supporting "regime change" for whichever ruthless dictator that provides us with the cheapest oil and stop pretending like were some sort of morally superior world-guardian that is the definitive source for what's right. We have conducted so much evil in the middle east for so long, it has finally come back to haunt us. I'm sure the administration feels lucky that we have so many naive morons like you in this country that will believe that terrorist have no reason to do what they do aside from their pure love of death and destruction.
I agree that an idiot like you could never negotiate with the terrorist idiots. WE have brought this on ourselves with our foreign policy. Attempting to deal with it through violence only shows how morally bankrupt we are.
Religious faith is the problem, if you ask me; the idea that the invisible creator of the universe that talks to people in their head created a book and a hell to burn you in if you don't find his book compelling. The thing is, turns out he wrote several books and they all disagree. Well, I'm sure he just wanted us to "kill em all" to sort it out.
Ever stop to think that maybe some people who wish to harm Americans are reacting self-defensively to previous Administrations' wrongful actions against them? You solution for this is 10 eyes for an eye?
Well, actually, YES. Unlike Christianity, America is more heading down the road of Carthage- and if we don't modify ourselves to be more like Romans, we'll get pushed around by every two-bit terrorist who wants to make a name for themselves. Of course, the Roman Solution when faced with Jewish Terrorism was 500 lives for a life. If we're going to be the evil empire eating babies no matter what we do, just like Carthage was, shouldn't we play the part?
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
ironic that that he was popular with communists, since they are the biggest racket of all, when defined as what the general population thinks is not what is really going on, and that the great communist regimes have slaughtered uncountable lives to give the small, "inside" group power.
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... that the clueless morons at Slasdot are in the (small) minority.
I watch Brit Hume on Fox News