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Secret Gov't Documents Will be Declassified 12/31

Posted by samzenpus on from the but-not-a-minute-earlier dept.

mozzwald writes "This New Year's Eve, at midnight on the dot, hundreds of millions of pages of U.S. government secrets will be revealed. Or at least they'll no longer be official secrets — it may actually take months or more for the National Archives and Records Administration to make those pages available for public consumption."

2 of 301 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What do they have to do with each other? by Guuge · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Every history book on the Iraq War is going to mention 9/11, just as every history of World War I mentions Francis Ferdinand. The plain truth is that 9/11 was used to stir up fanatical nationalism and loyalty to the central government, which set the stage for the abuses of power that led to the Iraq War. I'm not saying that 9/11 was necessary for Bush's plan; it was simply available. Similarly, the assassination of Francis Ferdinand was not necessary for WWI to ignite.

    I suppose comparing the Iraq War to 9/11 shows how we've become that which we despise.

  2. Re:Can't wait... by c6gunner · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    On the other hand, the war is a single product of a single administration and the entire US public's attitudes (apathy, ignorance?) towards a single issue. It's much more preventable; it's much more treatable.
    Prove it. Show with 100% certainty that the Bush administration is 100% responsible for the war in Iraq.

    Can't do it? Didn't think so.

    Fact is, using your logic, we could just as easily pin the war on Sadams initial invasion of Kuwait, or on Bush 1's failure to get rid of Saddam in '91, or on the Clinton administrations inability to force Saddam to cooperate, or on the Iraqi people's inability to get their government to act reasonably, or on the UN's inability to do...well, ANYTHING. In addition, you could also blame the vast majority of todays Iraqi deaths on:

    1) Muslim clerics who continue to stir up the populace.
    2) Foreign terror groups who intentionally target civilians.
    3) Iran and Syria, for funding the insurgency and the terrorists.
    4) Iraqi politicians/clerics who maintain their own personal armies.
    5) Corrupt leftovers of the Saddam era regime, who are currently trying to subvert the ING and IP forces to their own purposes.

    In other words, war is a complex business, and saying that it's "a single product of a single administration" is so ignorant that it shouldn't even warrant a response. Unfortunately, way too many people think (or fail to) the way you do.