12-17-2005, 07:56 PM
Occhi,
You seem to be missing what it is we find so appalling about this whole affair.
This could have been a mistake. It wasn't. It was a scenario contrived to scare and delude the people of your nation (and the rest of the world, albeit unsuccessfully) to support a war for geopolitical gain.
It's all right there, on PNAC's agenda. They wanted to invade Iraq. They wanted a trigger event that would give them some justification. They didn't care what the truth was, only what was convenient.
This was a sham. Intelligence was not misinterpreted, it was misrepresented. Deliberately. There were plenty of people, including those in the intelligence community, who were extremely skeptical of the notion that Saddam was any kind of serious threat. They weren't just ignored, they were silenced.
Intentions are at the very heart of this. And it was Bush and co's *intention* to invade Iraq, regardless of the legality, regardless of the cost, regardless of the long-term concequences. What the intelligence said only mattered insofar as it could be converted, often by mangling it, into propaganda.
And that is infuriating.
-Jester
You seem to be missing what it is we find so appalling about this whole affair.
This could have been a mistake. It wasn't. It was a scenario contrived to scare and delude the people of your nation (and the rest of the world, albeit unsuccessfully) to support a war for geopolitical gain.
It's all right there, on PNAC's agenda. They wanted to invade Iraq. They wanted a trigger event that would give them some justification. They didn't care what the truth was, only what was convenient.
This was a sham. Intelligence was not misinterpreted, it was misrepresented. Deliberately. There were plenty of people, including those in the intelligence community, who were extremely skeptical of the notion that Saddam was any kind of serious threat. They weren't just ignored, they were silenced.
Intentions are at the very heart of this. And it was Bush and co's *intention* to invade Iraq, regardless of the legality, regardless of the cost, regardless of the long-term concequences. What the intelligence said only mattered insofar as it could be converted, often by mangling it, into propaganda.
And that is infuriating.
-Jester