[Vision2020] Revisionist history

[Ted Moffett]

Jim et. al.

The decision to invade and occupy Iraq was already planned before W. took 
office, as the Project For A New American century clearly spelled out, with 
signatories to PNAC now prominent in the Bush administration.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/

I think Bush really believes his decision making is moral and reasonable.  
And that he is plainly not very good at complicated analysis of political or 
economic issues.  I believe he's a front man being led around by prominent 
PNAC strategists and Pentagon insiders, among them Cheney, Rumsfeld, 
Wolfowitz, Perle and others.  I have heard the opinion that he exhibits the 
symptoms of dry drunk syndrome.  Thus the errors of fact and speech that he 
often exhibits.

But some take a more cynical view that he is privately laughing his head off 
at how far he is putting us on with his straight talking, man of action, 
tough guy, let's keep it simple, anti-intellectual, Texas Bible believe'n 
redneck pose.  That he in fact knows that he is often spouting BS, but Carl 
Rove and the Republican strategists advise Bush to speak as he does for 
effect.  There is a strong anti-intellectual bias in much of America, and 
Bush's malapropisms and misstatements of fact just enforce the impression 
he's no slick talking sneaky intellectual like Clinton.  He may get things 
mixed up every so often, but he speaks his mind plainly, believes in sound 
moral values, acts decisively, just like a regular cowboy, and so forth.

The basis for controlling public opinion to justify the Iraq war was 
emotional in nature, and had little to do with fact and logic.  Fear of 
terrorism was used and exploited and encouraged by W. Bush to whip the 
American public into acceptance of the Iraq war.  After all, that "mushroom 
cloud" image Bush used before the Iraq war to exploit the fears of the 
American people, based on lies that Iraq had a legitimate nuclear threat, 
worked like magic to legitimize the invasion.

All this current hubbub about the intelligence problems and errors of fact 
that came from the Bush administration in justifying the Iraq war I find 
bizarre, considering that all of this was clearly known before we invaded 
Iraq!  If this is the best that our media and press and political system can 
do to expose misinformation and out right lies used to exploit public 
opinion to manipulate acquiescence to war, we are in deep s**t!

I predict Bush will win re-election.

Ted

>From: wallis@moscow.com
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Revisionist history
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:25:20 -0700
>
>Straight from a George Orwell novel?
>
>Excerpt of a transcript of the press conference held yeaterday:
>The President (continuing...)
>"The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did Saddam
>Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely.
>And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he
>wouldn't let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we
>decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as
>to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our
>friends and allies in the region. I firmly believe the decisions we
>made will make America more secure and the world more
>peaceful."
>
>"And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he
>wouldn't let them in"?? This President accuses others of rewriting
>history? What world does he live in?
>
>Quote from
>http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030714-3
>
>Jim Wallis
>
>
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