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Originally posted by Spanky
Roosevelt told the country that he was doing everything to keep America out of the war to "protect our neutrality". At the same time he had US Naval ships escorting both US and British merchant ships that were taking war supplies to Britain. He did everything he could to provoke a confrontation in the Atlantic. He lied when he ran for office saying he would do everything to keep us out of the war because he was trying to come up with a way to get us in. His lies cost countless of American lives. However, I am glad he lied and I am glad he did what he did. Although I don't think Bush lied, I am glad he took us to war against Iraq.
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Why? Do you really believe the story that we're following a neocon plan to reshape the Middle East? Do you think we're not aware of the lessons the British learned trying that gig so many years ago?
Rumsfeld let the cat out of the bag the other day when he said off the cuff "We'll be fighting for a dozen years... But we'll be fighting OVER THERE."
The lie is 3 levels deep:
1. WMD - For rubes and kool aid junkies to believe;
2. Neocon plan - For conspiracy theorist dilletante foreign policy intellectuals and editors of Atlantic and Vanity Fair to write about; and
3. "Move the front elsewhere" - The too cynical to be baldly sold truth.
If democracy works, its an added bonus, but don't think we actually wen't there for that reason. And if you buy the "Saddam was a threat" story, you're hopeless. I don't mind the "move the front" plan. But the problem is they weren't even organized enough to manage that very well.
