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At Last

Posted by Harry Haller |  

Want the real reason the United States and Great Britain went to war in Iraq?

The New York Times has the definitive answer. Weapons of mass destruction? Don’t you believe it.

This entry was posted 18 June 2008 at 10:10 pm in the Uncategorized category. | | Permalink |

3 Responses to “At Last”

  1. Jim on June 19th, 2008 10:09 pm

    My initial response was, “Duh.” And I mean that in the most profound way.

    I’m one of those rare people (I believe you may be one too) who has been against this war from the very beginning. While most of my (our) peers were looking for something to bomb and a reason to do it (e.g. “weapons of mass destruction”), I wanted the Administration to tie our invasion into Iraq to the people who knocked down the World Trade Center buildings.

    You put those two together and I would gladly give my imprimatur for invasion, bombing, whatever. No one EVER tied the two together to my satisfaction.

    Well. Fuck.


  2. Harry Haller on June 20th, 2008 2:54 am

    Most folks who opposed the war from the outset plainly felt it was about oil. U.N. inspectors on the ground were saying they couldn’t find evidence of weapons of mass destruction, and certainly none that might affect the United States directly. And even a cursory scan of the September 11 perpetrators’ nationalities (and a trace of the money backing them) would have led to an entirely different set of oil fields. But this is the clearest indication from the most reliable source so far that connects the dots between the war on the people of Iraq and Big Oil.

    “Duh” moment was a perfect way to describe how I felt when I first read the story.


  3. bobbi on June 20th, 2008 7:52 pm

    … yeah …