One More Time

1. "The thing that’s partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task." Dick Cheney on Lieberman's loss

2. "But clearly within the Democratic Party, it would appear to be that there are deep divisions. I think there’s a significant body of opinion that wants to go back — I guess the way I would describe it is sort of the pre-9/11 mind set, in terms of how we deal with the world we live in." more Dick Cheney on Lieberman's loss

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Why did the USA go into Iraq?

The Project for a New American Century comprised of long time right wing pro-war Washington insiders, such as Rumsfeld, Cheney, Kristol, Wolfowitz, Perle, Libby, Feith, Bolton, and such, issued their salient document known as the PNAC document in September 2000. The writers and signers of PNAC called for US intervention in Iraq, Iran, and Syria among other places. Their idea was to spread the so called Pax Americana to the Middle East at the end of a gun barrel. By their own admission, all that was missing in order for them to implement this plan was a New Pearl Harbor which conveniently and chillingly occurred on September 11, 2001. With the election of George Bush in 2000, many of the main signers of PNAC came into power as part of the new administration. As George Bush is notoriously disinterested in policy, PNAC agenda became official US foreign policy. After 9-11, the underhanded links were made in the media and a reason for invading Iraq, a long standing interest of the PNAC signers, occurred. We would avenge 9-11, find WMD, get Al Qaeda, etc etc. All of these reasons were in fact false: Saddam was not part of Al Qaeda, Saddam did not cause 9-11, no WMD were found. However one major objective was accomplished: the writers and signers of PNAC, men like Cheney, and Rumsfeld, got their long sought after wish, an ongoing military conflict in the Middle East to bring about the Pax Americana.

Addressing quote one: Lieberman lost because of his tacit support of the Iraq War. Al Qaeda was not in Iraq at the time of the invasion. Consequently Cheney is falsely linking Iraq and Al Qaeda again.

Addressing quote two: The Anti War movement views the war in Iraq as an atrocity that never should have occurred. As this war disintegrates into more and more utter chaos, there is no course to maintain in Iraq. The troops need to come home now. All of Cheny's unnecessary claims about 9-11 and such is again another attempt to falsely link 9-11 to Iraq.

Every credible and conceivable source verifies what I have written: No Links to Al Qaeda, No Links to 9-11. Why does Cheney continue to make false statements that mislead and misdirect the American people? This is a disservice and a dereliction of responsibility.

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