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Re: The Anti-Empire Report
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, November 2 2011, 15:05:48 (UTC)
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Every time an otherwise smart pundit writes something like...

"The Iraqi Lullabye
On February 17, 2003, a month before the US bombing of Iraq began, I posted to the Internet an essay entitled "What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?" concerning the expected war. Included in this were the words of Michael Ledeen, former Reagan official, then at the American Enterprise Institute, which was one of the leading drum-beaters for attacking Iraq:

If we just let our own vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to be clever and piece together clever diplomatic solutions to this thing, but just wage a total war against these tyrants, I think we will do very well, and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

After a year of the tragic farce that was the American intervention in Iraq I could not resist. I sent Mr. Ledeen an email reminding him of his words and saying simply: "I'd like to ask you what songs your children are singing these days."

I received no reply. "

....I get the dry heaves. Can anyone really believe that THEY believed this was going to work the way they told people it was supposed to? No one in government who was pushing for this war had any doubts about what it was really about....mistakes were NOT made. This guy with the song bullshit knew it was bullshit when he said it!



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