whose war?
May. 29th, 2004 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321This was in the Guardian on Tuesday. It appears that we have been going off to Iraq to fight Iran's war. What a nice piece of irony. It would make me laugh (it did) if it weren't so tragically absurd as well. It's an absolutely extraordinary bit of news, to discover that false information fed to the CIA by Iranian agents via an Iraqi source was at the root about all this hysterical lying about 'weapons of mass destruction'. The Iranians appear to have made these up, and like good little dogs, the Americans rolled over and did their dirty work for them.
It doesn't take much to dupe a super power, it would seem.
I am still bamboozled, though, about the ideological ramifications of all this. It makes the brain spin. And I still don't understand why. Why the US went, and why Blair went along with them.
It also makes you realise that a culture based on non-transparency (as are secret services) sets itself up for this kind of shit. If nobody knows who is feeding information to whom from whom and if the public are just being 'assured' that yes, there is a 'source', then we're living in Wonderland.
Hello, teletubbies. Here, have some machine guns.
It doesn't take much to dupe a super power, it would seem.
I am still bamboozled, though, about the ideological ramifications of all this. It makes the brain spin. And I still don't understand why. Why the US went, and why Blair went along with them.
It also makes you realise that a culture based on non-transparency (as are secret services) sets itself up for this kind of shit. If nobody knows who is feeding information to whom from whom and if the public are just being 'assured' that yes, there is a 'source', then we're living in Wonderland.
Hello, teletubbies. Here, have some machine guns.
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Date: 2004-05-29 12:55 pm (UTC)And I still don't understand why. Why the US went, and why Blair went along with them.
Don't be naive. Don't you recognize the function of scapegoats? The only reason the US governement "trusted" the information passed on to them was because they WANTED to invade Iraq. Bush Jr inherited an agenda by his father, and the personal profits for himself and other top members of his administration were enormous. What they're trying to do now is to present themselves as victims of yet another evil Arab country.
Don't forget that the UN field investigations reported NO sign of WMD. Don't forget that many European, Arab, and other leaders questioned the same "evidence" the American leadership eagerly accepted as authentic. Would the President of the United States "believe" a man who wouldn't survive a background check for the simplest job over UN experts, if he wasn't in search for an excuse to invade Iraq?
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Date: 2004-05-29 09:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-30 02:25 am (UTC)Dominance in the Middle-East (oil!) isn't a short-term gain. Besides, neo-cons are avid Zionists, so it's natural to protect their (Israel's) interests in the area. Ideology and gains have always guided politics and people's actions.
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Date: 2004-05-30 08:50 pm (UTC)faulty assets
Date: 2004-05-29 05:18 pm (UTC)Re: faulty assets
Date: 2004-05-29 10:03 pm (UTC)Re: faulty assets
Date: 2004-05-30 04:07 am (UTC)Re: faulty assets
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Date: 2004-05-30 05:54 pm (UTC)my country, tis of thee
Date: 2004-05-30 06:49 pm (UTC)