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06/15/2003 Archived Entry: "Bridges: 'Jeb is waiting'"
Bridges: 'Jeb is waiting'
The war to ‘liberate" the Iraqi people has now been exposed for what many of us knew it was all along—a power grab by a corrupt administration and a windfall for it’s corporate masters. Not only is the intelligence information that provided the impetus for this war being questioned, CIA agents are now admitting being pressured by Vice President Cheney’s office to exaggerate the threat that Iraq posed to the U.S. A Washington Post report from June 04, 2003, reveals an inordinate amount of visits by Cheney’s staff to CIA headquarters in the weeks leading up to the war. One agency source is quoted as saying the Vice President’s people were seeking a "desired outcome" from the analysts assessing the Iraqi threat.
With Cheney’s former company Halliburton long positioned to reap billions from every phase of the "coalition" invasion, the desired outcome was clearly war. Since Halliburton is still paying Mr. Cheney a million dollars a year in deferred compensation it appears there was too much money on the line to allow the truth to get in the way. After all, a million dollars a year has to buy something. The truth was divulged unintentionally last week by pentagon mastermind, Paul Wolfowitz, when he was quoted in Vanity Fair as saying: " The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason." That issue has so far proven to have been created with bogus intelligence, dodgy dossiers, and murky deception. No biological or chemical weapons have been found, and the nuclear threat the president shamelessly hyped has been discredited as pure fiction by both the British an American governments.
The core reason for deception is proving to be far easier to decipher: The administration used the events of 9/11 to illegally attack and occupy a sovereign nation for the precise purpose of controlling the "black gold" that sits beneath it’s sands. To illicit the nation’s support for war, the administration knowingly deceived the American people as to the threat Iraq posed. We can not separate these actions from those of any other country who has manipulated it’s people into invading a foreign land to gain a military or economic advantage--including those of Nazi Germany. While the administration was busy concocting a threat from Iraq, the perpetrators of 9/11, Al Qaeda, were busy attacking at will. While Bush Inc. awards his business associates with astronomically lucrative contracts without a bid, U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians, many of them children, are still dying almost every day. The newly "freed" Iraqi people still have a government in which they have no say and civilian protesters are frequently shot, thirteen of them on April 29. The difference of course is that Sadaam has been replaced with defense secretary Rumsfeld.
On the home front, the administration is acting very much the same; attacking your services with budget cuts while filling the pockets of the ultra-rich with your tax money. Think of it as the reverse of Robin Hood. As final insult, the "growth" oriented tax plan Mr. Bush issued on behalf of corporate executives will leave out millions of needy American children, children who’s futures have been mortgaged so that billionaires can keep more of the public’s trust. Americans surely don’t want a president who will send their sons and daughters off to die for corporate interest, while giving away their money to the same greedy monster. Go to the polls next November and stop this madness before it’s too late for all of us. And don’t let your guard down in 2008. Remember Jeb is waiting in the wings.
K.E. Bridges is a new contributor to Blah3. Reach Bridges via email at kbridges07@comcast.net.
