I've been on Mudcat for a fair length of time now, and never before have I come across such a conglomeration of "America right or wrong "
guff. It is glaringly obvious that if the political establishment in the USA declared tomorrow that the Moon belonged to the US, it would be taken as Fact by the likes of Teribus, Doug R., et al.. Can't all you red-white and -blue wavers from both sides of the pond get it straight? You were LIED to. You are STILL being lied to. Doug R.---in another, similar thread I note that you expected dissent from the "naysayers". A touch of sly wordsmithing to deflect any such dissent?
The truth is---and you all do know it---we were all told that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction", and you Americans were also fed with the crap which assured you that Iraq was a "threat to the security of the USA". This was a statement, by the way, that Bush and co HOPED was true. They based their babblings on the fact that it was they themselves--along with Britain, France and some others---who had been the suppliers of such "weapons" in the days when Saddam was seen as a buffer between Iran and the oilfields. What the UN inspectorate ascertained was that all such weapons had, indeed, been destroyed, and there was no substantial attempt being made to acquire more. That the UN is now trying to renew some kind of co-operation with this abominable "coalition" [read "Uncle Sam and his toadies"]in trying to retrieve something from the wreckage they have created speaks volumes for their concern for the people of the Mid-East--and of the World.
What has happened over the last two or three days is nothing more than pantomime and farce for the benefit of the aforementioned flagwavers, and for those who are sick of blood and destruction and will grasp at any straw which seems to offer hope. Not much hope, by the way, for the Islanders of Diego Garcia , who were removed forcibly from their home prior to the first Gulf "war" in order to make way for the American Military. Robin Cook [ no favourite of mine!] as British Foreign Secretary "re-instated the right" of this people to return to their homes. The Bush-Blair fiasco put a stop to that, and they still are exiled from their home. Small wonder that Cook resigned from the mangy pack. There will be a US military base on Diego Garcia till the cows come home, and the biggest American "embassy" on Earth will last just as long in Baghdad---if the Iraqi resistance can't get past the tanks,that is [or the oil runs out].. Saddam will get his come-uppance, if he really is going to be passed to the Iraqis. Those who really do have the weapons of mass destruction will not, sadly.