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It all starts with a history revision in W’s mind. Wrong information, others were clamoring for invasion of a sovereign nation, etc. What we don’t really know is if W was involved in letting 911 happen so that he could be a wartime president. Did he know that we were on the cusp of this disaster and did nothing to prevent it? That’s a possibility. I can see Dick Cheney rubbing his hands in glee and buying more stock in the war industry. After all it is quite clear that Bush and company rushed to get ready to invade even as millions around the world protested, asking for more time to investigate. In an interview with Dan Rather, Saddam stated flatly that there were no WMD in Iraq and invited inspection.
All of this and other speculation is now water under the bridge. We know that Bush et al. lied to the American people, rushed to war thinking it really would be over in days or weeks, probably deluded themselves into believing they would be greeted as liberators and that oil revenue would pay the tab.
The question that Ms. Walsh doesn’t ask is this: who is going to hold this gang of thieves and con artists responsible? Who is prepared to see justice done? Our nation will never heal as long as these people go into comfortable (and rather privileged) retirement. Worse the citizens of the United States will have condoned all of this criminal activity, but unlike the Germans after WWII we can not pretend we didn’t know what was going on. We’ve seen it on television and in the newspapers, on the radio and the Internet every day for years.
