Like people writing their angles on Terrell (I tried to find a link for you to a Sports Guy story about this, but oh well the link seems broken) I want to give you a fresh angle on this Iraq shit we are now stuck in. This three thousand year old argument we are now intimately involved in.
So now, finally, and about a year plus late and an election short we are thinking, ‘Wait, hey, maybe we should investigate fully how the administration used intelligence!’ Congratulations, we all get a star.
The saddest thing to me though in this situation is: preemption. These leaders who obviously had an agenda that may or may not have had something to do with oil in the desert and a former CEO position at Halliburton decided and used intelligence not only to say that Iraq’s regime had MASSIVE weapons, but that they were going to use them. And they were going to use them on US! And it was going to be VERY soon.
It is a sordid tale from the start no doubt, especially for our finest still out in those sands. But the movie Minority Report keeps playing over and over in my head and reminds me, and I will remind you: these dunces don’t know nothing and certainly couldn’t tell the future. Hopefully something like this will never happen again.
So now, finally, and about a year plus late and an election short we are thinking, ‘Wait, hey, maybe we should investigate fully how the administration used intelligence!’ Congratulations, we all get a star.
The saddest thing to me though in this situation is: preemption. These leaders who obviously had an agenda that may or may not have had something to do with oil in the desert and a former CEO position at Halliburton decided and used intelligence not only to say that Iraq’s regime had MASSIVE weapons, but that they were going to use them. And they were going to use them on US! And it was going to be VERY soon.
It is a sordid tale from the start no doubt, especially for our finest still out in those sands. But the movie Minority Report keeps playing over and over in my head and reminds me, and I will remind you: these dunces don’t know nothing and certainly couldn’t tell the future. Hopefully something like this will never happen again.
