Rising Hegemon
"The United States needs to go to war with Iraq because it needs to go to war with someone in the region and Iraq makes the most sense." Elsewhere, he writes: "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show we mean business."Oh the inanity managing not to eclipse the sheer cruelty. Turns out, that ACTUALLY was the policy.
A book written by New York Times reporter Peter Baker reveals the take of a senior official from former President George W. Bush's administration, who is quoted as saying that America went into Iraq to 'find somebody's ass to kick'.Well, that's comforting...knowing your most bitter cynical assumption about the Bush Administration turned out to be right. The rest, not so much.
[cross-posted at Firedoglake]
6 comments:
Umm, as I recall, the ""Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show we mean business" line was originally Michael Ledeen's (although it wouldn't surprise me that Der Pantload was approvingly quoting--or plagiarizing--another right-wing reactionary moron).
That aside, never let this sort of analysis deflect attention from the obvious. One need only contemplate the actions taken by the CPA after the invasion to see the actual intentions of Bush administration in prosecuting that war.
I think you're right Montag, but Goldberg was just as repulsive. I think smirked out "give war a chance," and then admitted he was too spoiled and too much of a coward to actually serve.
Didn't Kissinger also belch forth something like "we invaded Iraq because Afghanistan was not enough"? I think so...
Anonymous sir, are you implying Jonah's rightful place was among the cannon fodder!?!
That just isn't how things are done, in his circles.
They should've drafted Jonah into the chemical weapons squad.
He's such a fat ugly bastard I'm sure his farts could have cleared out all the caves in Afghanistan.
I had a co-worker (a Quaker!#!@!) say something similar at the time, "Well, we've gotta attack somebody "
They have no idea what monsters they are.
'because' doen't sound like a reason.
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