Saturday
Oct162004
Saturday, October 16, 2004 at 03:27AM
The so-called "war on terror" was lost the moment George
W. Bush was appointed to the presidency by the Supreme Court. Of course
at the time nobody could foresee what the fraud in Florida would help
set free. At that moment the clandestine inevitability of the invasion
of Iraq became a certain reality whose consequences we will absorb for
the next several decades. True, 9/11 had yet to happen, but already
fixations with Saddam Hussein were metastasizing throughout the
self-righteous Bush administration. 9/11, more than anything else,
became, politically, the perfect excuse needed to drag America into a
war that had already been preordained by those with axes to grind,
scores to settle, empires to expand and profits to make. The
dubiously named "war on terror" was lost the moment the cabal of
neoconservatives usurped power in Washington, descending like a flock
of vultures from their warmongering flight. At that moment delusion
morphed with ideology, ignorance fused with zealotry and the
neoconartist dream of an Iraqi invasion, already having been trumpeted
for years, was put in motion. Pushed forward by those wishing to fight
Israel's enemies using American financial and military might, the Iraq
war was born in dogmatic democratic delusion, historical and cultural
ignorance and in criminal apathy for the over 600 American soldiers
sent to die for causes having nothing to do with fighting for freedom
or democracy or for fighting terror. [more ]