I was thinking back to what I said in my Busted post about not wanting to know anyone who thinks it is okay for the US government (and the British) to lie straight through their teeth to the world about Iraq. It was kind of mean. I don't like being mean, even if it is warranted. I think I was really angry. I think the thing that worries me is that there are so many people who do/did think that is okay. To me, that is despicable. It diminishes my trust and faith in the human race. I hate to be dramatic, but I feel like we've stepped backward, like we are going down a horrible path to meet up with some of the other horrible things that have come and gone in the world's history. The Holocaust comes to mind. Slavery comes to mind. How do you just go into someone's land and steal them? How could it have ever been okay to steal people?? What about the A-bomb. I have hated that part of history more than most others. My grandmother took me to see some animated film about Hiroshima in a planetarium once (I must have been like 10 years old). It showed what it was like when the bomb hit, it showed people melting and their shadows being permanently burned into the sidewalks. Those images have haunted me for years.
Anyway, I have been thinking about this issue since I posted it and after reading the comment from evolver. I have been thinking back to when Colin Powell presented all that WMD evidence to the UN Security Council. He did it with such conviction, and I think it was convincing. I listened intently to every minute of information that was broadcasted. How dare they make it look like the war was a last resort when it looks like they couldn't have cared less. I do hope this type of thing is just an anomaly...a glitch in the Matrix or something. And if the stuff in the Downing Street memo is true, no one in the current administration should be allowed to step foot on Capitol Hill or in the White House again. I've heard that some people think the 2008 election will be between Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. I hope to goodness it isn't, because I'm worried people will vote for Condi. Before, I didn't have much issue with her despite the fact that I disagreed with many of her party's views. I actually slightly admired her ability to be so glib no matter what she was asked. After this, I would almost feel worse about her being anywhere near the presidency than I have about Bush being the president now.
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I've read the cnn.com article about the memo and I can't say it's damning evidence. I'm upset about how things have gone, but the more I read (currently reading Bob Woodward's Bush At War), the more I feel that there wasn't outright lying. At least, not by the most of the top brass and certainly not by Bush. The article doesn't publish the entire memo or even give clear delineationb between what the memo said and what the Democrat's letter to Bush said.
Bush At War, so far is very good. It was made of many interviews as well as minutes and sit-ins on meetings. If anything that surprised me, was the claim that there was a neo-conservative group within the Republican party that was pushing the war. This seems to be true so far, because according to the book Rumsfield and his Wolfowitz were the main guys pushing for the war. The others all kept having to tell him, one thing at a time. In the Camp David meetings, it was Condi Rice, Bush, Cheney, Powell, against Rumsfield. Also, if Bush lied and was not mislead or mistaken; then you have to say that Britain, Germany, Russia, France, Spain, Italy, and George Tenet (I meantion separately because Clinton hired him) were all outright lying too. Also, side fact, Rumsfield and Bush Sr. do NOT get along. Bush thought that Rummy was trying to push him out of the CIA Director's position back in the early 70's.
-Bobby
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