Republican chickenhawks have their own occult profit motives.

Maybe the stupidest of the bunch.

Had I been sitting there I would have asked the same question. Isn't that what our press is supposed to do? In a time when the press have transitioned from watchdog to lapdog, Helen was one of the last burning embers of truth seeking.

They detested her.

She was too bold in pursuit of truth for the comfort of the one%.
I miss her and Molly Ivins and Hunter S. Thompson.

Here is the answer that Dubyuh could not give because it would open a can of worms starting with the OPEC Accords and the beginning of the end of democracy here in the United States:
[link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare|

If you were baffled by foreign events beginning in the 1970's then this should be an eye opener.
[link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_world_oil_market_events_%281970%E2%80%932005%29|

I always believed that he was generally led to make the decisions that he did.

Junior: "Blah blah blah."

Helen Thomas had more courage in her little finger than any of the chickenhawks in the Bush-Cheney cabal had in their entire bodies.

NONE of the rationalizations for invading made sense, EVER.

I still haven't been able to understand any reason, apart from profits for Halliburton and KB&R and the likes.

GW's response justifying the invasion of Iraq based on the Taliban's horboring of al Qaeda (in Afghanistan!) raises the question of whether he didn't understand it's a different country or was so accustomed to lying he thought it didn't matter.

It reminded me of a commentary in August 2003 after Bush made the following incredulous statement: