As focused as we all are on the investigation--are they planning the BIGGEST DISTRACTION of all?
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In fact, at the same hearing where I took Dr. Rice to task for the Administration's many false statements and changing justifications for the invasion of Iraq, I was extremely distressed to hear her lay out yet another even broader mission for our soldiers -- to remake the Middle East.
Even more unbelievably, Rice insisted that rebuilding the entire Middle East has been the Bush Administration's mission ever since 9/11. Well that is not what Congress voted for in either the resolution authorizing force in Afghanistan or Iraq, and it is not what the American people believed to be our goal. The Bush Administration is trying to perpetuate yet another classic "bait and switch," because Congress and the American people would never have supported an open-ended mission to remake the entire Middle East if the President had made his true intentions known up-front.
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http://www.barbaraboxer.com/diary?id=0029This appeared on dKos:
As most of the political focus is on a series of indictments and charges over leaks and treason as well as nominations for the highest court in the land, we must never let our attention stray from the machinations of those in power. And quite frankly, I am becoming worried about those who wish to further beat the drums of war.
It seems like an eon ago but in 1997 a movie named Wag the Dog got the nation's attention with its theme that concocting a war is one of the most effective methods of distracting public attention from the deficiencies of the president, as well as unifying public support. While the movie is often connected to the Clinton administration and the Lewinsky scandal, it was actually based on a book that specifically made parallels to the George H.W. Bush administration.
With poll numbers plummeting for both the president as well as his "war" in Iraq, you might think that starting another war right now would be both foolhardy in a political as well as financial sense. But desperate times call for desperate measures. Just how close are we to a war with Iran?
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/10/19/14372/445