Democracy Be Damned-Repubs NEED Another War-Just Like They NEEDED Iraq

kpete

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Tue Apr-11-06 02:46 PM
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Democracy Be Damned-Repubs NEED Another War-Just Like They NEEDED Iraq

Edited on Tue Apr-11-06 02:47 PM by kpete

Democracy Be Damned - Republicans Need Another War
by Thom Hartmann
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As Governor George W. Bush told Mickey Herskowitz

"One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as commander in chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."

Bush's determination to invade Iraq to gain "political capital" even before he was appointed to the Presidency in 2001 was first laid out in an article by Russ Baker, who extensively interviewed Herskowitz. Baker noted:

"Herskowitz said that Bush expressed frustration at a lifetime as an underachiever in the shadow of an accomplished father. In aggressive military action, he saw the opportunity to emerge from his father's shadow. The moment, Herskowitz said, came in the wake of the September 11 attacks. 'Suddenly, he's at 91 percent in the polls, and he'd barely crawled out of the bunker.'"

Oil, to the Republicans, would be a nice bonus. And let's not forget those profits for Halliburton and other big Republican contributors.

But the main reason Bush invaded Iraq, it turns out, was so Republicans could take back the US Senate in the election of 2002, and in the hopes that Bush could finally win an election in 2004.

Apparently Bush is now prepared to do the same with Iran - or at least rattle the sabers loudly enough to convince the world he intends to - for the same purpose. Political capital. Hold on to the Republican majority. Prevent investigations of the many crimes of his administration by denying Democrats the power of the subpoena that comes with a majority in the House or Senate.

And - unless Democrats in Congress and the American people stand up and speak out - in the process Bush and his Republican enablers may just bring about the end of the great American experiment in democracy.

more at:
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0411-20.htm

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Speck Tater

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Tue Apr-11-06 03:20 PM
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1. People are getting so fed up with his lies and his wars...

If he invades Iran that will spell the end of right wing control as the people turn on him and anyone remotely associated with him.

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leftchick

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Tue Apr-11-06 03:22 PM
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2. It won't work

sadly a lot more people are going to have to die for politics and oil. Again.

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