Josh Marshall interviews Peter Bergen on how the Bush Administration is trying to use the terrorist attack on the UN compound in Baghdad as the reason that we should have invaded Iraq in the first place: "They're yet again trying to bend logic and chronology into a metaphysical pretzel in which the failure of the policy becomes the justification for the policy."
Logic and causality don't need to make sense when it's all a sham anyway. Bush's motive in invading Iraq was to try to intimidate other Middle Eastern countries by having permanent U.S. bases to constitute an overt military threat and a place where the U.S could mount our own or shelter others' covert operations against neighboring regimes like Iran, Syria, Jordan, or even Turkey. The need for secrecy is the only reason we don't want to "share power" with the U.N. Having them there would prevent us from mounting the ploys that were the whole reason for the invasion in the first place. The rationales of "fighting terrorists" by attracting them to our "flypaper" in Iraq is completely bogus and only offered to placate the idiotic public.
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