Watch your government at work currently. This is about the strangest thing I have ever seen in my short life…
CIA Says Iraq Drawing a Line on Attacking U.S.
The CIA is saying that attacking Iraq is a mistake. This is less important for that particular stance than the fact that it exposes another side in what apparently is becoming quite an internecine struggle in the US government.
VERY VERY strange.
Want more? The latest issue of Harper’s has a really good article that will make a lot of what is going on currently much clearer.
“A plan for the United States to rule the world” is what David Armstrong, an investigative reporter for the National Security News Service, finds in three editions of the Defense Planning Guidance, a document masterminded by Dick Cheney when he was defense secretary under George Bush Sr., and now seen as the answer to the realities of the post-September 11 world. “The overt theme is unilateralism, but [the document] is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion of friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.”
I highly recommend it.
Anyway, while I’m here talking politics as I never do, I may as well clear it all out of my system and add that every time Bush uses the alleged fact that high level officials in Iraq had contact with high level members of al Qaeda as one in a list of reasons to invade, all I can think is whether that means we’ll be invading ourselves next. We’ve had contact with both groups, hell, they wouldn’t exist if we hadn’t supported them to begin with.
Yeah, I’m done, don’t worry. Except to cast my strong vote that we refer to the upcoming inevitable attack on Iraq as Gulf War 2: Electric Boogaloo.