The Lie of the Land

The evidence keeps piling up that W.'s war of choice in Iraq is exactly that: a war he chose to go into, rather than trying to avoid the conflict.

Robert Parry has a nice summary of recent developments.

For additional evidence, one might add:

• In 1999, Bush told the man who'd been selected as his official biographer of his intention to invade Iraq, in other words, W. had voiced this intent even before being Court-appointed to his first term in the Oval Office. He said he was interested in doing this so as not to be a single-term President. Unfortunately, it seems to have worked.

• Bush's epithet-riddled utterance about the Iraqi strongman, made Bush's position clear to Senators in early 2002, even while W. still pretended to seek a diplomatic solution.

• Once taking office, Bush immediately began looking for excuses to invade Iraq.

• Rumsfeld's immediate response to the attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11 of 2001, was to ask his staff about the possiblility of using the atrocity as a pretext to invade Iraq.

• By September of 2002, before Bush had any authorization from Congress to attack Iraq, and well before the "official" start of the war, the U.S. and its British ally had already begun a massive assault on Iraq. This also shows that Bush's supposed time that he began the war, was just as much a fiction as his "Mission Accomplished" 'end' of the war.

Click the links above, or do some research on your own into this, and you'll undoubtedly find much more evidence that supports the position of those who opposed the war. It's easy, and it's important.