Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Iraq. Ooops! Iran!

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040802&s=greiderweb
An Error of Supreme Dimensions
by William Greider
Not to risk blasphemy, but shouldn't a special commission look into whether
God provided the warrior President with faulty intelligence? Recall that
George W. Bush has confided to Bob Woodward that in shaping his plans for
invading Iraq he relied on advice from a "higher father," not on Poppy Bush
in Texas, the former President. Now we learn from advance news leaks that
the 9/11 Commission has concluded from its investigation that it was Iran,
not Iraq, that collaborated with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorists
before their attack on America. Oops. Have we gone to war against the wrong
country? One assumes it was not the Almighty who confused the two nations.
Maybe Bush suffered from a fuzzy connection in his prayer circuitry. So
close to God, yet so distant from the truth.
His mistake is not a joking matter, of course. It may be the most egregious
example of how Bush's pious self-assurance led the United States into an
ill-fated war with colossal misrepresentation of the facts. The 9/11
Commission's report will provide more details when it is released.
Meanwhile, the press reports that Tehran, not Baghdad, formed cooperative
relations with Al Qaeda some months before bin Laden's 2001 terror attacks
on New York and Washington. Iran gave safe passage to some Qaeda agents
exiting Afghanistan including several on their way to fly 9/11's highjacked
airliners. There's apparently no evidence to suggest the Iranians had
advance knowledge of the attacks on US cities.
But the obvious question is, What did the President know and when did he
know it? If these facts were known to US authorities before the war was
launched against Saddam Hussein, why was this information not shared with
the American public? Because Bush's warmaking logic would have been severely
crippled. He wanted to attack Iraq, not the better-equipped Muslim nation
next door. Alternately, why didn't the White House consider that Iran was a
far more plausible partner for the terrorists? Bush did name Iran among his
"axis of evil" but never swerved from the plan to launch "shock and awe"
against Saddam, a far weaker military adversary. Iran, as we subsequently
learned, was actually working on acquiring "weapons of mass destruction"--a
nuclear bomb.
The dimensions of Bush's historic errors continue to expand, the more we
learn after the fact. The official line characterizes these revelations as
unfortunate "mistakes" or "faulty intelligence." However, the pattern of
concocted threats and concealment of contradictory evidence suggests a
deliberate intent that fits quite snugly with Bush's own political
objectives. The "mistakes" all provide convenient support for his fateful
decision to make an unprovoked war. Our President may indeed be holier than
thou, but he should be made to answer for this here on earth.


Don't worry Iran is next.
Saluti Cad Ali'
--
Edward Luttwak, in un'intervista rilasciata al quotidiano Avvenire disse di
Saddam:
 "Quello non è come i principi sauditi, che si spendono gli introiti del
petrolio
 in champagne e donnacce a Parigi. Quello usa i petrodollari per costruire
ferrovie!
 Sta formando una classe di tecnici istruiti! Ancora pochi decenni e l'Iraq
rischia
 di diventare la prima potenza dell'area".


W. a Rumsfy.
Mapporkapu**ana, te l'avevo detto che stavano al 36b di via Asia
Minore ma tu no, a sfrancicarmi gli zebedei "E' il 36a, и il 36a!".
Tutta la famiglia sterminata e neanche un barattolino di mustard nel
frigo! Dai va lа, suona il campanello che si fa tardi.
Sммммм, pporkapu**ana, famiglia Khatami, co**ione!! Dai Khamenei t'ho
detto che ci andiamo dopo, fo***to idiota!

Chiudete tutte le distillerie di whisky del mondo, finche`siete in tempo
(...io, la mia, me la tengo nascosta in un atollo); basta un hiccup in un
discorso a cambiare una N in Q.
aaaarrrrgggghhhh !!!!
Giano