The Neo-Con Runaround

In March 2003, Dick Cheney said, “My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.” In May 2003, George W. Bush said, “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” In November 2004, Lt. General John Sattler said that U.S. forces (in Fallujah) had “broken the back of the insurgency.” In May 2005, Cheney said, “I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.”

These yahoos have turned more corners than a monkey with a Rubik’s cube. Their quotes were not only repeated, ad infinitum, but were portrayed by the media as gospel truth. Yet, with unparalleled naïveté, there are those who constantly rail against the media for their bias in neglecting to report the “progress” being made in Iraq. Some even go so far as to allegedly troll for unbiased statistics on the Department of Defense Web site.

The justification “du jour” for the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, according to Bush appeasers, is the safety and prosperity of that country. Well, it’s nice to see that fictional accounts of WMD and Saddam Hussein/Al Qaeda links have finally been abandoned. How many lies can these Bush/Cheney sycophants swallow before they choke on their own gullibility? How many more American and Iraqi lives must be sacrificed on the altar of their ignorance? —Robert Baruch

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