Bush cites diplomatic path with Pyongyang. The striking part of the news conference is this outburst: ”You said we’re headed to war in Iraq,” Bush said. ”I don’t know why you say that. I hope we’re not headed to war in Iraq. I’m the person who gets to decide, not you.” Is this a lying fool, or what? Boston Globe The same puzzlement is on everybody’s lips in attempting to follow Bush’s logic. Iraq may have WMD and is not meeting our expectations for cooperation with the international arms inspection process. They have openly flouted international law. So we have to deploy force and threaten invasion and regime change to show ’em who’s boss. North Korea has WMD, has rejected monitoring, is announcing its intention to openly defy the US, and for Bush this clearly calls for diplomatic rather than military engagement. Oh, and if you don’t get the distinction, Iraq represents a threat to the US and the world economy
Yahoo! News whereas North Korea does not. Oh, and both are charter members of the AoI® (Axis-o’-Evil). Now I get it…
Related [thanks to Walker]: William Rivers Pitt, author of War On Iraq (with Scott Ritter) and The Greatest Sedition is Silence, available in May 2003, a high school teacher in Boston, MA., editorializes:
The Dead Remember: This country is headed to war with a nation we armed in the first place for a tidy corporate profit, despite the fact that there is no evidence that nation is a threat anymore. Beyond the tens of thousands of civilian deaths this war will bring to the people of Iraq, beyond the potential for hundreds or thousands of American casualties, beyond the vastly increased threat of stateside terrorism this will cause, yet another tidy corporate profit will be made. Simultaneously, corporations and our government collude to keep average Americans from being able to call to account those who poisoned children during 40 years of profitable manufacture of what appears to have been a neurological poison.
2001 was an abominable year, to say the least. 2002 was not much better. As we stride towards the brave new year 2003, a moment of pause should be taken. Is this the country you want? Is this the government you want? Is this the world you wish to leave for your children?
The New Year is meant for resolutions. Consider yours carefully, and keep it after you make it. truthout
