Via Maru Soze (link at sidebar) and doubtless lots of others, this article in the Independent stating why "The case for invading Iraq to remove its weapons of mass destruction was based on selective use of intelligence, exaggeration, use of sources known to be discredited and outright fabrication." Next revealing shocker: The sun will rise in the east! Some good quotes in it from Glen Rangwala, the Cambridge analyst who broke the story about the bullshit in that Blair "intelligence dossier" (that turned out to be "plagiarised from three articles in academic publications"). Rangwala notes that "much of the information on WMDs had come from Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC), which received Pentagon money for intelligence-gathering. 'The INC saw the demand, and provided what was needed,' he said. 'The implication is that they polluted the whole US intelligence effort.'" Ah, there you go, not our administration's fault at all that it lied, it's all Our Man in Iraq's fault that the liars believed him. That's very different, then; never mind! [/Litella]
Spending time in Robin's studio (where our computers are) blogging and reading others' blogs - okay, and playing Bookworm - to keep my inker-boy company whilst he works, and therefore listening to the randomized CDs on his two Sony MegaStorage 300's (yes, two, and they're both full-up and we have a 400 in the living room besides *sigh*), and Jackson Browne's "Lives in the Balance" came on. And I'd forgotten the lyrics, so of course it suddenly struck me how this could very well have been about the war in Iraq too.
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a goverment lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war...
On the radio talk shows and the TV
You hear one thing again and again
How the USA stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend...
They sell us the president the same way
They sell is our clothes and our cars
They sell us everything from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars...
If I had more drive I'd probably link up every single one of those lines with a recent header (the last one, for instance, easily links to any number of sources quoting White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card telling the New York Times last fall re: gearing up for the Iraq invasion that "you don't launch a new product in August"), but I don't so y'all can if you want. Scary, and tragic, how the more things change the more they stay the same.
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