by Author Name Withheld 198

Created on: January 18, 2009   Last Updated: October 28, 2011

According to the politico, Dick Cheney, the man who makes Reinhardt Heidrich look like Mother Theresa, defended the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq in March 2003, claiming that then-President Saddam Hussein had "every intention" of resuming production of weapons of mass destruction once United Nations sanctions were lifted. And I thought you couldn't teach old pompous chickenhawk war dogs new tricks?

Former White House Adviser Karl Rove said last week that if pre-war intelligence on the Iraqi WMD programs had been accurate, the United States likely would not have entered the war. But asked about Rove's comment during an interview with ABC News Monday, Cheney said "I disagree with that."

When the famously unrepentant and not-so-little devils helper begins showing signs of being human and you disagree with that?

The American people overwhelmingly, 64 percent in fact, strongly believe that the invasion was a dire mistake. Indeed, the Bush Administration flouted the rules of international law to overthrow Saddam because he was an impediment to the neocon vision of American Military Hegemony. Naomi Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine", brilliantly articulated our exploitation of Iraq in what is known as disaster capitalism.

We now know that the multiple rationales used to justify the initial invasion were completely fabricated if not downright false. What began as an external threat to America soon became a exercise in neocon nation-building set to Straussian thought. The complete and utter misguided belief that western ideas could be so easily applied to a nation with a deeply non-western past proved to be quite evident, as ethnic/religious factionalism and al-queda took hold.

While it has not been officially stated, it is palpably obvious as depicted in books, media and film the driving force behind President Bush's decision to go to war seemed to be out of a Shakespearean fight between President Bush and Bush Sr. We now know all about the incompetent planning and short termism from "it's a cakewalk to low troop levels. These amoral, Machiavelian monsters wrongfully sold the war as a nuclear threat (IE, "The Mushroom Cloud") to the United States; they twisted language and the truth like an American officer at a black-op torture camp. To still believe in this patent balderdash means you don't want the American Enterprise Institute, Lockheed Martin, or Halliburton to kick you off the payroll.

With all the facts and information that has been out there for years, which roundly debunks all the shining lies about the lead-up to the war and the occupation, why are these neocons still justifying their crimes with flagrant audacity? The answer is simple: rather than admit to their failures they'll simply re-write history. After all, it is widely known that the winners are the ones that write history. Any admittance of failure might accidentally result in the truth being read years from now.

I sincerely hope that this horrible act of aggression will not go unheeded, and that Bush, Cheney and company are all put on trial for war crimes. If that doesn't occur, then any Iraqi or American that lost loved ones as a result of this foreign policy disaster should be allowed to collectively throw their shoes at these despicable men. Make that golf spikes.

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