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For those of you with short memories...
There were some highly influential people who worked for months to convince us that
- Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction.
- If we invade Iraq our troops would be greeted as liberators (do you remember "roses and sweets....")
- Saddam Hussein worked with and supported terrorists
- Our original deployment of troops would be adequate
- Oil revenues would fund the reconstruction
- Our troops had adequate body armor
- It was NOT about oil, even thought the original name was the freudian-slippage Operation Iraqi Liberation (I'm not making that up)
- "5 weeks, certainly not 5 months..."
and the tallest of tall tales
- Mission Accomplished
Granted, it all worked out OK, but....
Those same people have told us that if we don't hurry up and give away a trillion or so dollars to Wall Street's Rogue's Gallery - our nation's most crooked and corrupt - then the world as we know it just might end soon. Kind of like this:
Dilbert.com 2008-11-08
The "hurry up and invade some country" set of, um, fibs - took months of hammering to convince enough people. This time it only took a few days. Same liars, same rubes.
I realize it's a bit late, but to quote our liar-in-chief:
"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
Labels: body armor, greeted as liberators, oir revenues, reconstruction, saddam, terrorists, wmd