In a question-and-answer period after his speech, Rove was asked whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war."I cannot agree completely, since evidence indicates that the invasion of Iraq was in the planning stages well before 9/11. However, when Osama got the memo, I'm sure he wrote the Arabic equivalent of "I love it!" in the margins.
"I think it was Osama bin Laden's," Rove replied.
The invasion of a secular government detested by Al Qaeda? A government that had never attacked the United States? A military action against Arabs that would make Bin Laden look like a prophet throughout the Islamic world? An action that would radicalize all Muslims and magnify anti-U.S. sentiment?
From Osama Bin Laden's point of view, what was there not to love?
My sources tell me that Osama wrote a follow-up memo:
My American friends: Here are seven "musts" for the post-invasion period..."Hey," said Karl upon receipt of the message, "Osama's got some great ideas here!"
1. Engage in wholesale theft of Iraqi resources.
2. End nationalized health care in Iraq.
3. Revamp the economy according to neocon ideology -- and never mind what the Iraqis themselves want.
4. Stir up sectarian violence; when you finally learn the difference between Sunni and Shi'ite, make sure to favor one side over the other.
5. Install ineffectual puppets and encourage anarchy.
6. Keep the electricity "iffy" for years and years.
7. Open up the weapons caches to make sure that any insurgency is armed to the teeth.
And half a world away, somewhere in Pakistan (or perhaps in Switzerland), Osama Bin Laden grinned and muttered: "Karl Rove. I love that guy!"
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You hit on a great point. What exactly are the motives of the White House gang in the Middle East. They 're so absurd that some analysts suggest that "chaos" is the tactic to aid the strategy of Middle East dominance.
I don't buy that. I believe that your literary vehicle here, a scary one at that, expresses the conundrum one enters when trying to decode the rational behind Iraq and the rest of the mess this gang has created. They do the wrong thing, time after time, and they do it poorly. One suspects that there must motive behind the tactics, some grand, evil conspiracy that will suddenly come to light.
We're left, after all of this, with the simple conclusion that the people in charge developing and implementing this failure on a grand scale and those who support it (a much larger group) are simply DUMB AS ROCKS.
They did exactly what was necessary to make us hated around the world and, in doing that, ironically, they have served our enemies. No conspiracy here, just TOTAL STUPIDITY.
Many of us knew this in advance, many spoke out but there was wide support for a policy that any marginally informed person would label TOTAL STUPIDITY.
They are the
Insane Clown Posse,
http://www.insaneclownposse.com
no doubt about it.
I believe the explanation is rather simple...instigate another crusade (as in the Crusades), and make a lot of money in the process.
John Dean (not logged in lol)
I think the goal is simple, and it has been expressed by Israel since the 80's, the balkanization of Iraq. Just like they did with Lebanon in the 80's.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/balkanization.html
ZIONIST VISION
The Zionist vision for the Middle East rests on two essential premises, Nakhleh noted. “To survive, Israel must become an imperial regional power, and, secondly, it must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states.
“The Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states will become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimization,” Nakhleh wrote.
“The idea that all the Arab states should be broken down . . . into small units occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking,” Shahak wrote.
“For example, Ze’ev Schiff, the military correspondent for Ha’aretz, wrote on June 2, 1982, about the ‘best’ that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: ‘The dissolution of Iraq into a Shiite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part.’ ”
“Ideally, we’d like to see Iraq disintegrate into a Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni community, each making war on the others,” said an unnamed Israeli official who was quoted in the July 26, 1982, issue of Newsweek.
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