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mrph ([personal profile] mrph) wrote2004-05-25 09:20 am
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The latest excuse for Iraq:

It was all Iran's fault, they tricked us into invading so that they could take control of Iraq afterwards... yeah, that's it...

Funny. I thought that Bush invaded Iraq because he wanted to, and because he thought Saddam was 'too dangerous' to leave in place. We've heard - many times - that the absence of WMDs doesn't change that. He was still 'too dangerous'.

So how can it suddenly all be Iran's fault?
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[identity profile] robinbloke.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Because those cunning Iranians tricked us, and manipulated the entire US of A. Which means, damn, we better invade them too for the honour of our whole country, after all they're trying to manipulate us, they're trying to make nukes and they're interferring in Iraq.
It will only take a few weeks to invade and a couple more to set up the democracy afterwards, don't worry.

[identity profile] mrph.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
I was thinking that... then I was thinking "but they couldn't possibly be that stupid, could they...?"

[identity profile] robinbloke.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Think very, very carefully about that question.

Aide: "Mr. President, the war in Iraq isn't going to work for your election, what we need is something to distract people from it."
Chimp: "Well, how about another wae, Iran's got it coming."
Aide: "Well we could fit them up for the Iraq thing, they're just next door so it wouldn't be that far to move the tanks."
Chimp: "Perfect, I'll be the hero of the middle east."

[identity profile] taoist-goth.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, interesting. Maybe once the US hands power over to the Iraqi interim government, they'll just roll a few tanks over Tehran on the way home. Sounds like a cost and time saver to me, eh? Jeez...

So the entire CIA and the world's most powerful nation were manipulated like pawns by some fat Iranian bloke. Laughable, but nowadays bizarrely.....expected. All we need now is for the yanks to torture Chalabi and get him to "confess" that Iran has the WMDs that the US thought Iraq had.

"Ouch, OK I'll tell you...ouch! We stole all the WMDs from Hussein...ow ow stop it stop it....yes we can launch the whole lot at the US and UK within 45 minutes....ooowwwwwwww!"

Well, after all, those pesky WMDs WERE in Iraq so MUST have gone SOMEWHERE, right?
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[personal profile] the_axel 2004-05-25 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
If they did, it may not be the first time US intelligence was fooled by a Middle Eastern Nations spies.

In fact, if there is any truth to the current claim it adds credibility to the older one since large bureaucracies rarely learn by experience...

[identity profile] jambon-gris.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
you should realise it was very convienent for US foriegn policy to be able to lay the blame for the bombing at the Libyans door, rather than say Iran based terrorists.
We want to attack nation X we fabricate some evidence. Off we go an drop bombs. Sound familair at all?
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[personal profile] the_axel 2004-05-25 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely, but it was even more convenient for Israel.

[identity profile] wechsler.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure Bush has learned his lessons in military intelligence and strategy - it's not the sort of thing you forget once you've figured it out.

Bit like riding a bike, really.

[identity profile] taoist-goth.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
So when Blair said he had "no doubt whatsoever" that there were WMDs in Iraq, what he meant was "My mate Chalabi said so, so it must be true".

[identity profile] deeply-spurious.livejournal.com 2004-05-25 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
This is all tragic of course, but it is also hilarious... I'm currently trying to work out which scenario makes the US govt look like a bigger bunch of idiots...

a) that Iran (or someone else) deliberately duped them - in which case they are a bunch of incompetent and highly gullible idiots
or
b) that without any help at all they managed to dupe themselves - in which case they are a bunch of incompetent and highly gullible idiots...
or
c) they knew there weren't any weapons but thought that it would be a good idea to invade anyway - in which case they are a bunch of imcompetent and highly gullible idiots...

I just can't wait until, eventually, someone decides to release Michael Moore's film in the US...

Please please let the American people awaken to the idiocy of what is being done in their names... Kerry might not be a saint, but please let them vote for him.
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