"I've sat in total grief for the past three years, watching the institutions of America being spent as if they were lottery winnings.
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As I said, a UN vote would not stop GW Bush from attacking Iraq. Nor will anything else. And weapons of mass destruction will be discovered in great quantities; but the entire affair will stink to high heavens because it will be as staged as the White House press conference you just viewed.
The human death toll will publicly not be mentioned, yet in truth, it will far exceed 120,000. Our vast size and force will quickly break the back of any Iraqi resistance, yet we will not break their spirit. This is a society which has learned to live in troubled politics. They will go about their business while seething inside. There will be small uprisings, but they will quickly be crushed. The emotion and anger that we will have built will spill over into other countries and meld like an alloy with other problem areas of the Middle East, becoming a deeper seated problem. We will have insured that America's dynasty is nearing an end.
While GW Bush will be cast as a conquering hero by his political team and accepted by the population as such, history will treat him as Napoleonic. Bush will reach a new lofty level of acceptance by first fear and then staged triumph. Those who waited too long to gain their voice will lose their voice again.
America will over pledge economically in order to establish this new footprint; but the economic worth will not go to offset our fiscal investment, or to the Iraqi people. Iraq will be stripped by the vanquishers; the major corporations, who will then control not only the assets, but the cash flow. Their names will be Mobil, Exxon, Halliburton and the likes." - Bill Burkett
A military genius who changed the entire course of history?
got a source for that burkett quote, which is dynamite as far as motive goes?
Interesting, too, to contarst the obvious venom in that quote with Newsweek's description of him as a straight-arrow whistleblower type.
I wonder if this wasn't what Susan Estrich was talking about in that horrid column she did last week.
In a piece headlined "Doubts raised on Bush accuser--Key witness disputes charge by Guard retiree that files were purged," Globe staff reporter Michael Rezendes notes: "But a key witness to some of the events described by Burkett has told the Globe that the central elements of his story are false….George O. Conn, a former chief warrant officer with the Guard and a friend of Burkett's, is the person whom Burkett says led him to the room where the Bush records were being vetted. But Conn says he never saw anyone combing through the Bush file or discarding records."
Sheesh. This guy is a little confused about the identity of the enemy. I wonder if he sees monsters in his closet?
In today's world, would Bill like the US to do, pray tell? As the world's only superpower, we have to wield that power or die as a nation. Would he RATHER we hand over the keys to the front door to our pals, the UN? Like it or not, this is America's time. We can't all move to Mars, so the world is stuck with us, and we will act in our own interest and continue to be the most generous and decent nation this earth has ever known.