Before you get too excited... this diary is not concerned with disputing the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report. In one sense, it would hardly make a difference even if the Towers had been brought down by Dick Cheney personally remote-piloting the planes from his famous undisclosed location. The victims would be no more or less dead. [And - as Noam Chomsky observes - the attacks pale in comparison with the crimes of which Cheney has publicly boasted.]
And in another sense, Cheney and Al-Qaeda are just opposite sides of the same coin. Imperialism begets terrorism. To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. I do not mean that the victims "deserved it". They did not. I mean that, despite what we are bullied to believe, the killers did not emerge from an historical vacuum - and were not motivated solely by some intrinsic personal evil. These monsters were at least partly of our own creation.
So why the title? Because the nation's grief and rage were carefully manipulated to gain its support for the largest war crime of our still young century - the invasion of Iraq. [And with such fearsome success that significant numbers still believe it was behind 9/11.] And because the masters of war are still cloaking their machinations behind it.
This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which Al Qaida would plot to kill more Americans.
So this is not only a war worth fighting; this is a -- this is fundamental to the defense of our people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Would you believe this coming from Dick Cheney? Or John McCain?
Will we believe it from Barack Obama?
Will we get fooled again?
a misguided invasion of a Muslim country that sparks new insurgencies, ties down our military, busts our budgets, increases the pool of terrorist recruits, alienates America, gives democracy a bad name, and prompts the American people to question our engagement in the world.
Barack Obama on the Iraq War
http://www.chris-floyd.com/...