{"id":22292,"date":"2011-02-16T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22292"},"modified":"2011-02-16T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:19:46","slug":"so-where-are-the-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22292","title":{"rendered":"So where are the apologies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read yesterday about the admission by “Curveball”, actually Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, our main source on Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, admitted that his information was all bullshit. Of course, dicksmith pounces on this tidbit<\/a> like a dung beetle on a turd;<\/p>\n

Well, there you have it folks. The source of the intel that got us into Iraq, a conflict that has killed over 4,400 American troops, says it was all bullshit. Those weren’t just empty faces in camo sacks. Those were someones father or mother, someone’s son, someone husband, someone’s wife, someone’s daughter. And they all died, each and every one of them, over deliberate lies.<\/p>\n

I’m not surprised. We’ve known this for years. But there is something about hearing from the hourses [sic] mouth that makes me extra angry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, it’s probably pretty important to determine whether al-Janabi was lying then, or if he’s lying now. I mean when a liar admits he’s lying, you should figure when he’s lying, right?<\/p>\n

Secondly, IF the Bush Administration was victim of a lie, that pretty much absolves them of any responsibility for sending troops into Iraq. All of those “Bush lied” placards were wrong, since lying is different from being misinformed by intelligence sources.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, weapons of mass destruction were just ONE reason we went to war in Iraq. There were other things like Hussein massing his troops on the Kuwaiti border to rattle sabers for more than ten years. There were all of the potshots he took at our service members patrolling the skies over the No-Fly zone. There was the misuse of of the “oil for Food” program. There was the failure to cooperate with UN inspectors on an annual basis. Not to mention the 500 tons of uranium he had stored which we shipped to Canada a few years after the war began.<\/p>\n

But since the anti-war doofuses have chosen to ignore all of the other reasons we went into Iraq and cling pathetically to the WMD issue (while ignoring the WMDs we actually discovered in Iraq), it seems they owe the Bush Administration an apology for accusing them of lying.<\/p>\n

If dicksmith wants an investigation at this point, he should conduct one at VoteVets about all of things VoteVets has flatly lied about over the years since it’s founding. I wait patiently with unabated breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read yesterday about the admission by “Curveball”, actually Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, our main source … So where are the apologies?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}