Maddow's February 18 show concerning the Iraq war was a good account for those who did not follow the war at the time or the run up to that war. It is a story that should be told often so that America never forgets it was an unnecessary war, a war of lies and manipulation that took the lives of over 4400 American troops and wounded over 30,000, many who will never walk again without assistance.
Maddow's information concerning "curveball", "yellow cake", "mobil labs" and etc., has been known for several years now and is nothing new to the public who followed the war. Books have been written on the subject matter. The real story about the war was how the news media failed to do its job by failing to ask the important questions and because they let themselves be intimidated by the Bush administration. And of course they had the pro war military generals on their shows every night talking about Iraq's WMD.
This writer wrote a two part commentary over 5 years ago titled, "The Rosetta Stone To The War In Iraq dated 12/8/07 and 12/11/07 that was published here in "Politidose". I believe those two commentaries provide a more accurate account of the Bush administration's lies concerning Iraq's WMD, the alleged Al Queda-Iraq link and the U.N. inspectors in Iraq after the Gulf War of '91 and prior to the Iraq invasion of 2003. It is hard to believe that Maddow never even touched upon just a few items covered in those commentaries.
President Bush and V.P. Cheney did indeed commit an impeachable act with their lies and cover up and used our men and women in uniform to pursue a neocon un-American ideology. Our men and women in uniform go where the commander in chief tells them to go. They go without complaining, do their job well and obey orders and the President took advantage of the sacrifice that is required of them. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 was a real threat to our nation and President Kennedy answered the call with a policy that worked and protected our men and women in uniform and at the same time protected our security. The Iraq situation was a flea compared to the Cuban elephant and Bush failed the test of a true leader. His lack of courage and true leadership has already been written in the history books and our men and women in uniform paid the ultimate price over WMD that did not exist.
This post written by John Lucia
