Wolfowitz Owes Us:
If Wolfowitz still believes that the decision to go to war was correct and that more reconstruction money can still save Iraq, then this is a critical time to explain why. If he believes he erred, he should help us understand how it happened and why - and he should apologize, as a private citizen.Sonni Efron/LATimes/Common Dreams 23.Dec.06
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The mask is in the second phrase of the first sentence. There's no real connection between Wolfowitz believing the invasion and occupation was "correct" and his believing in the possibility of more reconstruction money "saving" Iraq. Except as that connection is offered to the public, along with the clanking string of fakery and misdirection this criminal enterprise drags behind it.
Given the ratio of lies to honest explanations there's no reason to believe any of the architects and builders of the Iraq/US nightmare. Yet there's a steady insistence in the public debate that they be challenged solely on the merits of their stated goals.
Saving Iraq.
This is because the unstated goal, the at least distinctly possible goal, achieved now - an unstable, fragmented, militarily helpless Iraq - leads directly to the questions "why" and "who".
Why was this a desired thing? So important that America's good name, and especially the worldwide reputation of its military, could be sacrificed.
Who benefits from this, the way things are?
Not the USA. The USA is now far more the target of terrorist rage, far less respected, far less economically healthy, and far more divided, ashamed, crippled with doubt and confusion, than it was before the invasion of Iraq.
Yet the confidence and certainty remain in the eyes and voices of the men who led us there.
Why?
Start with Wolfowitz. If his loyalties aren't to America, where are they?
