A Tentative Strategy for Ending the War

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A Tentative Strategy for Ending the War
by Mike Whitney

“(T)he intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy.”
-- Richard Dearlove, former head of British M16

American leftists and liberals have failed to grasp the importance of Dearlove’s statement to Tony Blair and his top advisors in a secret meeting nine months before the invasion of Iraq. (Dearlove told Tony Blair that the US attack on Saddam would be “justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD.”) Yes, the information does confirm that Bush intended to attack Iraq from the very beginning without any compelling evidence of WMD or connections with al Qaida. And, yes, this does only reinforce what many of us suspected from the very onset: that the justification for war was built entirely on lies and demagoguery. Maybe that’s why so many people are dismissing the memo with a shrug of the shoulders like its yesterday's news. But, the Dearlove memo is much more than that. It is the first piece of incontrovertible evidence that a criminal conspiracy took place at the highest levels of government to lead the nation to war. It’s easy to understand why the mainstream media has concealed this story as much as possible. The circulation of this information has the power to erode public support for the occupation and end the war....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Whitney0510.htm

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1. To quote the Post........

"The circulation of this information has the power to erode public support for the occupation and end the war"....
We can only hope and pray it does. But who is going to clean up the mess, rebuild Iraq? What a worst case scenario!