Letter to the editor: War's costs include lost opportunities

X Chambersburg Resident wrote:

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I never said that I agreed with Bush's decisions...but to say that he lies all the time? Well, using that line of thinking when someone feeds you information, I guess every time you are wrong then you lie...
Again...all I see/hear is "Republican EVIL, BAD, etc. etc. etc."

X Chambersburg Resident wrote:

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You're right...I have leaned one way or the other...but not all the time. The people on here that have no credibility (in my opinion) are the one's that blame the Republicans for EVERYTHING, and claim that the Democrats are the countries savior!!

X Chambersburg Resident wrote:

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I didn't agree with you that it would help the insurance corporations a..... Clinton did nothing....

Andy Johnson wrote:

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I'm not after the racist sociopathic killer vote. I'm after the I-don't-want-to-live-in-a-fasc ist-police-state-ruled-by-homi cidal-maniacs vote.

falasha wrote:

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Why do we need to LISTEN to the republican side? We are living with the fallout of the republican side. We don't have to wonder what would happen if republican ideals were put into action. We know! We are where we are today because of republican ideals. We are in the shitter.

Florian wrote:

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I think I remember Hillary and Bill trying to do a major reform of health care. As I recall she was naive about it, and got hammered like a 10 penny nail.
I did not vote for her and she’s not my favorite person, but I do think she deserves credit for trying to reform health care.

Florian wrote:

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I think I remember Hillary and Bill trying to do a major reform of health care. As I recall she was naive about it, and got hammered like a 10 penny nail.
I did not vote for her and she’s not my favorite person, but I do think she deserves credit for trying to reform health care.

Andy Johnson wrote:

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Evil is as Evil does. Torture and war crimes are evil. Bigotry and racism is evil. Spitting on the poor is evil. Freed and avaraice are evil. Wanting a fascist police state founded on militarism and imperialism is evil. Imitating the Nazis is evil. Evil is as Evil does.

X Chambersburg Resident wrote:

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True...this was tried in the first year of his presidency...but he had another 7 years to give it a try and didn't. It's a tough topic. I don't think politics is going to solve it on it's own when you're talking about private industry. That's how all corporations are. Sucks for the population...

UThink wrote:

There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a war. Indeed because most
people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to their people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only possible choice they can make. Eleven days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said
that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.
The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded State Department memo is the first piece of hard evidence and the strongest to date that the Bush administration manipulated and ignored intelligence information in their zeal to win public support for invading Iraq.

Florian wrote:

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For what it's worth I'm trying to not use the descriptor 'Republican' very much anymore. In particular I'm trying to find more accurate labels for the extremist minority within the Grand Old Party. So I'm using descriptors like neo-con and RWA. I have been criticized for that, but I’m going to keep trying.
Both parties have their extreme elements. Neither party is all one thing. I don’t like the neo-con philosophy, but I don’t think it is right to blame all Republicans for what a minority has done. So when I use words like neo-con and RWA, please keep that in mind

UThink wrote:

There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a war. Indeed because most
people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to their people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only possible choice they can make. Eleven days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said
that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.
The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded State Department memo is the first piece of hard evidence and the strongest to date that the Bush administration manipulated and ignored intelligence information in their zeal to win public support for invading Iraq.

Florian wrote:

Lil John says he hates all .orgs
http://www.dav.org belongs to Disabled American Veterans
Lil John hates Disabled American Veterans.

GOTCHA wrote:

OR;
Lie #6 - Weapons of Mass Destruction - Bush insisted that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction but his "evidence" consisted mostly of forged documents, plagiarized student papers, and vague satellite photos. The United Nations was on the ground in Iraq and could find nothing. After extensive searches Bush was finally forced to admit that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.
Lie #7 - Mobile Weapons Labs - Bush and his team repeatedly claimed that Iraq possessed mobile weapons labs capable of producing anthrax. Colin Powell showed diagrams of them at his speech before the UN to justify invading Iraq. These claims originated from Curveball, a discredited Iraqi informer who fed Bush many of the stories related to WMD. On May 29, 2003, two small trailers matching the description were found in Iraq. A team of bio-weapons experts examined the trailers and concluded they were simply designed to produce hydrogen for weather balloons. But, for over a year, Bush claimed these were part of Iraq's bio-weapons program. The expert's report was suppressed and only recently made public.[WashPost][ABC]
Bush wanted so much to convince people of the need to invade Iraq that the White House set up a secret team in the Pentagon to create evidence. The Office of Special Plans routinely rewrote the CIA's intelligence estimates on Iraq's weapons programs, removing caveats such as "likely," "probably" and "may" as a way of depicting the country as an imminent threat. They also used unreliable sources to create reports that ultimately proved to be false.[Mother Jones][New Yorker][Wikipedia]
By lying to Congress, Bush violated US Laws related to Fraud and False Statements, Title 18, Chapter 47, Section 1001 and Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Title 18, Chapter 19, Section 371.
Resources
"Inquiry into the Decision to Invade Iraq" by the Cooperative History Research Commons (Excellent!)
Chronology of Illegal War on impeachforpeace.org

Florian wrote:

Lil John says he hates all .orgs
http://www.dav.org belongs to Disabled American Veterans
Lil John hates Disabled American Veterans.

Florian wrote:

Lil John says he hates all .orgs
http://www.dav.org belongs to Disabled American Veterans
Lil John hates Disabled American Veterans.