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09-11
Americans are collectively suffering from an acute case of shell shock following the events of September 2001. On that day, four planeloads of unsuspecting passengers went down in the worst act of terrorism ever experienced in the history of the United-States. Some three thousand people died on the ground as result of that cold-blooded act of barbarity. Ever since, Americans have felt very sorry for themselves.
Most of the rest of the world and especially the Europeans joined the United-States in its grief and anger.
Russia alone lost an estimated twenty million citizens during World War II. All of Europe experienced two world wars. Those of us, who lived through similar tragedies, deeply sympathize with the victims of 09-11 in America. But what we refused to do, is to join in Yankee whining and complaining that their fate and suffering has been much worse and more painful than anyone else's could ever have been.
During World War II, one hundred German cities were wiped of the face of the earth. Not two towers, like in Manhattan in 2001. Entire city centers were carpet bombed out of existence by long years of sustained terrorism during allied bombing raids on innocent civilians. For instance: on July 27, 1943, large sections of Hamburg were completely destroyed by raf and us Eighth Army Air Force bombers in Operation Gomorrah. Hell broke loose at 01:00 a.m. when American and British planes began dropping ten thousand tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs on civilian housing in residential suburbs like Hammerbrook, Hamm-Nord, Hamm-Sud, Bilwelder Ausschlag, St. Georg, Eil-nek, Bambek and Wansbek. They were all reduced to ashes in 24 hours. A firestorm broke out which rose 2.000 meters into the sky. It consumed oxygen to such a formidable extent that air currents reached hurricane force. It lasted many hours and burned everything in its path. The next day smoke from the city rose 8.000 meters into the sky. No-one knew how many people had perished. This allied bombing raid alone produced a tidal wave of more than one million refugees. That is why the Germans, and other Europeans, will think twice before agreeing to bomb Iraq, or any other country.
09-11 caused a mass slaughter not experienced by the Americans since the Civil War in the mid nineteenth century, when the north and south were locked in a bloodletting struggle for domination. Hence, in 2001, an act of war hit the us for the first time in two hundred years. A stimulus response sequence occurred. This is unlearned and common to all species. It is relatively unmodifiable by motivational factors. Most American minds instantly produced the classic reflex, which occurs as a mechanical act and that lacks volition or choice. It is usually accompanied by primitive thoughtlessness. It also shows unreasonable impulsiveness. Such was the reaction of George Bush and a majority of Americans to 09-11. The president instantly declared a war on terrorism without any investigation or composed reflection beforehand. He presented the public with a fait accompli that was based on a blatant lie. He pronounced a
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guilty verdict for the crime without possessing or offering the slightest proof. Being the brainless amateur he is, he maneuvered himself into a position which left him no room for reality once additional facts and more information became available.
Bush immediately chose as the murderous culprit of this hideous 09-11 crime, Osama bin Laden, a former us ally in the erstwhile battle against Soviet imperialism in Afghanistan. In the Bush family it is not uncommon for one-time staunch allies being turned into unrelenting enemies. With 36.000 soldiers armed to the teeth father Bush invaded Panama in December 1989 ordering them to kidnap a former partner, the head of state, Manuel Noriega. Bush senior had him locked up in an under-ground Florida jail, never to be heard of again. The world remained silent watching the elder Bush behave like a pirate king. Once again, America, at the discretion of the White House, unilaterally extended the limits of politically and diplomatically acceptable behavior in world affairs. Junior Bush seems hell-bent on outdoing his father when it comes to matters of unlawful conduct in foreign affairs. He entered the White House as an illiterate on the subject of world politics. At least the father was a former ambassador, former cia director and former Vice-President. His ignorant son had never heard of bin Laden, the Taliban, or Afghanistan prior to successfully stealing the election from his Democratic opponent, Al Gore.
Since 15 of the 19 suicide pilots were Saudis, it seemed plausible that the Al Queda chieftain was indeed the man who had ordered the 09-11 attack. Therefore international public opinion, mostly outside the Islamic world, easily fell for the White House presentation of what supposedly happened. After all, President Bill Clinton had already fired several dozens cruise missiles at the Afghan mountains, where bin Laden was operating. As a matter of fact, years ago the Clinton Administration formally issued orders to the cia to find the elusive Saudi and shoot him point blank. Today's us Foreign Policy allows straight executions of suspected enemies. Israel hastened to copy this Mafia behavior against Palestinians. Antiquated norms like observing due process of law no longer figures in the minds of us-Israeli decision-makers. In view of this openly announced us decision to murder him, the attack of 09-11 could be explained as a pre-emptive strike by Al Queda, if we allow bin Laden to practice the same defensive measures as Bush. Or do we only allow Americans to do as they please? Throwing their weight around unopposed.
Junior Bush went mad after being attacked by what he interpreted as a terrorist strike against the United-States. How could irregular guerrillas in the Tora Bora mountains possibly get away with this? The punishment had to be swift and deadly. He told the public, that he was going to enter Afghanistan and get the bastard ‘dead or alive’. That was twenty months ago.
Bin Laden is a dedicated warrior. He leads an international resistance movement against us-Israeli imperialism. Scott Ritter, former un weapons inspector in Iraq (1991-1998), called the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive military action a form of unilateralism that reeks of imperialist power. The other Bush objective of regime change, Ritter called a direct American
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breach of the un Charter, which specifically prohibits regime removal. The moment that a us president signs a secret directive to kill Osama bin Laden, or anyone else, he automatically becomes liable to be classified as a classic war criminal. But, of course, the present gang of four (Bush, Cheney, Powell and Rumsfeld) is not aware of the fact that someone, some day, will indeed bring indictments against them before a court of law.
In deference for the smoking rubble in Manhattan on the Hudson, most of the world kept silent and seemed to understand Bush's need to let off steam by carpet-bombing Afghanistan in search of bin Laden. It must be recalled, that in the late thirties Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goring invented, and practiced thereafter, the massive bombing of open cities by big fleets of Heinkel, and Junker bombers accompanied by Messerschmitt fighters and Stuka dive-bombers. This amounted to the near total destruction of open cities killing hundreds of thousands. As a boy of 14, I witnessed the Nazi bombing of Rotterdam, resulting in the early capitulation of the Netherlands to Hitler. For years, we lay awake at night, as large squadrons of allied bombers began their nightly raids on sleeping German cities, crossing the skies of Holland. Washington and London replied in kind and organized their own flying armadas to repay the Nazis for their bloody sins. Americans should take into account what are the deeper psychological reasons for Europeans to be reluctant to take part in destroying this time Iraq.
The us revenge for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor came four years later when two atomic bombs, the first in human history, were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Almost a quarter of a million innocent Japanese burned to death in 1945. Few of us noticed that Washington had gradually copied Hitler's tactics forcing the surrender of Japan through mass murder. Whoever ordered four airliners to crash into the wtc and the Pentagon, they were certainly copying from both Hitler and Truman. Nevertheless, again, compared for instance to the ruins of Stalingrad in World War II, the collapse of the wtc in Manhattan was a minor rich man's disaster. Not to mention Hiroshima once more.
Yet, 09-11 became a welcome excuse for, what the Bush Administration considered a perfect right to declare some fellow members of the United-Nations ‘rogue states’, and others, ‘an axis of evil’ (North-Korea, Iran, Iraq). To the minds of the Bush clique, labels as ‘rogue nations’ made it perfectly legitimate for the us, if it so decided, and without further agreement from the un, to wipe them off the map. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wants permanent rapid response forces to go at any time anywhere at very short notice. This global cop unit could strike anywhere with or without the authority of the host nation. The us would provide the firepower. Europeans would provide ‘the soft power’, meaning, clean up the mess after the Yanks have left. Rumsfeld is quite neurotic, but most Americans assume he is a man of courage and a bold defender of basic us values.
Washington prefers political cover from Europe for its subversive actions on all continents. However, contrary to Bush I, the son decided, if needs be, to carry out his policy without un
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permission or without wide coalition support. Perhaps, Tony Blair managed to delay a war against Iraq by toning down the homemade Texan rhetoric of his friend George. But the gap between what the us, compared to Europe, contributes in the fields of military manpower, finance, technology and massive bomber or missiles forces, has long become unbridgeable. Accordingly, Washington is increasingly distrustful of Europe and reluctant to share its military might with anyone. Therefore America acts - as annalist Peter van Ham stated in a pamphlet on the future of nato - ‘more and more as legislator, policeman, judge and executioner.’
If the President of the United States in 2003 was an experienced statesman, well versed in international affairs, knowing his history and perfectly able to present himself as an intelligent, superior, well-educated person, this would add to America's current status of sole super-power. Instead, mankind is faced with a very ignorant hillbilly from the back of beyond from Crawford, Texas, who was trust into a role he is obviously totally unfit for. And the world feels and knows it. Such are the blessings of the us democratic election process. Any idiot, who is able to talk nonsense with a straight face and builds himself the right political network and scrambles sufficient millions, can run for the White House.
The present simpleton from Texas has uninterruptedly worked on the unilateral demolition of the world's treaties and agreements. He dumped the anti-ballistic missile treaty, he sabotaged the biological weapons convention, he rejected the Kyoto protocol on climate change, he opposed the un treaty on gunrunning and he withdrew from underwriting the international criminal court. Bush II is pulling away from the rest of the world and destroying international cooperation in doing so. According to The Guardian, this president feels that there is no point in possessing brute strength if you are not prepared to be brutal. Or, even worse, threatening anyone with naked military force, who will not listen to us demands.
Diplomacy Bush style means, that Washington is fully prepared to use ‘new bunker busting nuclear weapons’ in the case of war. Father Bush used one of the more advanced bunker busting weapons in 1991 on an underground shelter in Baghdad. I visited this place, where hundreds of women and children were burned to death. General Norman Schwarzkopf gambled that Saddam had been hiding there. America was simply testing the effects of the latest killing machines on innocent Arab civilians. The Saudi pilots of 09-11 were clever enough to use made in usA flying bombs.
For some of us, citizens of former colonial empires, and veterans of World War II, it is horrifying to note, that the 21st century again begins with elaborate Washington war talk. For instance, the latest sensors at the disposal of us bombardiers flying at stratospheric heights over Afghanistan were picking up unusual noises. To play it safe the pilots dropped bunker busters unaware of the fact that they were hitting an Afghan wedding party. This happened not once, but repeatedly. For the American public and media, tragic events like these are but footnotes to history. The latest trick to soothe the conscience of us or Is- | |
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raeli war criminals is to call the loss of hundreds of women and children in a Baghdad shelter or a massacre at Jenin in the occupied Palestinian territories just ‘collateral damage’.
It is hardly surprising, that persistent incidents of this nature, perpetrated by America and Israel, are beginning to cause serious opposition resulting in the largest worldwide antiwar demonstrations ever seen. The conscience of humanity is beginning to resist this high-handed warlike us-Israeli behavior. Why do Americans and Israelis assume they can impose their will on others with methods belonging to the dark ages of imperialism? That is why the world is now faced with countless resistance movements figuring out ways to strike back at both the us and Israel for what they have been doing to others for over half a century. That is the only reason why America experienced the 09-11 disaster. That is also the reason mankind is lately experiencing the heroism of suicide bombers. How do people resist the most automated war machine in history but with their bare hands and bodies?
In today's Washington they even grace the Lord for never having signed a nuclear test ban treaty, because it enables the White House to draw the Harry Truman nuclear card, if need be on Iraq, Iran or North Korea. Attending a security conference in Munich, Donald Rumsfeld was left speechless and did not understand that nato partners, France and Germany, were not eager to plunge head-on into a war against Iraq. ‘It is difficult to believe,’ he said, ‘there could still be any question in the minds of reasonable people open to the facts before them.’
In the mind of a pitiful warmonger like Rumsfeld, also a stern supporter of any crimes committed by Ariel Sharon, it is a clear and an undeniable fact, that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden are blood brothers. The Iraqi president has made it abundantly clear, that if bin Laden indeed was his friend, he would not be ashamed to say so. Baghdad might sympathize with fellow Arabs fighting us-Israeli war crimes, but that does not automatically mean, that a Saddam-bin Laden Axis would approach as much as a reality. Let alone, that they schemed together to attack on the us. The Bush Administration has frantically tried to utilize this scenario as proof and make the world believe it. Secret meetings in Prague were invented and countless trial balloons launched to pull off another ludicrous fabrication to accuse Saddam of complicity with Al Queda.
Many Americans, and above all those presently occupying the White House, are incapable of understanding, that Muslim opposition coming from Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Hamas, Palestinians or Al Queda, and other places, is not directed against individual Americans, but solely and entirely against us-Israeli aggression preventing Muslims from regaining their legitimate genuine rights of self-determination. Even the Saudi suicide pilots of 09-11, did not despise or hate Americans. All signs were that they loved to learn to fly and live in Florida. That they eventually agreed to fly commercial airlines into us buildings was their ultimate act of Muslim defiance and patriotism against us global arrogance, which continues to look upon Islam as archaic and unfit for the 21st American century. Who in the Muslim world aspires to become a cloned Yankee?
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Americans seem to feel that exporting their way of life can be achieved just as any ordinary commercial commodity and must be as easy as selling hamburgers, Coca Cola or Kentucky Fried Chicken. Compared to the Chinese, Indians, Russians and Arabs, French and other nationals, Americans lack basic common psychological and cultural roots. What they are all primarily engaged in is a blind race to acquire more of the almighty us dollars. Americans are a mishmash of leftovers from all over the world including the old Europe. Together they founded a brand new republic some 200 years ago, and created a place of their own in the sun. Now they mistakenly feel that they have to offer, and sometimes impose, their way of life as the ultimate salvation to the rest of humanity. In reality, they are really only interested in controlling, exploiting and ruling the rest of mankind. It is a new ‘song’, called 21st century imperialism, which is just another wolf in a cloned sheep's clothing.
However, people shape autonomous minds. A person's brain represents the organized totality of psychological processes that enables the individual to interact with the environment. A mind is the totality of a person's conscious experiences. When one compares the processes of perceiving, thinking, remembering or intelligent behavior of president's Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 with, for instance, the Ayatollah's in Iran, Saddam Hussein, Kim Il Song or Osama bin Laden, then it is safe to say, that a lot of quiet talking and listening to each other is needed in order for them to first understand each other, and then to reach a modus vivendi to bring about peace for all.
Yankees, who constructed the basis for their overwhelming prosperity - as Hitler once did - on the notorious military-in-dustrial complex, feel that by carpet bombing the Axis of Evil into the Stone Age, it will ensure that everybody will want to accept the American way of life. Those who do not listen and refuse to accept what Washington prescribes to the world as a shortcut to happiness and prosperity for all, will have to reckon seriously with being plastered with cruise missiles or Daisy Cutters, as the people of Afghanistan and Iraq most recently experienced. Who will be next?
Israel, the 51st American state in the heart of the Arab world, has developed a similar national psychology and strategy. The United-States makes its war machine willingly available to fellow Jews to enable them to consolidate their power against the overwhelming opposition of the region. Of course, a man like junior Bush, who does not lie awake at night after having stolen a free election from his opponent, has no qualms in disregarding the fact that if today a referendum were organized among 280 million Muslims in the Middle East, the state of Israel would cease to exist. Therefore, Bush and Sharon share the criminal use of Apache helicopters and the latest inventions in rocketry to terrorize Arabs and Palestinians into submission. I fail to observe any difference between Nazi methods of Hitler and Mussolini and those of Bush and Sharon. Would Americans allow the establishment of an Al Queda state on the North American continent? Remember how they became hysterical when Cuba started a Marxist experiment in the early 60's.
Osama bin Laden's war against foreign domination is as much
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the result of us blunders as was Fidel's a natural reaction to prolonged us imperialism in Cuba. In 1991, the then Defense Secretary, Dick Cheney managed to convince the Saudi ruling family, that the elder Bush would be sending thousands of soldiers to the desert kingdom to assist them in fighting off an Iraqi invasion. Attacking Baghdad was never contemplated. Cheney assured them, that us soldiers would leave after a us victory. But, of course, Bush 41 and Cheney had never planned to evacuate Saudi Arabia after Desert Storm ended. They did not keep their word to the king. Former Soviet states in Central Asia, that allowed us troops in under the pretext to fight terrorism, should keep in mind this lesson learned by the government in Riyadh. History is repeating itself. Once, Hitler's soldiers had marched into European countries they never had the slightest intention to ever leave again.
When Osama bin Laden returned from Afghanistan, having assisted in the ousting of the Soviets from Muslim land, he planned to quietly resume his family business. However, to his surprise he found thousands of ‘infidel’ us soldiers on Saudi soil. He changed his mind. He set himself a new goal, which was to correct what he considered an unacceptable occupational situation. It can be safely assumed that if only father Bush and Cheney had withdrawn the us military from the desert kingdom in 1991, there would never have been even an Al Queda.
The death toll on 09-11 in New York caused mass hysteria in America. The old sense of security of being the mightiest power on earth had been seriously undermined. Elsewhere, however, the wtc calamity was often viewed with a feeling of déjà vu. The method, using commercial airliners, was indeed new. Lasting only minutes, it caused 3.000 deaths. But that is hardly comparable to the us bombing Southeast Asia for 15 years bringing about millions of deaths. After half a century of American war crimes all over the globe, the chickens had finally come home to roost. The airliner trick was the first real answer from barefoot, unarmed masses to rampant American global terrorism. Bush is convinced 09-11 was an Al Queda operation. It would never occur to him that a cabal of us and Israeli cloak and dagger boys might have prefixed 09-11 to make it look as if Osama bin Laden was the evildoer. Nor would it be the first time that an American president had been lied to by his own intelligence services.
After all, the us military industrial complex never ceases to search for new opportunities to flex its muscles in defense of the fatherland. The 09-11 catastrophe presented the ideal opportunity to gather public support for an entirely new kind of war. It was only recently discovered, as to what type of dangerous schemes Washington is capable of plotting when the most outrageous Mafia behavior is considered normal and acceptable. For instance, in 1961, the us chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, General Lyman Lemnitzer, sent a detailed plan to jfk called Operation Northwoods. It was so designed to appear to the world, that America had every reason to set off a pre-emptive strike against Cuba. At the time, Fidel was the Osama bin Laden of the sixties.
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Lemnitzer proposed to jfk that a bloody war of terrorism should be started inside the us, in order to get public support for a pre-emptive strike against Cuba. Lemnitzer suggested, in writing, to have innocent people shot in us streets. Boats carrying Cuban refugees would be sunk on the high seas by the us military. A wave of terrorist acts would be launched by the military in Washington D.C., Miami and other us cities. Planes would be hijacked. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit and using phony evidence, everything would be blamed on Castro. Hence, general Lemnitzer and his partners in crime would have had a perfect reason to declare war on Fidel. What guarantees do we have that present day us decision makers are not also capable of ordering similar shameless atrocities? Obscene insanity's? Forty years from now, we will know for certain what the real schemes were and understand the lies were told about Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
During and after World War II, Washington has continuously bombed faraway people and places, plotted coups d'état everywhere, had democratically chosen leaders hacked to pieces or had them assassinated through bribing traitors. us-cia sponsored regime change in Indonesia, Cambodia, Ghana, Congo, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, Panama, Chili and many other states has resulted in the deaths of millions and millions of innocent people. Most Americans are simply unaware that these murderous pogroms, carried out in their name, took place at all. Following 09-11, they repeatedly asked, ‘Why do they hate us?’ No-one hates Americans. What the world hates are the terrorist crimes by us intelligence services, too often carried out without knowledge and approval of the White House or Congress. Nations have been terrorized, blockaded, bombed, divided up, plundered and destroyed.
The present planned bogus war against Iraq is a point in case. As William Pfaff remarked in The New York Times, Bush might be winning a war, but at the same time, he is losing the world. November 9, 1998, Britain warned, ‘Time is running out for Saddam.’ September 15, 2002, Jack Straw, British foreign secretary said, ‘Time is running out for Iraq.’ January 14, 2003, George Bush announced, ‘Time is running out for Iraq.’ February 1, 2003, Tony Blair told an audience, ‘Time is running out for Iraq.’ These warnings from London and Washington demonstrated a chilling incompetence and a sort of day-to-day improvisation. How often can serious statesmen repeat the same threats and still expect to be taken seriously? Blair and Bush are victims of their own propaganda.
After constant us-uk reminders, that Iraq had to be blitzed for the security of the world, millions around the globe asked ‘Why now?’ It was a question German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, put as a query directly to Rumsfeld. Staring him straight in the face, he stressed that he was hardly convinced by arguments put forward by the Pentagon chief. Washington's main contention being, that if Saddam were to hand over weapons of mass destruction to Al Queda, the world would be in a mortal danger. If Saddam were to acquire nuclear weapons, Osama bin Laden would soon nuke London and Washington....
Everyone, including the un weapons inspectors, agreed that
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Iraq had no nuclear weapons and will not have them in the near future. In the mean time another member off Bush's Axis of Evil, North Korea, does have operational nuclear missiles. Journalists and commentators have been asking Bush and Blair, why they went as a matter of urgency first after Iraq. As if not hearing the questions they kept replying that time was running out for Saddam. Their obsession with the Iraqi leader remains inexplicable. Don't the White House and 10 Downing Street realize that after Pyongyang the threat of Islamist extremists is much greater than that posed by Saddam Hussein? An attack on Iraq would only make matters worse. ‘Osama bin Laden must be praying for a us assault on Baghdad’, wrote Guardian security editor Richard Norton-Taylor.
Former conservative foreign minister, Lord Kurd, asked some rhetorical questions in the journal of the Royal Services Institute: ‘Do we help or hinder the essential struggle against terrorism by attacking Iraq? Would we thus turn the Middle East into a set of friendly democratic capitalist societies ready to make peace with Israel, or into a region of sullen humiliation, a fertile and almost inexhaustible recruiting ground for further terrorists for whom Britain is the main target?’
Tony Blair only says, ‘Make war now’, because George Bush says so. Aside from the circulating yokes about Tony behaving like George's poodle, most people outside the us are insufficiently informed about the darker sides of the life of junior Bush prior to his dishonest grab of the American throne. Junior is, aside from everything else, a religious freak. The Reverend Billy Graham, who as guardian angel had performed a miracle over another Republican crook, Richard Nixon, also saved young George from turning into a drunkard by making him discover God in 1986.
Ninety percent of Americans replied in a recent poll that they believed in God. Eighty percent confirmed they believed in miracles. It is not Samuel Huntington's ‘Clash of Civilizations’ we are faced with at the dawn of the 21st century, but a ‘Clash of Brains’ between the us and some leading European nations as to whether or not to go to war over Iraq. Perhaps, the Bush II White House represents the most overtly fundamentalist Christian Administration in memory. Cabinet meetings start with prayers. George delivers no speech without some declaration of Christian faith. Well over 50 percent of Americans say that religion is very important in their lives, compared to 16 percent in Britain, 14 percent in France and 13 percent in Germany.
Another little known aspect of the Bush II presidency is that the current most powerful man in the world is served by ‘a puppeteer’. His name is, like Tony Alien-Mills reported in The Times of London, Karl Rove. He is a Texan-tinged mixture of Rasputin and Machiavelli. Such are the modus operandi within us democracy, that when free elections position a virtually brainless individual into the Oval Office, it becomes of vital importance, to whom this stupid man will lend his ears. The first books have appeared yet on the us market, like: Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush. Another book: Boy Genius: Karl Rove, The Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Tri-
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umph of George Bush is already high on the best-seller list. The authors call the president ‘smart enough to know he is not smart enough.’
The writers claim, that once the attack on Afghanistan had dissolved into a fruitless chase after Osama bin Laden, Rove needed a better, simpler, more marketable war. Democrats in the Congress seem convinced, that the sudden Saddam White House strategy was a discovery of Mr. Rove. Some joke about ‘general Rove’, who must have been calling in more air strikes against Iraq. Rove has been working for the past twenty years with Bush. The man himself shrugs off his Svengali reputation. He is simply advising and protecting his boss.
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