[Grovenet] The Iraqi View

[Beth Genly]

In my posting entitled, "This just makes me ill," I provided a link to 
an article that shows that the administration is, once again, carefully 
choosing the military and political experts whose compilations and 
interpretations of data are favorable to their views, even though those 
experts and constructions are minority viewpoints very heavily 
influenced by ideology. In other words, they are ignoring "facts on the 
ground" in favor of their belief system, while they are making 
decisions. That's how we got into this war, as many people on this forum 
have pointed out.

Unfortunately, this pattern has been very widely reported in too many 
Federal agencies for me to be able to keep count -- NASA, NOAA, HHS, 
EPA, DOJ, come to mind off the top of my head...  It is the modus 
operandi of this administration, and it is unworthy of trust, to say the 
least.

How can we even have a sensible argument if the books are so heavily 
cooked? Our illustrious leaders want us to blindly hand over -- what is 
it -- either $123 billion or $170 billion, as well as almost 
unimaginable numbers of lives, to continue doing what we have been doing 
-- based on "evidence" provided by political hacks, cronies, and 
profiteers -- in other words, loyal "Bushies."  It really does make me ill.

Mike Steele posted a short sad note a little while back bemoaning his 
feeling that as these revelations pile up, many of us are becoming numb, 
resigned, and are just trying to wait out the last months of this worst 
presidency in the history of the US -- but unfortunately, we have to 
make enormously costly, momentous, historic decisions now.  Based on 
what "facts?" Let us be exceedingly careful whom we believe.

Beth