{"id":186,"date":"2008-03-15T00:58:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T08:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/15\/neocon-nuthouse\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:40:47","slug":"neocon-nuthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/186\/neocon-nuthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Neocon Nuthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/911neocons.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Terry Canaan,<\/strong> <em>special to Fog City Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>March 14, 2008<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;First, just if I might correct a misperception, I don&#8217;t think we  ever said &#8212; at least I know I didn&#8217;t say that there was a direct connection  between September the 11th and Saddam Hussein.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em> &#8211;George  W. Bush, March 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whereas members of al Qaida, an organization  bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and  interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known  to be in Iraq&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<em> &#8211;Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed  Forces Against Iraq, signed into law by Bush, 2002<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Invading Iraq]  is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the  necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations,  including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized,  committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11,  2001.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em> &#8211;Letter by President Bush to the Speaker of the House of  Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, March 18,  2003<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had to go look it up, but it was Sen. Hiram Johnson  who first said, &#8220;The first casualty when war comes is truth.&#8221; In the Iraq war,  truth was assassinated to clear the path to war &#8212; before the first shot was  fired. Lies upon lies upon lies were piled up on top of the truth, smothering it.<\/p>\n<p>Before the first boot hit Iraqi soil, the Bush administration had fired off 935 false statements. And, as the quotes above show, the Bush  administration has never stopped lying about Iraq.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/BushLiar.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First, Bush signed  statements tying Iraq to 9\/11 into law. Later, he claimed those statements never  existed. You don&#8217;t even need the internet to prove him wrong, you can look it up  in a law library.<\/p>\n<p>Once it became clear that Iraq didn&#8217;t have anything to  do with 9\/11, the Bush administration continued to claim that Saddam Hussein and  al Qaeda were joined at the hip. It wasn&#8217;t really all that hard to push this  propaganda, since the media&#8217;s coverage of the middle east prior to 9\/11 left  most Americans largely ignorant of the facts on the ground there. Saddam was a  Muslim and a monster, al Qaeda were Muslims and monsters &#8212; clearly, they were  <em>exactly<\/em> the same. What Edward Said termed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orientalism_%28book%29\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Orientalism<\/a>&#8221; filled in the gaps in our knowledge. We &#8220;knew&#8221;  that they were all the same &#8212; murderous zealots obsessed with religious  doctrine.<span class=\"fullpost\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That this doesn&#8217;t describe Saddam Hussein,  that allower of liquor stores and connoisseur of really bad paintings of women  with really big tits, was beside the point. If there&#8217;s one thing Americans have  become used to, it&#8217;s religious hypocrisy. We have no problem wrapping our minds  around that concept.<\/p>\n<p>Bush used our ignorance of the middle east and our  orientalism to continue to cast the occupation of Iraq as part of his &#8220;Global  War on Terror.&#8221; When the middle east is populated almost entirely by likeminded  religious loonies, it really doesn&#8217;t matter much <em>which<\/em> country you  invade. If they&#8217;re all the same, you can fight the GWoT in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon,  etc. You&#8217;ve got to start someplace and Iraq was as good as any.<\/p>\n<p>So, even  though he&#8217;d given up his &#8220;Iraq caused 9\/11&#8221; BS, he didn&#8217;t quit claiming that  secular Saddam Hussein and the religious cult al Qaeda were basically the same  thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191010052945\/http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A50679-2004Jun17.html\"><em>Washington  Post<\/em><\/a>, June 2004:<\/p>\n<p>President Bush yesterday defended his assertions  that there was a relationship between Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Iraq and Osama bin  Laden&#8217;s al Qaeda, putting him at odds with this week&#8217;s finding of the bipartisan  Sept. 11 commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason I keep insisting that there was a  relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a  relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda,&#8221; Bush said after a Cabinet meeting. As  evidence, he cited Iraqi intelligence officers&#8217; meeting with bin Laden in Sudan.  &#8220;There&#8217;s numerous contacts between the two,&#8221; Bush said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Except, of course, there weren&#8217;t. Throughout the years,  Bush and his neocons have claimed concrete knowledge of things that later turned  out to be untrue. Donald Rumsfeld said that the administration had <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9B06E4DF1738F93BA1575AC0A9649C8B63\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;bulletproof&#8221; evidence<\/a> of Iraqi-al Qaeda ties. Colin Powell  told the UN the US <em>knew<\/em> that Iraq had &#8220;mobile laboratories&#8221; to make  chemical weapons. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/3596033.stm\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He referred<\/a> to &#8220;the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq&#8217;s  biological weapons&#8221; as his source.<\/p>\n<p>Which raises an interesting question;  how can you &#8220;know&#8221; something that&#8217;s not true? How can you claim concrete  knowledge that can&#8217;t possibly be known? How can you say you have proof of the  unprovable? Because there&#8217;s no way you can prove an untruth &#8212; that&#8217;s  practically the <em>definition<\/em> of an untruth. To say that you&#8217;ve proven  something that&#8217;s not true is to lie.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of proof and truth, we now  have the Pentagon shooting down the last of Bush&#8217;s lies &#8212; since the 9\/11  commission report wasn&#8217;t good enough.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180731070516\/http:\/\/edition.cnn.com:80\/2008\/US\/03\/13\/alqaeda.saddam\/\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military&#8217;s first and only study looking  into ties between Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Iraq and al Qaeda showed no connection  between the two, according to a military report released by the  Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>The report released by the Joint Forces Command five years  after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq said it found no &#8220;smoking gun&#8221; after  reviewing about 600,000 Iraqi documents captured in the invasion and looking at  interviews of key Iraqi leadership held by the United States, Pentagon officials  said.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment of the al Qaeda connection and the insistence that  Hussein had weapons of mass destruction were two primary elements in the Bush  administration&#8217;s arguments in favor of going to war with  Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a different tack with Bush and the other  neocon asses who&#8217;ve never been right about a damned thing in this damned  occupation. They <em>haven&#8217;t<\/em> been lying. Let&#8217;s say that they believed all  this crap, despite all the evidence against it and the obvious lack of evidence  for it. The WMD, the ties to al Qaeda and 9\/11, the whole shebang. Let&#8217;s give  them the benefit of the doubt and say they aren&#8217;t lying,<\/p>\n<p>If we do this,  we <em>have<\/em> to conclude that they&#8217;re completely delusional. They&#8217;re insane.  Goofy. Not firing on all cylinders. If we take them at their word, then we  should lock them up in some hospital where they can&#8217;t hurt themselves or anyone  else. And we shouldn&#8217;t let them out until they&#8217;re cured.<\/p>\n<p>We can even say  it&#8217;s for their own good. That&#8217;s it&#8217;s also for our good is just a bonus.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Terry Canaan is a former political fundraiser living and writing in Wisconsin.  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