truthsupplier
13-05-2007, 07:20 PM
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17668.htm
We soldiers once assumed our political bosses would not lie to us. That is over.
We soldiers once assumed our political bosses would not lie to us. That is over
We realised the actual issue was about long-term access to oil
By Leo Docherty:
05/09/07 "The Independent" -- -- Four years ago, I watched, with other young officers, the invasion of Iraq on TV in the mess. We were sick with envy. Our brother officers were having the most exciting time of their lives, at the centre of history, while we, on ceremonial duties in London, marched about in red tunics and bearskin hats.
The invasion, it seemed, was a necessary evil to be redeemed by the creation of a free, democratic Iraq. The WMD issue was a pretext, we all concurred, an honourable white lie to knock an evil dictator off his perch and breathe new hope into the lives of a brutally repressed people.
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We soldiers once assumed our political bosses would not lie to us. That is over.
We soldiers once assumed our political bosses would not lie to us. That is over
We realised the actual issue was about long-term access to oil
By Leo Docherty:
05/09/07 "The Independent" -- -- Four years ago, I watched, with other young officers, the invasion of Iraq on TV in the mess. We were sick with envy. Our brother officers were having the most exciting time of their lives, at the centre of history, while we, on ceremonial duties in London, marched about in red tunics and bearskin hats.
The invasion, it seemed, was a necessary evil to be redeemed by the creation of a free, democratic Iraq. The WMD issue was a pretext, we all concurred, an honourable white lie to knock an evil dictator off his perch and breathe new hope into the lives of a brutally repressed people.
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