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Finally some truth

Someone in the Bush administration has finally admitted the truth.

During testimony before the Senate Foreign relations Committee on Oct 20th, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finally told the truth. She admitted that it was always the Bush administration’s intention to redesign the Middle East after the 9/11 attacks. She said that 9/11 merely exposed a “deep malignancy that had been growing” in the region for a long time. The Iraq war is a part of the much larger plan to change the political character of Middle Eastern countries and the mindset of the peoples living in them.

On the Oct 16th edition of Meet The Press, Condi made a similar statement:
“But the fact of the matter is that when we were attacked on September 11, we had a choice to make. We could decide that the proximate cause was al-Qaeda and the people who flew those planes into buildings and, therefore, we would go after al-Qaeda and perhaps after the Taliban and then our work would be done and we would try to defend ourselves.

Or we could take a bolder approach, which was to say that we had to go after the root causes of the kind of terrorism that was produced there, and that meant a different kind of Middle East.”

So basically Condi is admitting that the Bush administration had ulterior motives in invading Iraq. No surprise there. The only one to question her about that statement was Barbara Boxer saying that changing the mindset of the Middle East was not given as a rationale for war by President Bush. Something I want to know is why was Boxer the only one to speak up on this issue? Wasn’t Condi admitting that Bush misled the country on his reasons for invading?

Something else to note is the fact that remaking the Middle East was on the table long before 9/11. Just look up the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), whose former members include current members of the Bush administration. 9/11 didn’t expose anything; it was merely an excuse for them to implement their pre-existing agenda of controlling the hearts and minds of the world, by force if necessary.

And keeping in line with remaking the Middle East, Condi was also peppered with questions regarding the possibility of future military action in the region, most notably against Syria or Iran. She refused to rule out expansion of the Iraq war into neighboring countries. When asked whether President Bush would seek authorization from Congress for the use of military force outside of Iraq’s borders, Condi had this to say “I don’t want to try and circumscribe presidential war powers. I think you’ll understand fully that the president retains those powers in the war on terrorism and in the war in Iraq.”

Apparently Condi, nor anyone else in the Bush cadre for that matter, has bothered to read the US Constitution. Or maybe they just skimmed over the part about how only Congress has the power to declare war. Maybe they felt that part would “circumscribe” the President’s unimpeded global war.

Condi’s remarks just illustrate the true intentions of the Bush/PNAC cartel.

(Originally posted on Yahoo360)