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The Inertia of Power

I hate it when Saddam Hussein gets proved presidency had to resort to misleading
to be right ...Buried in all his information in order to gain support for
pre-invasion bluster was a promise that doing so, then they would provide it.The
Iraqis would give the Americans 'another article, 'Intelligence, Policy and the
Viet Nam' if they tried to occupy the War in Iraq' doesn't have any new
country. To many, this sounded like just revelations. Its significance is the fact
another empty threat, but I took note that Mr Pillar, a 28-year CIA operative,
when he said it.The reason for my was directly involved in the picking and
attention had nothing to do with Saddam choosing of data ordered by the
or any tribal fealties in his favor. presidency to make its case, rather than
Instead, it gave me pause to recall a being allowed to take the more ethical
comment made to me by a veteran foot and responsible path of reviewing all
soldier who fought in World War II. We data and arriving at objective
had a conversation in Geneva in the early conclusions. (Lest someone attmepts to
1980s, just before the Cold War began to accuse Mr Pillar of being a bureaucratic
thaw. I remarked about the superior malcontent, he was installed on the
weapons technology that I thought gave faculty for Security Studies at the
America a distinct advantage over the prestigious Georgetown University soon
Soviets, and the vet responded by after his resignation from the CIA.)The
dismissing hi-tech armories."War is about astounding carnage of Viet Nam --- 58,000
killing your enemy one at a time and American dead, over 150,000 wounded;
gaining territory a step at a time," he approximately 2-4million Vietnamese dead
said. "And you can only do that with the and wounded --- still dwarfs the totals
grunts on the ground."In what's become a for the Iraqi incursion, but tell that to
prolonged battle between the forces of each family who loses a loved one and see
technology and terrorism in Iraq, Defense if it offers them any solace. These
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the latest soldiers, fighters and innocents are not
to challenge the old vet's advice. It's dying or being maimed for noble causes,
also looking like he'll be the latest to but for cynical agenda: vague definitions
rue that decision.However, such of an enemy on one side and warped
repentance will probably not occur in the extreme fundamentalism on the other. The
short term. Just as the Gulf of Tonkin fact that the casualties in Iraq show no
fabrication --- where the Johnson signs of subsiding make the assertions in
presidency alleged a since-debunked North Mr Pillar's article all the more
Vietnamese torpedo boat attack on an exasperating.A new documentary has also
American destroyer --- and the Watergate been recently released. 'Why We Fight'
burglary were subordinated to the public was produced and directed by Eugene
as mere historical footnotes by the Jarecki, who used a spectrum of
administrations in power at those times, interviews to delve into the effects of
the present American presidency appears current American foreign policy. These
to believe its power of office can range from former Bush adminstration
trample any truth that may give the lie officials to critics to American fighter
to its Iraqi folly.The trappings of the pilots to a policeman who lost a son when
American presidency are such that the the jets hit the towers in New
presidency's ability to do this is an York.Jarecki's premise is based on a
established fact. Richard Nixon famous 'farewell' speech by Dwight David
suppressed the truth long enough to win Eisenhower in 1961, who warned of a
re-election. Lyndon Johnson ultimately shadowy 'military-industrial complex'
saw a nation so divided by the Viet Nam that had the potential to hijack American
issue that he chose not to seek a second foreign policy without the public's
term, but not before plunging the USA ability to sufficiently contain it. Given
into a full-scale war. Now, it's George W Eisenhower's status as the Allied supreme
Bush who has slithered into another four commander in World War II as well as his
year term, based in part on his presidency, his warning was not only
administration's spin machine jarring, but prophetic, especially coming
successfully keeping the roots of his as it did on the throes of the Viet Nam
Iraqi misadventure obscure to the conflict. All appearances now are that
public.The harsh reality is that the it's even more pertinent today.In
omnipotence of the world's most powerful retrospect, it is also ironic to think
government makes the task of calling it that it may have been the Americans who
into immediate account virtually were being held in check by the balance
impossible. Before any resistance can be of power posed by a totalitarian Soviet
effectively raised, considerable damage regime. There's no doubt the reverse was
--- in lives and resources --- has true, as well, but I had always thought
already been irretrievably done.We the Americans realized their best global
already know that in Iraq, there were no weapon was their culture; I continue to
weapons of mass destruction. This has believe their culture, not their
been countered by the presidential weaponry, caused the USSR to collapse. As
argument that, well, Saddam was a bad such, I fail to understand why each
man. We also know now that there was no successive American presidency hasn't
relationship between al-Qaeda and Saddam. realized that simple and obvious
Yes, said the presidency, but there could observation.Putting that point to an
have been in the near future; this soon unscientific test, I've asked various
became a self-fulfilling prophecy. citizens of Iraq --- and Iran, for that
Furthermore, even though the presidency matter --- what foreign country they most
claimed that American forces would be admire, and more often than not, they
welcomed as liberators in Iraq, the cite the USA. If I follow that with a
locals there have so far shown a strange question about which government they
way of expressing their gratitude.How can least admire, they cite the USA. Call me
these retorts go so consistently simplistic, but not only does it seem
uncontested, with the possible exception burgers and bluejeans do a better job of
of The Daily Show, which is merely a making friends, they cause significantly
cable comedy channel's satire of the fewer deaths in the process.However, as
news?Now comes further evidence which long as the American public allows its
damns the dubious premises of presidency the inherent power of
presidential Iraqi policy, which has overbearing rebuttal to any dissenting
recently appeared in the journal, Foreign information without a constant call to
Affairs. The author, Paul Pillar, is the justify itself, there will be no
recently resigned CIA head of subsidence in damaged lives or diverted
intelligence for the Near East and South resources.Until then, as Saddam, the old
Asia, who held that office from vet and history have combined to predict,
2000-2005. His job included managing the Iraq is a grunt's war, fought one
Bush administration's secret assessments building at a time. And, like every other
regarding Iraq. In the article, he war, not every grunt will come home alive
contends that invading Iraq was a or well.
pre-ordained goal and that, if the




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