Perhaps the most egregious aspect of the selling of the Iraq War was its false pretext. It never really was about weapons of mass destruction, as Paul Wolfowitz admitted. WMDs were just “what everyone could agree on.” So it is with deficits. Conservatives and their neoliberal allies don’t really care about deficits; they care about austerity—about gutting the welfare state and redistributing wealth upward. That’s the objective. Deficits are just what they can all agree on, the WMDs of this manufactured crisis. Senator John Kyl of Arizona, speaking on Fox, has come out and admitted as much. All new spending increases must be offset, he said, but “you should never have to offset the cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on Americans.” So there you have it. Deficits of Mass Destruction
via azspot.net
People really have to look at WMD as never existing in the first place. They were not there after the 1980s when Iraq was sanctioned by the UN.
So not finding them is a false conclusion. They were never there.
Once you use this real information instead of the false pretext sold by Bush, vis a vis Colin Powell, your blood will really boil. Oh well, Americans are slow to really digest that much crow.
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