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R.W. Behan | The Smirking Chimp, May 1, 2008
The “War on Terror” is a fraud and a façade, a mere label concocted and trumpeted by an Administration known for its signature dishonesty. The label conceals the Bush Administration’s international crimes of unprovoked military aggression—the armed invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, two sovereign nations the Administration meant to attack from its first days in office.[1]
With its pathological lying, secrecy, and brilliant propagandizing the Administration has prevented a compliant mainstream press from communicating fully the realities of the war. But now, as the country chooses a new president, the truth must prevail, to foreclose another catastrophic Administration—candidate McCain says “No surrender!”—and to make certain instead the fraudulent war is terminated with dispatch.
The “War on Terror” was launched in retaliation for 9/11, we were told, to apprehend Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Then, justifying a quantum escalation in the war with 935 deliberate lies, the Bush Administration sought “regime change” in Iraq.[2]
These alleged objectives were elements of the façade. Osama bin Laden could have been brought to justice easily and without armed conflict. Regime change in Iraq could have been achieved with equal facility. George Bush rejected both opportunities.
Saddam Hussein, hoping to forestall warfare, yielded a series of increasingly attractive concessions to the Bush Administration, finally offering to leave his country for exile in Egypt. [3],[4] But the Bush Administration was unalterably committed to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. If “regime change” were to be achieved by Saddam’s voluntary departure, there would be no excuse for proceeding with the attack: the Administration kept the offers from public view—and ignored them all.
