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Bad Intelligence used to justify war in Iraq
Imagine this scenario: Your local taxing authority claims you have purchased a very expensive luxury automobile and not paid taxes on it. The taxing authority claims that you owe them $25,000 in taxes and demands payment immediately or they will seize your home and sell it to pay the tax.
You of course do not own such an automobile and your protestations only "prove" that you are obviously a tax cheat. The taxing authority claims you have moved the automobile to another location. As proof that you own this automobile, they point to the oil stains in your driveway.
Additionally, a neighbor that does not like you has anonymously and secretly testified that you in fact do own this luxury car. In exchange for his testimony, the neighbor has been granted a reprieve on his past tax bill. A paid informant for the taxing authority also claims that he has seen you talking to a man whose cousin works for another man that owns a tire dealership that once sold tires to a luxury car dealership, allegedly.
All of this, according to the taxing authority indicates that you own this luxury automobile and that, since they have no record of your paying the luxury tax, you are a tax cheat. The taxing authority also claims that, since their records go back as far as 1922 and that they show no record of your having ever paid the luxury tax on the automobile, you owe them the tax from 1922 (even though you were born in 1950). According to the taxing authority, their lack of evidence and proof are indications that you are a clever tax cheater.
This is precisely the argument used by our government for the un-Constitutional invasion of Iraq. Iraq was claimed to be a clear and eminent threat to our Constitutional Republic and as such deserved to be invaded, a statement that is of itself true. The problem however lies in the fact that Iraq was not and is not a threat to our Republic. If we want to look for threats against the Republic, we need look no further than Communist China who currently enjoys Most Favored Nation trade status with the US.
But China is making a lot of fat cats and their political cronies (who receive large campaign contributions from these individuals and corporations) quite wealthy; at the expense of American jobs and sovereignty. Frankly, Mexico poses a greater threat to the sovereignty and Constitutional Republic of the United States, but we won't deport it's illegal immigrants here, nor will we even take adequate measures to seal our porous southern borders.
Iraq, by not being able to produce WMD's to show our inspection teams was accused of spiriting them away, of hiding them or worse, of having them already positioned here in America to launch. The more Iraq protested and opened itself up to inspection, the more the paranoid conspiracy theories from the White House flowed. Iraq went from being a third world dictatorship to being a high tech nation with unmanned aerial vehicles capable of targeting our nations capital, something even the Russians were never able to threaten us with during the height of the cold war.
Now, after thousands of Iraqi deaths and hundreds of American ones; after tens of billions of dollars have been sent, the president realizes that perhaps the "logic" used to invade Iraq was faulty. Unfortunately, we are up to our ears in Iraq with no clear exit strategy within the next decade. The longer we occupy, the more the resistance grows and the more American soldiers will die (not to mention tens of billions of dollars more).
The president, like the socialist liberal he is, is going to attempt to spend his way out of Iraq. Socialist liberals who have dominated our nations federal government since the 60's always try to spend their way into and out of every problem they create. The capital used by socialist liberals is of course stolen taxpayer money and the lives of the poor and middle class who comprise the military services.
Bush sees nothing wrong for instance with denying $150 million dollars to hire thousands of additional Customs workers to help secure our borders while simultaneously approving the exact same amount of money to hire such workers for Iraq. While I am all in favor of reducing federal spending, regardless of how well intentioned it may appear, to spend our money in a third world nation is criminal and un-Constitutional.
Bush truly wants to secure the borders, he should hand this over to the individual states and citizens. I know many private citizens such as myself who would gladly volunteer their time and money to help secure the borders and indeed, are already doing so.
Mr. President, it's not your money to do with as you please. Mr. President, it's not your private Army to do with as you please, it is the military of the United States of America, a military that has sworn an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, not the "interests" of your wealthy friends. While we're on the subject Mr. President, Dick Cheney's Haliburton and the other companies you hired to rebuild Iraq never submitted competitive bids per federal law. If we want to go after malefactors, perhaps you need to turn to your immediate left and arrest your Vice President for war profiteering.
I predict however that our president will do little to ease the plight of the dying, wounding and maiming of US soldiers in Iraq, just as he has done nothing to ease the plight of the unborn here in America. This president is nothing more than a socialist liberal in drag that has surrounded himself with men and women who have nothing but contempt for true freedom and liberty.
In Freedom,
Al Lorentz
State Chairman, Constitution Party of Texas
29 September 2003
Al Lorentz is a Fundamentalist Christian and the State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Texas
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