Thoughtful Preparations: Media Spin Blog

On a new anti-bullshit diet and trying to understand what is going on. During my long commute drives I’ve been going through a reading list of Bush – 9/11 – Iraq books (audio books rented from Simply Audiobooks): House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke (served seven presidents and worked inside the White House for George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush until he resigned in March 2003), Chain of Command by Seymour Hersh, Sleeping With The Devil and See No Evil by Robert Baer (a top CIA Middle East field officer), The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It, and Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind.

Voting Americans owe it to themselves and their country to become more educated on recent history and current events. Bush delivers an Iraq status report and pep ralley today from Fort Bragg, as the American public has grown weary and skeptical while the war slogs on. Over two years later, one might wonder why we invaded Iraq and entered an expensive war. Usama bin Laden still moving freely, Weapons of Mass Destruction not found, gasoline prices hitting record highs, suicide bombings an everyday occurrence, Saddam and other prisoners muzzled at detainment camps.

For years the U.S. Middle East policy has been guided by two factors: Oil and Israel. Having failed to exploit Iraq’s oil supply the conclusion is that we invaded Iraq because Israel wanted us to, they feared Saddam’s regime. Writers and reporters of these events will no doubt sort this out for us, while President Bush and his cronies will continue to pitch their same old diet of pablum. Wake up babies!