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Millions upon millions of people vehemently expressed their disapproval of the Bush administrations decision to invade Iraq. Bush nor the Senate nor Congress listened to the protests of neither thousands in the streets of America nor millions around the world. ‘After the fact’ a preponderance of evidence clearly establishes that the rationale cited for this pre-emptive military action was based on faulty inaccurate and egregiously “misinterpreted” data. Data that some have characterized as having been manipulated to exaggerate the “urgency” (to quote President Bush) of the need to militarily disarm Saddam Hussein and prevent the proliferation of WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction).

What we do know with considerable surety is that one-year after the invasion, “evidence” provided the United Nations in a summary presented by Colin Powel to the Security Council has been established as entirely false if not intentionally misleading.

We know that after the investigation of the 9/11 atrocity that there is not now nor ever was a credible link between Al Qeada and Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship.

We know that overwhelming anecdotal evidence exists suggesting links between Bush petroleum interests and the Bin Laden family existed prior to September 11/2001 and that official airport flight records support the contention that private Saudi flights left the United States under Whitehouse authority while all other private and commercial air traffic had been suspended by the FAA.

We know that alleged “stockpiles” of WMDs have not been found and every indication suggests that neither the invading U.S. military nor the Untied States itself was ever under any existing ‘threat’ given the presumed availability of chemical biological and nuclear weapons such stockpiles would have presented. Quite simply, there has been no conclusive evidence supporting this contention in any way shape or form.

To the contrary, the people of the United States have witnessed the evisceration of the twelfth and fourteenth amendments by the PATRIOT ACT and the Whitehouse continues to urge greater development of even more “security” cabinets and departments. The Bush administration has demonstrated its disdain for international law while having cited that very same international law in legitimizing the “need” for immediate military action against Iraq.

Many folk aren’t ‘connected’ to the WWW (World Wide Web) and rely solely upon information conveyed through nationally televised news broadcasts and major daily newspapers in the United States for their sense of “what’s going on in the world”.

The New York Times has published an admission that it presented “unverified” and as it turns out absolutely false information regarding Iraq’s pursuit of weapons-grade Uranium and “centrifuge” components used in enriching plutonium to weapons grade material. In fact to their credit the editors of the New York Times have admitted to a lengthy list of misleading and quite plainly, “false” news reports that may have influenced Americans to erroneous conclusions regarding the purported Iraqi weapons programs and weapons stockpiles.

The Washington Post has never forthrightly offered a similar admission, however there exists an overwhelming preponderance of evidence supporting the contention that the Washington Post’s reports were similarly unreliable.

America has lived through the shame of Regan and North’s ‘deal’ with Iranians to supply money and weapons to the Contras in Nicaragua. America has lived with the legacy of lies perpetrated by Richard Nixon’s Watergate and Lyndon Johnson’s policies during the “Bright and Shining Lie” of the Viet Nam era.

If anything, even if Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” is as some have described it a clumsy ill conceived and poorly presented “shlockumentary” that plays “loose and free” with the facts surrounding the Bush administration, it does invite serious questions. Questions regarding the Bush family’s relationship to the Saudis and the ‘rationale’ behind America’s change in policy from a nation that defended itself in the face of aggression to a nation prepared to prosecute invasion on highly questionable grounds.

America has suffered at the hands of the Bush administration and the greater suffering is and ought to be felt by the people of America. Is there any reason of any kind to believe anything this administration tells its own people?