Musical justifications and satellites

KOS has a great rant about the ABC News article on the Bush administration'slatest shift in justification for the war.

"Sending a message" may be a legitimate reason to go for war, so why not argue it? If the administration was so sure of itself that it was right, and that such a "message" was necessary, then why not make that argument to the American people and the international community?

Instead, as this administration is wont to do, it obfuscated, misdirected, LIED, and did everything in its power to avoid stating the REAL reasons for the war.

Problem is, the rest of the world saw right through it. We demonize France and Germany for refusing to play along with a pathologically dishonest administration, yet it turns out they were right. The lies were naked, and easily exposed. And now the administration itself (including Bush himself) are now admiting that perhaps there are no WMDs in Iraq.

Bob Harris, filling in today for Tom Tomorrow, also reminds us of Bush's statement at the start of the war that we were to "disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger." He also provides a link to an article that tells of our use of satellite technology in the war, including satellites that are "capable of gathering information in Iraq at a resolution 'keen enough to read large newspaper headlines from space'," but which, somehow, couldn't see the WMD being moved, hidden or destroyed.

You know, some days I'm almost scared to start my daily surf through the various news sources and blogs I read each day. I never know what I'm going to find next, and sometimes I'm not sure I want to.