A good analysis from Sirotablog. Connecting the dots: An illegal war based on a lie(WMD) is now supposedly the war that will keep us safe on our streets at home, taking the fight to foreign soil rather than ours. This latest lie (1) insults our troops, who are apparently decoys for the war on terror in Iraq, and (2) makes us less safe, since to pay for the based-on-lies-war we SHORTCHANGE SPENDING ON ACTUAL SECURITY WITHIN our borders.
Before reading this piece I did not realize that our brilliant Congress recently voted to gut funding for transit security, reducing it by 1/3, from $150 million to $100 million. Like, terrorists would never think of bombing subways or buses in the United States.
His concluding grafs:
And that's why today's tragic bombing frighteningly highlights just how misguided our entire national security strategy really is. First our government lied to us about why we were going to war in the first place. Then, when that dishonesty was exposed, we got fed another steaming pile of crap about how the war in Iraq was protecting us from terrorists because it was diverting terrorists' attention.
It is now painfully clear that those rationales were not designed to level with the American people – they were designed with one thing in mind: scaring us into supporting what should have been an unsupportable war, at the very time when we should have been focused on and scared about a far more serious challenge: securing the homeland after the worst terrorist attack in American history.
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