The Truth They Dare Not Speak

Bush and his minions are reluctantly admitting there were no WMDs in Iraq, and everyone is jumping on it and they're on the defensive and it's a big media issue. To those with some common sense it's just as meaningless now that they admit it as it was when they claimed it in the first place. WMDs were a nice selling point, but with a tyrant like Saddam we shouldn't really need an excuse to impose regime change and free the oppressed people of Iraq.

Given the reality of global politics and the reality of the Bush administration's foreign policy, they really did need a compelling reason to go into Iraq. If it wasn't WMDs - and even if the administration believed they were there, they were never really their primary interest - then what was the reason? The nattering nitwits on the left will rave on that it was all for oil, an argument which even a child who has read a few newspapers would laugh at. We don't need Iraq to get oil, and oil was already coming out of Iraq anyway under the disastrous and corrups oil for food program, plus we're not profitting as a nation from Iraqi oil now that the war is over, nor are our businesses, at least not any more than any one else is. That argument is just silly.

Yet there is a real and compelling reason for going into Iraq and the beauty of it, the reason why Bush has had to defend the WMD claim to the death and walk with tiptoes around exactly what we're doing there and why it's absolutely worth going into Iraq, is a reason which no one who understands or is in a position of power can even dare to speak aloud. The true reason we're in Iraq is so important and so dangerous and such a high stakes play that it could inflame a world war if Bush came right out and stated it.

To see what they're not saying all you have to do is look at a map and remember the last 20 years of history in the Middle East. While you look at the map, consider which two countries we have invaded in the 3 years since the 9/11 attack. What do Iraq and Afghanistan have in common? Only one thing unites them. Afghanistan borders Iran to the east and Iraq borders Iran to the west. By invading those two countries and establishing a military presence in each of them, we have effectively surrounded Iran. Going back to 1980 and looking at the problems in the Middle East, what country comes up again and again as a source of terrorism, as the single most powerful nation antagonistic to the US and the most potentially dangerous nation to our interests in that part of the world? Which country has the largest and most modern army? Which country is an anti-American theocracy run by implacable ideologues? Which country has agents operating against secular governments from India to Egypt? Which country is developing its own Nuclear Bomb (a real WMD)? Which country is sending all the terrorists into Iraq to fight back against our army? The answer to all of those questions is Iran. It's probably the most dangerous nation in the world right now, including North Korea and it's absolutely set on the destruction of the US.

Iran is a tough nut to crack. We don't want to invade Iran. We want to neutralize it, place pressure on it and bring it to under control. How do we do that without invading? We take over the two screwed up but easy to conquer countries bordering it, move troops and cooperative governments in and surround Iran with enemies. That's the truth Bush dare not speak and the real reason we invaded Iraq. Iran is the heart of islamic extremism and Iraq is the key to neutralizing Iran. Don't expect to hear that in a debate, but when you listen to Bush remember that this is the truth which he can never speak and which we have to understand and know that he has in mind throughout his dangerous ventures in the Middle East.