Obama got it Wrong! Bush Made No "Mistake" on Iraq! 
McCain, as typical, was dead wrong and Obama is to be commended for his criticism. After leveling it, however, he moved into other terrain that proved considerably less firm.
Obama criticized McCain for his failure to admit making a mistake, indicating that all political figures of any duration ultimately make them. He noted that the problem was in failing to admit making mistakes and move on.
The next point Obama made was to draw an analogy between McCain and George W. Bush in Iraq. He noted that Bush's serious problem was his failure to concede that he had made a mistake in Iraq.
The Iraq invasion and occupation was in the works, as proven by available documents, by the influential neoconservative organization that has been so influential within the Bush administration, the Project for the New American Century.
How about those secret meetings held in Dick Cheney's office to divide the country among some of the world's leading corporations before Iraq was invaded?
How cozily convenient that one of those corporate giants along with mega-international Bechtel was none other than Halliburton, which Cheney previously served as CEO and which continues to pay him handsomely for services rendered.
How about the whistle blowers who wrote about the Bush-Cheney fixation with Iraq? Their latest member is Scott McClellan, but before that there were Richard Clarke and Paul O'Neill.
How about the reaction to the efforts of the special UN inspection committee headed by Hans Blix to investigate whether those alleged "weapons of mass destruction" that the Bush administration contended imminently threatened the U.S. really existed?
When Blix along with the heads of state of France and Germany urged Bush to hold up any planned response to Iraq's alleged weaponry until the inspection team's final report could be completed, the reaction was one of insult.
France, Germany and Sweden were all denounced by the same neoconservative smear team that went to work on McClellan, Clarke and O'Neill for their honesty and candor in reporting what so many of us already knew, that from the time the neocons arrived in Washington they were hell bent to attack Iraq.
Three great European nations, one of which, France, aided America mightily in the American Revolution, were denounced as "wimps" while the term "freedom fries" was coined by those determined to promptly advance neocon war aims.
This type of insolence that continues to run rampant in the ruthless neoconservative administration must be exposed nationally and internationally.
The reign of America's new Caesars, the dual occupation force of Bush and Cheney, must be exposed for the megalomaniacal, repressive and militarily rapacious regime that it is.
This can only be done by steady effort to expose what actually happened in Iraq.
Death and destruction were wreaked on a nation that posed no military threat to America in the interest of empire expansion and enriching some select over privileged multinational corporations.
Only through the truth will America and the world community have a chance to be set free from the cancerous onslaught to which it has been inflicted through a steady pattern of death and deception.
KEYWORDS: Iraq War, Project for the New American Century, Bush-Cheney Rush to War in Iraq
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