Every day I get the SFGate morning fix — I don’t remember why I signed up to it, but I’m glad I did. Today’s had an article that discussed the USA’s invasion of Iraq, and how the invasion is being portrayed as a considerate invasion and that the military is treading lightly and avoiding civilians. Other sources suggest it’s not so clean and friendly, saying that the US military doesn’t even do civilian body counts, and that they’re trying to liberate a people who don’t really want to be liberated anyway.
But is the real reason we’re there to find weapons of mass destruction or to liberate the people from a leader the US itself put into place? Or is it to ensure American control in the Middle East? A group of eighteen influential people called PNAC (Project for the New American Century) hatched a plan in 1997 to coerce the president (then Clinton) to take military action in Iraq. Clinton didn’t, but George W. Bush did. Ten of the eighteen members of PNAC are in the Bush administration.