Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" doesn't hold a candle to "A Convenient Lie" ... or even the truth ...
... if it can fuel enough sympathy for war ...As far back as February 15, 1898, we needed something to provoke us to war. The sinking of the Battleship Maine allowed us to declare war on Spain ... and her possessions closer to home ...The sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915 was more of a "useful event" than an "inconvenient truth"And although this was as much an "inconvenient truth" as it was a likely consequence of our activities in Asia (and the careful "handling" of intelligence prior to the attack) ... World War II was surely a necessary horror for us all ... but as for the events that led to December 7, 1941 in Honolulu, Hawaii ... hmm ... history books say something a little different of late ...Yes, that little torpedo boat out there in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 2, 1964 was the necessary provocation for Lyndon Johnson to take us to war in a little known country at the time ... Vietnam!And the target of that small torpedo boat? Yeh, this is the Maddox!And this was enough for the pentagon to plan the invasion of Iraq! Several observers have testified that Pentagon planners were preparing the invasion of Iraq only nine days after 9-11-01 when they visited the planning room there. General Wesley Clark, in an interview this past week, stated that he was one of those "observers."What provocation will bring this image and the nutty words of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to our minds as we prepare to take on Iran?Surely, not anything this inconvenient blip in history, whose squeak is louder than his bite, might pretend to be doing!
Wanna bet? Just you wait ... it won't matter whether Ahmadinejad does or doesn't (he doesn't!) have a connection with Al-Qaeda.
Remember Saddam Hussein?A convenient "blip"
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we were always taught the sinking of the Lusitania was what took the US into WW1. but the dates don't match up - the Lusitania went down many months before we declared War.
IIRC, the key thing was a letter from Germany to Mexico, encouraging them to go to war with the US. our British friends "intercepted" it and turned it over to us. Much later, it was determined that the letter was bogus, created by the Brits to dupe us gullible Yanks. and it worked to perfection.
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