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Kitsune · 02-05-2004, 03:22 PM

Within days, Bush declared that he would, after all, appoint a commission to investigate; significantly, it would report its findings only after the presidential election.

This is rather surprising -- an actual investigation is going to take place? I'm impressed.

At the same time, I'm confused: I can't understand why the American people have not demanded an investigation into the intelligence failure/intelligence misinterpretation/ignorance of intellicence/whatever. Do people just trust the government this much these days? We sent our sons and daughters off to war for a threat that was hyped up to be bigger than the 9/11 attacks only to find that there really wasn't an incredible danger. We didn't find gallons of biological weapons ready to be launched at the invanding troops, we didn't find any evidence of a nuclear program, and we didn't even find radio controlled planes that could be flown from "just off US shores hundreds of miles inland to launch an attack". Many of our soliders died to find no masses of missiles, tons of gases, links to 9/11, connections to Al Queda, or a even a small slice of yellow cake. Yet, no one really seems to care that such a possible huge blunder was made. We've seen some fingerpointing, but that's about it.

When the police raid a home and shoot a man who doesn't even have a gun, the cities riot with people demanding that someone's head roll. When we invade a country and hundreds of our soliders die while thousands more become embedded in a lengthy stay in a hostile country because somewhere, somehow, someone screwed up, what do we hear in reply?

Crickets.

Whichever side people are on in this matter, I don't get why more aren't asking questions and seeking answers. Most people I've spoken with seem complacent to simply trust assurances from above that the right thing was done, regardless of what information was handed out before the war, after the invasion, and has yet to be found. An even greater number shrug it off as though it isn't a big deal. (Currently "the boob" has proven to surpass the importance of all current and previous war discussions.)

Don't any of these dealings seem shady to most people? Why are so many so quick to scoff at questions and dismiss asking them as an unpatriotic thing? (I'm not suggesting any of this of The Cellar's population. In fact, I'm always really impressed with the debates that go on here and the discussion that takes place.)

02-05-2004, 03:22 PM	#27
Kitsune still eats dirt Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 3,031	Within days, Bush declared that he would, after all, appoint a commission to investigate; significantly, it would report its findings only after the presidential election. This is rather surprising -- an actual investigation is going to take place? I'm impressed. At the same time, I'm confused: I can't understand why the American people have not demanded an investigation into the intelligence failure/intelligence misinterpretation/ignorance of intellicence/whatever. Do people just trust the government this much these days? We sent our sons and daughters off to war for a threat that was hyped up to be bigger than the 9/11 attacks only to find that there really wasn't an incredible danger. We didn't find gallons of biological weapons ready to be launched at the invanding troops, we didn't find any evidence of a nuclear program, and we didn't even find radio controlled planes that could be flown from "just off US shores hundreds of miles inland to launch an attack". Many of our soliders died to find no masses of missiles, tons of gases, links to 9/11, connections to Al Queda, or a even a small slice of yellow cake. Yet, no one really seems to care that such a possible huge blunder was made. We've seen some fingerpointing, but that's about it. When the police raid a home and shoot a man who doesn't even have a gun, the cities riot with people demanding that someone's head roll. When we invade a country and hundreds of our soliders die while thousands more become embedded in a lengthy stay in a hostile country because somewhere, somehow, someone screwed up, what do we hear in reply? Crickets. Whichever side people are on in this matter, I don't get why more aren't asking questions and seeking answers. Most people I've spoken with seem complacent to simply trust assurances from above that the right thing was done, regardless of what information was handed out before the war, after the invasion, and has yet to be found. An even greater number shrug it off as though it isn't a big deal. (Currently "the boob" has proven to surpass the importance of all current and previous war discussions.) Don't any of these dealings seem shady to most people? Why are so many so quick to scoff at questions and dismiss asking them as an unpatriotic thing? (I'm not suggesting any of this of The Cellar's population. In fact, I'm always really impressed with the debates that go on here and the discussion that takes place.)