5.06.2005

extreme makeover

Naomi Klein asks this important question:
What were the real reasons for the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq?

When we identify why we really went to war—not the cover reasons or the rebranded reasons, freedom and democracy, but the real reasons—then we can become more effective anti-war activists.
Read her answer here.

For those who don't subscribe to Klein's economic interpretation of war, In These Times allows reader comments, blog-style. I hope I don't sound unkind, but I don't really want to use this blog as a place to debate the relative merits of - and reasons for - the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wonder what she makes of the rather cryptic Downing Street Memo ...