The Bush administration has been about "the Greater Middle East" (including Central Asia). It has been about basing rights in those areas. It says it is fighting a "war on terror" that is unlike past wars and may go on for decades. It has been about rounding up and torturing large numbers of Iraqis, Afghans and others. This region has most of the world's proven oil and gas reserves.
Why is the Bush administration so attached to torturing people that it would pressure a supine Congress into raping the US constitution by explicitly permitting some torture techniques and abolishing habeas corpus for certain categories of prisoners?
Boys and girls, it is because torture is what provides evidence for large important networks of terrorists where there aren't really any, or aren't very many, or aren't enough to justify 800 military bases and a $500 billion military budget.
The post is based on the the insights of the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray . Murray was able to observe how the Bush administration behaved in Uzbekistan. This provided the basis for his understanding of the administration's motivations in hyping the "War on Terror". Go read the entire post. It is very convincing and very important.
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Juan Cole has his own agenda just like GWB;however, neither you or I can deny the fact that there are terrorists, of an Islamic orientation, who are trying to make the world ISLAM !!
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