Posted on 07/13/2008 4:37:52 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
INDIANAPOLIS, July 13 (UPI) -- The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq was motivated by revenge for an assassination attempt former President George H.W. Bush, a former GOP member of Congress says.
John Hostettler of Indiana also says the invasion was intended to aid Israel. Hostettler -- one of six House Republicans to vote against the 2002 resolution authorizing use of force in Iraq -- makes the claims in a new, self-published book, "Nothing for the Nation: Who Got What Out of Iraq," the Indianapolis Star reported Sunday.
"It cannot be debated that toppling Saddam was accomplished by means of a 'private compact' with political appointees and their underlings in the Pentagon 'to support' the ideals of 'partisans ... dedicated to another cause,'" Hostettler wrote.
The conservative Republican, who lost his bid for a seventh term last year, said he wrote the book because conservatives must acknowledge the invasion was inconsistent with the nation's foreign policy principles.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Same publisher as Scott McClennan? Sounds like the same whine.
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Somebody’s been reading their spam emails again...
You got that right!
Publius is Hostettler’s. No other books.
PublicAffairs published McLellan’s book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PublicAffairs
The war in Iraq was not revenge, It was for
OIL
What’d ol’ Hos thing about those Iraqis shooting at American planes. What’d he think about Oil for Food and dropping sanctions against good ol’ Saddam.
What a dipstick...
What’d ol’ Hos thing about those Iraqis shooting at American planes. What’d he think about Oil for Food and dropping sanctions against good ol’ Saddam.
What a dipstick...
Amen to that!
Oh, BS.
I keep hoping there are historians out there actually trying to write about history, Doug Feith has done a good first draft but gets completely ignored, but I despair that we are well on our way to a Stalinist type of revisionism.
Self-published book! Even the many left leaning publishers must think the theory is BS or they would be all over a juicy angle like this.!
BDS Bush Derangement Syndrome
Well, look at who is hoping to be the new darling of the left.
So is this guy unemployed now and needs some quick income?
Sure it can. Just hang around here and it'll be debated all to pieces.
What he means is that it cannot be disproven. But the fact that he can't even make such a simple point clearly does not bode well for the book.
BTW, did you ever see so many parentheses in a single sentence?
No, nor so many quotation marks either.
Lot of good it done the us. I guess all the dipsticks are not in DC.
What you said.
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