"Although we have not found stockpiles
of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq." Really? We
were right to kill 11,000 Iraqi citizens, and we were right to sacrifice
1,000 of our military personnel?"
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Let's Play Pretend!
BECAUSE REALITY BITES!
Posted July 16, 2004 thepeoplesvoice.org
By: Ted Lang
Say what?! We gonna do it agin' Mr. Boss President?! Can you believe the
arrogance?! Can you believe dismissing the facts from the 9-11 Commission
and the Senate Intelligence Committee? And let's be clear -- both of these
investigative bodies played puffball with respect to the glaring
incompetence and unbelievable ineptitude of President George W. Bush and his
Republican administration! Dumbo versus Joe Camel!
When I was a kid, a real long time ago, somebody would shout, "Let's play
pretend!" "Okay," somebody would say - "what are we going to pretend to
be?" "Want to play war, or cops and robbers, or maybe Space Patrol?!" I'm
sorry, but that's what comes to mind when I reflect upon the toddler
mentality just mouthed by President George W. Bush when "vigorously
defending his strategy against terrorism," as The New York Times' David
Stout wrote in his July 12th article covering Bush's Oak Ridge, Tennessee
pontifications.
It reminds me of the Charley Reese effort a few days ago wherein Reese
correctly pointed out the unmitigated stupidity of declaring war on a tactic
instead of a threatening nation. It's similar to declaring war on sadness,
or laughter, or just going to the bathroom.
In his piece "Days After Scathing Report, Bush Defends War on Iraq," it is
astonishing that our government's Chief Executive would stick to the same
tired, worn-out and threadbare lies virtually everyone in America and the
world knows to be nonsensical bombast and bluster. In fact, his words do
indeed remind me of the woodenheaded puppet, Mr. Bluster, on the late
"Buffalo Bob Smith's" Howdy Doody show, another puppet with cowboy boots.
The Iraqi War was the product of orders to puppet Bush from Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon as correctly pointed out by Ralph Nader.
Stout points out that Bush, ".asserting that the war against Iraq was right
and that the United States, while relying heavily on firm diplomacy, would
not shrink from future pre-emptive strikes defending itself." But wasn't
that the point of the reports from these two commissions? No connection to
Iraq was found concerning 9-11, and the Senate found that Saddam neither had
the weapons nor the means to deliver them and make good on any threat to our
national security. Was Bush listening?
If he was, how can he possibly say: "Although we have not found stockpiles
of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq." Really? We
were right to kill 11,000 Iraqi citizens, and we were right to sacrifice
1,000 of our military personnel? What did we gain from this Mr. President?
How will you explain away the next terrorist attack because of the hatred
and fear you have created in the world towards America?
"We removed a declared enemy of America who had the capability of producing
weapons of mass murder and could have passed that capability to terrorists
bent on acquiring them." Once again, the same disproven assertions and
bald-faced lies. It's the Goebbels/Goering thing: State a bald-faced lie
often enough, and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh will have all the material
they need to earn their millions over the next several weeks.
And of course, in the light of irrefutable evidence of either the bumbling
incompetence of both Bush's FBI and CIA, or a deliberate plot to program the
9-11 terrorist attacks to generate the required public outrage to trick the
Congress and the American people into this deadly and bloody treason for the
total advantage of Israel, Bush praises his executive agencies for the fine
work they've done. Huh?
Bush offers that "In 2002, the United Nations Security Council yet again
demanded a full accounting of Saddam Hussein's weapons programs. As he had
for over a decade, Saddam refused to comply." Again, another bald-faced
lie! Saddam provided extensive information on his weapons programs, and the
Senate Intelligence Committee's evaluation confirmed that Saddam, not
President Bush, was telling the truth.
This is precisely why the "he said-she said" evaluation of politics is such
a total waste for thinking people. Only the intellectually challenged who
require a Rush Limbaugh or a Sean Hannity to do their thinking for them get
any "value" out of this nonsensical blather and baloney. It signifies
nothing. It's all lies and propaganda to prop up a mere man over the rule
of law. And a rule of law not based on morality and integrity is nothing
more than printed police state dictums and fiats to swindle US out of our freedom, property, and our wealth.
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© THEODORE E. LANG 7/12/04 All rights reserved.
Ted Lang is a political analyst and a freelance writer.
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