President Bush in Denial
President Bush went to George Washington University on March 13, 2006 to give a speech in which he continued to deny what not only the rest of the world but increasing numbers of his own people know about the occupation of Iraq by American military forces.
If observers from Madrid to Beijing know that no weapons of mass destruction were ever found in any of the places in Iraq identified in some detail by Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell in their famous speeches on the topic, and thus there was no chance that Saddam could have supplied al Qaeda (an international criminal organization he was never allied with but rather that he opposed bitterly) or any other organization with weapons of mass destruction as ominously speculated by the current Administration in its public relations campaign prior to the invasion, why doesn’t George W. Bush?
Bush’s hard core supporters steadfastly say that as the Commander-in-Chief, President Bush has access to information of a secret nature the rest of us do not know and therefore we all must trust that he knows what he is doing. Theirs is a faith stubbornly adhered to in the face of considerable evidence that it is faith wrongly placed. Blind faith, such as theirs, should only be given to religious belief and not to the real world, where the helpless are brutally tortured by soldiers serving under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief and the innocent are incinerated by white phosphorus bombs dropped by airmen serving under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief.
The Administration's scramble to create an El Salvador-style “banana republic” in the Persian Gulf region and claim the oil resources of Iraq (and the rest of the region) for wealthy American oil barons has created an endless state of misery for millions. Their evil goal of dominance over the world’s oil spigot has claimed thousands of American lives with no hope that the sacrifice of our nation’s blood and treasure will ever end.
If President Bush knows more than the people of the world and the citizens of the United States, why doesn’t he know that? We do.
If observers from Madrid to Beijing know that no weapons of mass destruction were ever found in any of the places in Iraq identified in some detail by Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell in their famous speeches on the topic, and thus there was no chance that Saddam could have supplied al Qaeda (an international criminal organization he was never allied with but rather that he opposed bitterly) or any other organization with weapons of mass destruction as ominously speculated by the current Administration in its public relations campaign prior to the invasion, why doesn’t George W. Bush?
Bush’s hard core supporters steadfastly say that as the Commander-in-Chief, President Bush has access to information of a secret nature the rest of us do not know and therefore we all must trust that he knows what he is doing. Theirs is a faith stubbornly adhered to in the face of considerable evidence that it is faith wrongly placed. Blind faith, such as theirs, should only be given to religious belief and not to the real world, where the helpless are brutally tortured by soldiers serving under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief and the innocent are incinerated by white phosphorus bombs dropped by airmen serving under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief.
The Administration's scramble to create an El Salvador-style “banana republic” in the Persian Gulf region and claim the oil resources of Iraq (and the rest of the region) for wealthy American oil barons has created an endless state of misery for millions. Their evil goal of dominance over the world’s oil spigot has claimed thousands of American lives with no hope that the sacrifice of our nation’s blood and treasure will ever end.
If President Bush knows more than the people of the world and the citizens of the United States, why doesn’t he know that? We do.
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