Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Bush's Speech in Focus

I will freely admit: I didn't watch the President's twaddle about Iraq Tuesday. I read it online. I figured that way I'd be less tempted to escape the monotony and lies through sleep.

Some people tallied the buzzwords in his speech. The results can be found here.

But I now have a few questions. I knew that Bush would again try to relate Iraq to the attack on U.S. soil that downed the Twin Towers. That came as no surprise to me. He has always tried and always failed to rationalize why we're there, dying.
  • There was an assassination attempt on Bush Sr. by Iraqi intelligence. This would probably would make junior angry. Revenge: is that why we're there?
  • Bush's money comes from oil. There's oil in Iraq. Is that why we're there?
  • Another reason we're there: we are a wartime economy nation. Wars are good for the economy, historically.
  • Is it a smokescreen for an attempt to blame multi-millionaire bin Laden, and perhaps an angry threat from the bin Ladens threatening to cut business ties if Dubya didn't stop?
There are no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq (yet another buzzword). In the words of your father, George, read my lips. The 911 commission, despite having a report censored by Dubya, has said that Iraq has nothing to do with the events on Sept 11th, 2001. Why does he continue to spout that old, tired, discredited line? Senator Joseph Biden (D) has been to Iraq and says those Iraqi troops are nowhere near ready, despite Bush's assertion that they are. Biden also seems to indicate that there is a lack of interest in support troops from the U.N., France, Egypt, and Jordan, all of whom have offered troops. Our tax dollars have also, somehow, not made it over there.

So, we're off to fight the terrorists. Even if there are terrorists in Iraq now, many of these attacks are coming from terrorists that weren't there before our invasion. The same thing happened in Afghanistan when the Soviets had troops there. After an invasion where their government had been overthrown by non-Muslims who embarked on a counter-insurgency campaign, foreign troops came in to repel the Russians, and the Taliban took over. The Afghanis preferred the Taliban over the Russkis. Is this starting to sound disturbingly familiar? Let me repeat: an invasion (in Iraq), government overthrown (Saddam Hussein ousted), non-Muslims (Americans), counter-insurgency campaign (us in Iraq)...

The thrash band Megadeth was right: "Military intelligence; two words combined that can't make sense."

"There have been virtually no oversight hearings about what is going on in Iraq," says Biden. This is disturbing in and of itself. Are there only an elite few who know what the score is over there? Long ago, we were told that if we didn't fight communism abroad, we would have to fight it here. I have yet to see one Chinese aiming a gun in my direction. Nor do I see the Communist Party leading in the polls here. Bush is again using this line with regards to the terrorists. Citing Gen. John Vines: "We either deal with terrorism and this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us.”

We need Superman to come back, and restore some truth and justice to the American Way.

posted by ERW @ 8:26 PM
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