Letters to the Editor
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Intentions not so noble
Greenwald's explanations seem more fitting to the millions of well-intentioned Americans who supported Bush's preemptive Iraq invasion and to the millions who still support Bush rather than Bush and his team of advisors and supporters in the White House and Congress.
It is very appealing to the average American to feel good about themselves and to hold the moral high ground in a troubled world. Americans needed reassurance that all the disasters and wrong doings and secret law-breaking were NECESSARY, for GOOD to triumph over EVIL. Then they were free to not take responsibility for the consequences.
But the Bush Presidency knows better and has no such high noble intentions, in my opinion. They know when they are lying, they know when to hide stuff and how to hide stuff, they know to look for "Congress approval" when it may be obvious to most that what they are doing is illegal. If it was right and righteous and justified, why ask Congress for approval?
They are like many men we have worked with in the past: incompetent and unable to ever admit mistakes and much less correct them. They are proud, foolish, and like to feel powerful and honorable and make money while they are at it.
What they have mastered is the rhetoric of good and evil. At that they are very competent.
The odd thing about this whole tragic experience of the W Bush years is that many of us (who never supported him or his actions and were vocally loud in our opposition) feel the weight of the consequences of the disasters his presidency created on our shoulders more than those that supported such endeavors. Life is not fair.