Letters to the Editor
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Don't Just Blame Bush - Blame All His Enablers
Every last idiotic Republican and their fellow-travellers who voted for and supported this idiot and his incompetent administration is responsible for this mess. Every single one of them is a war criminal and should live in shame and disgrace for the rest of their lives. Anyone who voted for Bush should be stripped of their right to vote for life and made to pay special war reparations taxes to fund their President's stupid war. Bush and his entire administration should go to jail for the rest of their miserable lives and thier assets should be siezed by the State to pay for thier failed war. This is America - we reward winners and punish losers. Let's remind the Republicans that there are consequences to their massive failure.
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Simple Statement - Why We Must Leave
To Mark Denny, mw213, and others who argue for staying in Iraq:
We, the USA, made Iraq worse now than Iraq was under Saddam. Our soldiers are the fuel in the fire of Iraq. We need to pull out that precious fuel. And let the fire burn down.
Eventually, in a cooler future, maybe we can go back and help rebuild Iraq. Now we just need to leave.
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Some knew of the folly.....
You say that Americans "went along with the war dutifully, in deference to a patriotic appeal they neither accepted nor rejected. This was not a hot-blooded war. It was one we sleepwalked into.", but I'd like to point out that millions in the U.S. and around the world spoke out/demonstrated against the launching of this insane war, but were ignored. Many of the mainstream news agencies at the time in the U.S. chose to portray the crowds that turned out as being smaller in number than was later determined.
We have been and are still being fed a lot of misinformation in this country. I'm not even sure I trush NPR any more. People wake up before it's too late.
As for Bush's faith, deliver me from people of his ilk--our children will be paying for their delusional thinking for decades to come.
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And if God provides
Nuclear weapons, then Servant Bush must use them.
Jesus H. Freeking Crist, people!!!! If the House does not begin impeachment immediately against Bush, Cheney, and Gonzo we will be seeing mushroom clouds over Tehran!!!! They must be distracted, weakened, SOMETHING. As long as the generals are saluting and pushing the bottons, well, we're the greatest danger to the earth humankind has even known.
Remember, no one expected the Spanish Inquisition!!!
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Religion too late
It's fairly well documented that Bush found Jesus in the bottom of a bottle or an empty vial when he was about 40. Before that he just didn't devote any of his limited understanding of the world to matters of the spirit. So when he took his save-my-marriage-please crash-course in religion, his mental/spiritual development was simply too far down the track of his life for his new-found faith to really make much of a difference. Certainly it didn't change his native arrogance and sense of entitlement. Whether it's sincere and heart-felt is irrelevant. What matters is that he is even more shallow in spiritual understanding than he is in geopolitics. It seems to be the former, not the latter, that guides him. And we have enabled him. What a great movie this will make 30 years from.
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Not everyone sleepwalked into the war
I attended several marches against the war, including one in San Francisco where hundreds of thousands of people protested the looming war. There were marches and protests in every major city of the U.S. and all over the world. There were very accurate predictions of what the outcome would be. Yet these are never mentioned when discussing the run-up to the war. Why?
Just because the right-wing MSM ignored or downplayed the protests and marches doesn't mean they should be wiped from our collective memory. Responsible journalists should acknowledge that there were wiser people offering realistic opinions, but their voices couldn't be heard over the cheerleading for the war from the MSM.
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This isn't sarcasm
Amen, brother, amen.
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Faith as red herring
Sadly, the world is run by ruthless murderous criminals with a vested interest in perpetual war. They own the world's wealth. They know that the public is infantile, so they select a man-child leader with which the public can identify - a Reagan, a Bush, the name doesn't matter. Religious faith is just a part of the infantile world view that the public is encouraged to have, and leaders assume for public display. "Democracy" is simply an empty rhetorical term used to justify the occupation of foreign countries to confiscate their resources. Terrorism is fake and state-sponsored, serving the imperialistic agenda of the PNAC. The real agenda of the Bush administration has been to reduce or eliminate taxes on the plutocracy; in this they have succeeded.
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war as bad medicine
kamiya's effort to explicate the mindset of the bush adm is most welcome. acknowledging their rationalizations & faulty logic is more productive than pure derision.
it also suggested an analogy for the travesties of neocon interventionism: bad medicine. bad policy resembles iatrogenic disasters like thalidomide - used as a sedative during pregnancy then causing armless offspring. like the worst physician, bush abandoned sound practice and cautionary principles. political systems are analogous to biological ones in that every action results in a reaction. the creation of al-quaida is much like the creation of resistant bacterial strains from misuse of antibiotics or malignancy caused by wanton use of radiology or immune suppression from excess use of steroids.
perhaps fear of disease or vulnerability to terrorist attack is doomed to stir bluster, panic, magical thinking. in both realms, the consequences of poor judgment can be irreversible harm, as kamiya suggests.
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Amen brother
"Don't Just Blame Bush - Blame All His Enablers
Every last idiotic Republican and their fellow-travelers who voted for and supported this idiot and his incompetent administration is responsible for this mess."
Dear House Democrats: Impeach now, because it's the right thing to do, regardless of the politics of it. My guess is you'll have 75 percent of the voters behind you in a matter of weeks, once the sordid truth is revealed.
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Anti-war rallies before the Invasion
I have to support the folks here who pointed out that most of the population of the world opposed the invasion, and even majorities in the U.S. were opposed to it, in the polls for a long time. The biggest rallies in world history against war happened in city after city.
The U.N. was opposed. The U.N. inspectors found nothing. If you read carefully in our press, you saw U.S. reporters who could not find corroborating evidence of the administration's allegations, although they were few and far between.
Even Saddam was making concessions to avoid the war. Although he warned, 'we will wage guerilla war" and he was right...
The press in the rest of the world was more careful, and did not corroborate Bush's stories. It was the U.S. power elite, and their parties, the Democrats and Republicans, who rallied around Bush, Cheney and Colin Powell. We won't forget.