After Two Years

On March 19, 2003, the US invaded Iraq. After two years, the president bush has not been able to articulate a coherent, or moral, reason for his actions in that country. As each of his reasons were exposed to be false, his criminal administration has shifted from one to the other, and, with the help of the CCMA, seamlessly. Each has been presented as if it were the original articulated purpose from the start.

Weapons of mass destruction? False.
In speeches given in 2000, both condi rice and colin powell said that Saddam Hussein was contained, no longer a threat to its neighbors, and had no capabilities to manufacture weapons of mass destruction. Amazingly, according to the president bush, in 2 years, while under draconian sanctions, which were responsible the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi children, constant patrols of the northern and southern no-fly zones, and constant surveillance by US satellites, Hussein was able to build the infrastructure necessary to construct and maintain stockpiles of those weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps the president bush might want to bring Hussein over here to revive our moribund manufacturing sector. After all, they expected us to believe that he was some sort of miracle worker in that field.

Ties to al-Queda? False.
After reason number one was debunked, they trotted out this no-brainer. The religious fundamentalist bin Laden and the secular Hussein, neither liked or trusted each other. If either had the opportunity to dispose of the other, they would have. And in 2004, the president bush announced to a less than surprised world that this reason was never true.

Bringing democracy to Iraq? False.
Now the administration has trotted out this one to center stage. The purple-finger election would not even have happened if the president bush hadn’t been forced into a corner by Sistani, and had to schedule them. Then the president bush set things up with a 2/3’s majority needed to form a government. Given the conditions current in Iraq, this is going to be extremely difficult, to say the least. The resulting chaos serves his agenda well.

And still Mr Death continues his work unabated.

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And there are no reliable figures for Iraqi deaths, because the president bush administration doesn’t ‘do body counts’. The reason for this lack of concern for the ‘collateral damage’, is because to the president bush, they are just that, collateral damage. And besides, they’re not Americans after all. So they don’t count. The families and friends of all those dead think that they count. And we should be thinking the same.

I would have thought that after Vietnam, we, as a nation, would have learned some lessons about unnecessary war. Apparently we didn’t. But the administration of the president bush did. No pictures of our brave men and women returning in their lonely coffins, the ultimate ‘Army of One’. No pictures of our wounded returning home to a country that has turned its back on them. Witness the cuts in veterans’ care, and assistance to their families. I guess their opinion of them is that they are damaged goods, and are written off as inventory shrinkage.

Do you remember bush’s thoughts about dictatorship in 2000? “This would be a lot easier if this was a dictatorship. As long as I was the dictator.” And do we remember how the president bush whined during the 2004 debates about how much hard work being president was? Well, we know the president bush is intellectually lazy, and just lazy in general. After all, it’s not like he has ever had to actually do any work in his lifetime. So it is only natural that he would move to create the conditions where his job will be easier. And his cronies and acolytes are diligently working to make this happen for the little man.

With Iraq in chaos, the president bush continues to bring violent unstability to the Mideast with his talk of actions against Syria and Iran.

So, for this sad anniversary, I guess we’ll wave a few flags, make a few speeches praising our brave men and women in uniform, and then it’s on to the next item on the agenda. After all, in our bustling economy there’s no time to stop and reflect upon what we have done. Maybe the CCMA can squeeze a few lines between stories of fluff and celebrities to recognize the anniversary.

It’s too late to prevent the devestation in Iraq, but we can use this occasion to try to stop the president bush from continuing his bloody agenda. To do otherwise, would be to fail those who have sacrificed all.

I’ll close this post with a reminder from the first anniversary.

First Year Anniversary of the war in Iraq