Unforgivable Malice
The Right Wing strikes back! In memoirs published by Karl Rove and reflecting attack dog Dick Cheney and his daughter, truth is not respected but the myth that Bush did everything to contain terrorism and that “no attacks happened in America during his term of office” would be a joke if it were not for a sizeable slice of American that actually buy this twist on reality.
To justify torture and mass slaughter of innocents under Bush’s watch, a war which was not at all necessary but bankrupted American prowess and ability to police the world effectively, to justify the stupid “war on terror” these discredited and destructive old traitors trot out this garbage as it if it is their sole domain and duty to “keep America safe”.
Balony. Bush’s terrifyingly ineffective reign as war maker in chief has given the likes of Osama Bin Laden the perfect recruiting tool. Instead of a small movement of extremists there are now millions of young men prepared to throw their bones into the furnace. They see the American action in Iraq as aggression and it makes no sense to justify it. The United Nations weapons inspector, before the war, stated clearly that there were no WMDs. And yet fruity dossiers were used as “evidence” of a need to go to war.
War is not effective when it is waged for invalid reasons. And the invasion of Iraq was from a sense of belief – of a personal grudge – of the convictions of a fundamentalist that history may well view as just as insane as the acts of Osama Bin Laden. Although one has to credit the terrorist in chief with a little more leverage and effect, the “war on terror” is merely a bad fiction and evidence of corruption in the American political system.
And so these stupid men strive to continue the myth. Meantime President Barack Obama is forcing the Taleban, the real crooks, into a corner and trying to save a country that is so torn by war from itself. Is his “surge” justified? It has been heavily criticised by the Left and may indeed prove ineffective. But if the Taleban are broken as a force, and Al Qaeda’s head is removed, there is a hope that the opium trade could be abated and that US military forces could withdraw from both of these nations.
The real issue is Pakistan, Iran and the continued spreading of anti-Western feeling as American forces blunder over the dead bodies of children. The real issue is over population and the need for power. It is not Islam. It is the threat of death and destruction. It is a lack of trust that these countries can exercise a political will that is based on a philosophy of peace and good will.
The same can be said of the Cheney – Rove – traditions and how America may well embrace it as they vote Sarah Palin into power, is America that gullible?
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