Bush visit to wounded troops sets year’s tone
I am resolved to make sure that these kids who are recovering here, that have suffered terrible injury, that their injuries are not in vain by completing the mission and laying that foundation for peace for generations to come. And I’m optimistic we’ll achieve that objective.
- Our Glorious Leader
It’s oddly comforting to know that, even though we find ourselves in a new year, the same old lying and propagandizing will continue unabated. Five years of it, and it’s practically taken on the trappings of a tradition. Yes, another wondrous year of Our Glorious Leader’s prevarications and dissembling. Another productive year of propagandizing that would make old Joe Goebbels proud. Another year of spin furious enough to make a Turkish dervish puke. Another year where the truth and American soldiers are the first casualties of an immoral war.
Certainly no one could have been silly enough to expect that the Prevaricator in Chief would change his stripes simply because the calender says 1.1.06. No, regardless of the reality that we need new calendars, Evil is still Evil, and he is still in high gear. It’s OK, though, because being a Republican means never having to say you’re sorry, or having to worry about being held accountable- especially when you can wrap yourself in flag and faith.
SAN ANTONIO - President Bush’s first official act of the new year was pinning Purple Hearts on U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq, a signal that for the White House, 2006 would be another year dominated by the war.
The soldiers were among more than 2,300 wounded service members treated there since the beginning of the two wars, and Bush took note of their plight as he restated his reasons for the unpopular Iraq war.
“There’s horrible consequences to war — that’s what you see in this building,” the president said after the hospital visit. “On the other hand, we also see (soldiers) who say, ‘I’d like to go back in, Mr. President, what we’re doing is the right thing,’ because many of these troops understand that by defeating the enemy there, we don’t have to face them here. And they understand that by helping the country and the Middle East become a democracy, we are, in fact, laying the foundation for future peace.”
“By defeating the enemy there, we don’t have to face them here”…. My God, you’d think that someone who has spent five years passing himself off as President would have more respect for wounded American soldiers than to use them as pawns in his craven Propaganda game. Memo to Our Glorious Leader and his supporters: repeating a talking point will not eventually convert it into The Truth. All it means is that you’ve mastered The Big Lie.
“By defeating the enemy there, we don’t have to face them here”…. OK, let’s review the truth again, shall we? THERE WAS NO TERRORIST THREAT IN IRAQ…UNTIL WE INVADED AND BECAME AN ARMY OF OCCUPATION. THE TERRORIST THREAT OUR GLORIOUS LEADER IS SO DETERMINED TO COMBAT IS THE SPAWN OF HIS OWN FAILED POLICY IN IRAQ. Bush can whine and bleat all he wants to about creating democracy and fighting “the evil ones”, but in the eyes of so many in Iraq, WE are “the evil ones”. It would be nice to see The Prevaricator in Chief acknowledge the truth instead of spreading so much self-serving propaganda, but that would mean having to admit that his policy is a disaster and he is a liar…and when you see yourself as a messenger of God’s will, that just won’t do, will it?
The energetic focus on the war comes at a time when, despite a bit of a recovery in the last quarter of 2005, Bush is still struggling to convince a majority of Americans that the war in Iraq was worth the price in American lives and treasure and that it was making the country safer.
I would still like to know how ANYTHING happening in Iraq is making this country safer from the threat of terrorists the likes of those responsible for 9.11. There is NOTHING in Iraq even remotely related to 9.11- no matter how much Our Glorious Leader and his minions spin and prevaricate to the contrary.
Bush’s public approval rating dipped below 40 percent at times in 2005 and rose to 47 percent in an ABC News/Washington Post poll taken after a Dec. 15 election in Iraq.
Many surveyed Americans remain skeptical about the war, which took more than 2,100 American lives and an estimated 30,000 Iraqi lives by year’s end.
Many Americans have come to recognize George W. Bush for the liar, the thug, and the demagogue he is. What I find so disturbing, is that while so many Americans advocated and demanded the impeachment and resignation of Bill Clinton for getting blowjobs in the White House, the silence over a President whose lies are responsible for so many dead Americans is deafening. It would seem that we can forgive the senseless waste of American lives, but get your helmet polished by an intern in the Oval Office and…OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!
We should be demanding that our elected representatives hold Our Glorious Leader to account for the lies and deceptions that have killed so many Americans, AND for his illegal domestic eavesdropping program. Or do most of us still think that staining an intern’s blue dress is a more serious offense that killing American soldiers?
Roughly half the people polled by CNN/USA Today recently said it was a mistake to ever send troops to Iraq.
Sure, it’s nice that people are finally coming around to the truth, but where is the anger? Where is the outrage? Where is the demand for accountability? It would seen the American sheeple care enough to recognize that Iraq was a mistake, but not enough to demand that anything actually be done about it. Nice, eh?
No wonder this Administration feels it has carte blanche, because it does. Until and unless Americans becomes angry enough to demand change and accountability, NOTHING will change…and more Americans will die in this generation’s Vietnam, a pointless war of aggression that no seems to care enough to do anything about.
