It should be pretty clear to everyone by now that President Bush
has lied to and deliberately misled the people of the United States
regarding the prewar situation in Iraq. Even conservative news show
host Bill O’Reilly recently apologized for supporting the Bush Iraq
WMD deception.
It should be pretty clear to everyone by now that President Bush has lied to and deliberately misled the people of the United States regarding the prewar situation in Iraq. Even conservative news show host Bill O’Reilly recently apologized for supporting the Bush Iraq WMD deception.
Recent statements and documentation from the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies indicate that Bush was told repeatedly that there was no definitive evidence that Iraq possessed any weapons of mass destruction. Bush certainly knew Iraq was not a nuclear threat. Bush absolutely knew there was no Iraq connection to 9/11 or Al Qaida. Iraq posed no imminent danger to the United States and was making no aggressive actions toward her neighbors.
As the smoke clears, it seems there was no real case for Bush’s pre-emptive war and yet as of this writing 540 U.S. armed service people are now dead, with well over 3,000 wounded, over 8,000 innocent Iraqi civilians are dead, and Iraq has been laid to waste, the body count increasing every day with no end in sight. And at what price tag? Over $100 billion “to date” leaving an immense festering open wound still hemorrhaging 5 billion U.S. tax dollars a month at the current run rate. The Iraqi people will suffer horrible terminal ills and other ramifications from this devastation for years, and before the wound heals, hundreds of thousands more will die from malnutrition, land mines, disease and low-level radiation exposure due to leftovers from our “smart” bombs.
And Bush, who used his family influence and privilege to get out of service in the Vietnam war, has the unmitigated arrogance to send our men and women to their death in a war for profit and revenge, and then to try and take credit for their bravery, crying out, “Bring it on” as if he is somehow, or ever has been in harms way for his country.
Our lawmakers in Washington should immediately censure President Bush for misleading us into this unnecessary “pre-emptive” war, as we consider additional remedies to bring those to justice responsible for the nearly 10,000 innocents already taken in the horrible destruction wrought on Iraq.
Pray for peace.
Ben James Yokel,
Santa Cruz
