A headline says that Bush argues Iraq report does not signal war is lost.
Of course he will say this. If he admits the report is accurate then he would have to admit to failure. If he admits failure then he will have failed his daddy’s honor. And let’s face it, this is the true reason George the Second so callously took this nation to war. His own misguided ‘sense of honor’ to right the wrong in what his daddy should have done during his little war. Clearly, George the First should have taken out Saddam Hussein when he had the chance. But honor would not allow him to. George the Second is not ‘hindered‘ with honor. This is why he was chosen by the political powers to ‘right this wrong’. He used American soldiers to ‘assassinate’ a foreign head of state. Something this country has sworn never to do. Sure, no one walked up to Saddam and placed a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. He used the anger of the Iraqi people under the promise of a democratic government to do it.
George the Second has sent many American soldiers to their deaths to carry out his goals and he continues to cost even more American lives because he refuses to quit.
George the Second is not man enough to stand on his own and admit he made a mistake in going after Saddam. That would require that he admit to lying to the American people when he ‘interpreted’ another report to meet his agenda. That report, which came from our very own CIA, told him there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He chose to believe otherwise. Now, instead of admitting he was wrong and stopping this senseless taking of Americans lives and of Iraqi lives and of destroying a once beautiful nation and culture, he stubbornly sides with military advisors who will never admit defeat and who clearly have their own agenda (which is to go down in the history books as the greatest warriors ever. This is what all military leaders aspire to. Hell, it’s the only thing they can aspire to.)
He thought he could pull a ‘John Wayne’ and save his daddy’s honor and the honor of the American people. He is too blind to see that he has done nothing more than to eroded even further the perception of what America truly stands for. Since you Bushites have ‘forgotten’ what America stands for, let me tell you.
We stand for freedom. In fighting to maintain our freedom, we have earned honor. Sadly, we are not honoring ourselves by fighting in Iraq. We are not honoring ourselves by fighting in Afghanistan.
I love America. I salute and praise our brave American soldiers. They do only what they are told to do and go where they are told to go. I write these essays in an attempt to find the right words to express how we are failing the memory of all of those who have fought wearing the American military uniform during times when our freedom was in jeopardy. Our freedom is not in jeopardy in Iraq. Our freedom is not in jeopardy in Afghanistan. If we ‘lose’ the fight in these countries we do not ‘lose’ any freedom.
Our honor is what is at stake in these countries, but only because George the Second keeps us in these places. The people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Iran, and the rest of the world know the reason we are fighting in these countries. They know that honor has nothing to do with it. We are still in Iraq because a handful of American financial interests are still making lots of money. We are still fighting in Afghanistan because we are trying to get revenge against Osama bin Laden. We are ‘winning’ shamelessly in Iraq and failing miserably in Afghanistan. Neither of these deployments bring honor to the American people.
We don’t need the military to restore honor to the U.S. The military is but one part of the overall makeup of a true America, not the only one, George. We broke away from a nation that was ruled by tyrants, such as yourself, intent on spreading their form of government throughout the world. We broke away because we were tired of suffering at the hands of a ruling class elite that refused to represent what ‘we the people’ wanted.
The people who formed America over 200 years ago wanted nothing of spreading their form of rule to the rest of the world. They wanted nothing more than to live their lives in peace without being taxed to death and without having to live under the watchful eye of a government who is supposed to protect us. Are our taxes too high? For what we get in return for those taxes, the answer is a resounding yes! Do we live under the watchful eye of the government? When we have to worry about what we say to one another for fear of being hauled into jail and interrogated under the auspice of some ‘terrorism law’ that this president wants to enforce, the answer is another resounding yes! Is this government protecting us? When it has become unsafe for Americans to travel anywhere in the world because of our governments policies, then the answer is a resounding no!
This, ladies and gentlemen, is not the America I wish to live in.
When this president, any president, can override judicial decisions, interpret reports differently from what experts say in order to meet his own agenda, circumvent laws by ‘presidential decree’, or decide that ‘we the people’ don’t really know what is best for us then we need to remove that president lest we fall into the feudal system days of pre-America, land of the free.
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