Monday, July 17, 2006

Who Still Supports Bush?

I realize that the majority of Americans now understand that the Iraq War was a terrible mistake, but a significant number still support the man who made it happen. They find excuses for his mistake. He was misled by bad intelligence. His plan may still work. He is too good a man to do evil intentionally.

To hold those beliefs, you have to give the man credit for his self description and ignore all the facts. Should we really forgive monstrously evil actions from a man just because he says that he means well or because he describes himself as a Christian? I think not!

Without a doubt, Bush lied to the nation about Iraq's possession of illegal weapons. Indeed, the entire substance of the Valerie Plame affair was to punish a whistle blower who revealed the deception and to dissuade other potential whistle blowers who might be waiting in the wings. Thus, he started a war against a nation that was no threat to us and 100,000 plus souls are dead as a result. The cost in blood and treasure of this mistake is incomprehensible and it continues to grow.

The Bush Doctrine, the one that says that it is acceptable to start a war on the slim possibility that some nation might be able to hurt us came up wrong on its first time out of the box, yet they are using the same evil logic to try to justify attacks on Iran and North Korea. I cannot abide that my country would do such evil.
Now, if all that is not enough, George Bush has been guilty of some more crimes. Let's count:
  1. Locking up American citizens as "enemy combatants" without charge or trial.
  2. Locking up and torturing citizens of other nations in a totally random way. They are accused of "terrorism" but are unable to defend themselves. We know that the vast majority of prisoners in GITMO, Abu Graib and Bagrab are innocent of any wrong doing. They were largely turned over to our forces for bounties. For enough money, anyone can be a terrorist.
  3. Kidnapping citizens of one nation and forcibly transporting them to another where they can be tortured (extraordinary rendition).
  4. Wiretapping international phone calls without a warrant when warrants are trivially easy to get.
  5. Recording phone numbers called by nearly everyone in the nation under the excuse of searching for terrorists. The process they claim to use cannot work. False alarms would swamp the system. The only use of that data is to search for dirt on specific individuals. Reminds me of the Nixon enemies list.
  6. Searching through financial data of nearly everyone. See number 5.

To all you folks out there that still think that Bush is a good Christian soul and can do no wrong, please think again. The nation can not survive this evil and remain free. Impeachment, removal from office and prison is the only option.

1 comment:

Federalist said...

As much as I detest some of what goes on, I still support our government and what it stands for. I supported Presdient Clinton, especially when he was being impeached (he was wrong, he lied, but I don't think the country needed the impeachment trial), and was embarrased by my party's witch hunt.

I can find an awful lot of complaining on the web. What I don't see is:

1. Education
2. Suggestions for change

And if the change is to get rid of Bush, then you have a lot more to get rid of too.

Once you define yourself in the public arena, you become an easy target.

What example do we have today of a good leader or politician where the other side is not howling for their necks ?

How many good people avoid this tornado we call political life because the debris is just to thick and it seems that all it does is destroy (people).

If there is a basis for a complaint in Constitutional law, then I am all ears.

SLW