Since the 2003 U.S.-led INVASION, BUSH's speeches never meant what he
says. His lies and false accusations are essential in order to achieve the
unconstitutional goals of the current neocon-filled administration, control
the public and keep the U.S. engaged in war.
Despite the growing IRAQI and U.S. casualties, the AMERICAN PRESIDENT
recently praised the continued progress in the war-torn country. In a
classic Bushspeak, he declared in pure delusion that "when victory comes and
democracy takes hold in IRAQ, it will serve as a model for freedom in the
broader Middle East".
Can we really believe that INVASION and occupation of a sovereign
state for fabricated reasons ever lead to freedom and democracy?
In a Jan. 10 speech, BUSH made clear that war opponents who continue
to raise questions about legality of the INVASION can expect to pay a price.
"We must remember there is a difference between responsible and
irresponsible debate," he said.
According to an article on Counterbias.com, BUSH's "irresponsible"
debates include questions about whether IRAQ's oil supplies and Israel's
security were primary reasons for the INVASION. Off the table, too, is
whether Washington lied in citing IRAQ's WMD and alleged ties to AL-QAEDA as
justifications for WAR, despite growing evidence that the "intelligence and
facts were being fixed around the policy," as the head of the MI-6 concluded
in the so-called "Downing Street Memo" in July 2002.
In another speech, given on Jan. 11, the U.S. President repeated one
of his favorite lies about IRAQ WAR; that SADDAM HUSSEIN chose WAR when he
refused to let UN arms inspectors search his country. (In reality, SADDAM
opened up his country to UN inspectors in November 2002 and allowed them to
search wherever they wanted for the WMD that even BUSH's own inspectors
later concluded wasn't there.)
"I felt it was important to say to the world that this international
body (The United Nations), that we want to be effective, spoke loud and
clear not once, but 15 odd times to SADDAM HUSSEIN - said, 'disarm, get rid
of your weapons, don't be the threat that you are, or face serious
consequences'.. We gave the opportunity to SADDAM HUSSEIN to open his
country up. It was his choice. He chose war, and he got war." BUSH here
repeats a fictional account of the run-up to WAR. The fake story also
suggests that the INVASION was sanctioned by the UN, rather than in
violation of its Charter.
The President also repeated the greatest lie of our times when he
stressed that IRAQ WAR was a response to the Sept. 11 attacks. This lie was
revealed after Jerry Caufield, a BUSH campaign aide who later worked at the
White House, said that the President was obsessed with "getting SADDAM,"
even before he came into office. "We'd be on the campaign plane talking
about domestic issues and he'd change the subject and start rattling on
about what a great evil SADDAM HUSSEIN was and how if he won the election
he'd finish what his father failed to do -- topple SADDAM," Caufield said.
a.. "War on Terrorism"
In an older speech on the U.S.'s "WAR On TERRORISM", given on October
6, 2005, and repeated on October 28, BUSH said: "All these separate images
of destruction and suffering that we see on the news can seem like random
and isolated acts of madness. Yet while the killers choose their victims
indiscriminately, their attacks serve a clear and focused ideology, a set of
beliefs and goals that are evil, but not insane. "
This only could be interpreted the opposite way. One question needs to
be answered; How is it possible to choose victims more indiscriminately than
by bombing residential areas?
The U.S. army doesn't even attempt to count CIVILIAN CASUALTIES in
Iraq. Since the WAR began, two serious efforts have been made to count the
civilian death toll of the barbarism called "Shock and Awe"; the first
counted bodies all over Iraq hospitals and came up with more than 30,000
killed. The second is a more scientific study of Iraq's national mortality
tables, published in the British medical journal Lancet, which said that
more 100,000 died since the U.S.-led INVASION.
"Now they've set their sights on IRAQ. BIN LADEN has stated: "The
whole world is watching this war and the two adversaries. It's either
victory and glory, or misery and humiliation." The terrorists regard IRAQ as
the central front in their war against humanity. And we must recognize IRAQ
as the central front in our war on terror."
BUSH here uses a dubious quote from BIN LADEN with an absurd
conclusion. The U.S. President always confuses the Iraqi resistance with
terrorism in other places. In fact, before the INVASION, there were no
terrorists in IRAQ, and the toppled Iraqi leader had no ties whatsoever with
the AL-QAEDA network. By invading the country, the U.S. created the enemy
that it wanted to eliminate. The head of Canada's intelligence service,
CSIS, said that post-war IRAQ has become a training ground for thousands who
will threaten Western security for years to come. We all have BUSH to thank
for such a development.
"[President BUSH] is trying to fight this war with rhetoric. IRAQ is
not where the center of terrorism is," said Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), the
former Marine who is an outspoken critic of the war. "We're inciting
terrorism there....We're destabilizing the area by being over there," he
added.
In the same speech, BUSH said that the terrorists are exploiting
"local conflicts to build a culture of victimization, in which someone else
is always to blame and violence is always the solution."
A culture of victimization; One cannot come up with anything that
better describe the U.S.'s reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks. Some twenty
people committed a horrible crime. Instead of seeking those responsible,
BUSH launched two wars he promises to continue for years to come.
"He (BIN LADEN) assures them that his -- that this is the road to
paradise -- though he never offers to go along for the ride." This quote is
coming from someone who avoided combat in VIETNAM, someone whose National
Guard records have been mutilated, presumably to hide failings.
"With every random bombing and with every funeral of a child, it
becomes more clear that the extremists are not patriots, or resistance
fighters -- they are murderers at war with the Iraqi people, themselves."
These people are mainly on one side in a civil war created by the INVASION,
and history proves that civil wars are always the worst wars.
"Iraqi soldiers are sacrificing to defeat al Qaeda in their own
country." AL-QAEDA? Is this the real enemy the U.S. is fighting in IRAQ? Of
course not, even BUSH doesn't believe this. The occupation often leads to
retaliation against a clearly-defined target. BUSH's enemies in IRAQ include
resistance fighters, native minority groups whose interests are threatened
by the puppet government he installed, and of course, many angry young men
who condemn the illegal INVASION.
Finally, the term "WAR On TERRORISM" is perhaps the darkest example of
Bushspeak. One cannot launch war on ideas, beliefs, or feelings of grievance
and injustice. The "WAR On TERRORISM" is code for interference in the Middle
East. "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise
of fighting a foreign enemy," -- James Madison, the fourth President of the
United States. By launching the "WAR On TERRORISM", the U.S produced an
abundant supply of the so-called "foreign enemies".
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