Bush Blows It Again
By Charley Reese
King Features Syndicate
4-17-4
President George W. Bush continues to mislead the American people as
to the cause of terrorism directed against the United States.
This week he guaranteed that more Americans will die from terrorist
attacks due to his stabbing the Palestinians in the back. He has from
the beginning acted as if he were a ventriloquist's dummy and Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon were the ventriloquist.
He proved it again by buying into Sharon's scheme to steal great globs
of Palestinian land in the West Bank, and by arrogantly denying the
right of Palestinian refugees to return home or be compensated. Israel
has no legal right to the land occupied by settlements; the whole
world recognizes this and has for decades. The United States used to
recognize it until Bush decided to kiss the most ample part of
Sharon's anatomy.
How dare George Bush tell Palestinian refugees, ethnically cleansed in
1947-48 and again in 1967, that they have no rights? What unmitigated
gall and arrogance he shows, what contempt for the Palestinians and
indeed for the whole Muslim world. When did God give George Bush the
power to abolish the human rights of other people?
It's no wonder he has to lie through his teeth to try to explain
terrorism. We are not victims of terrorism because terrorists hate us
or democracy or freedom. We are victims of terrorism because George
Bush's policies inflict grievous harm on Palestinians, on Afghans and
on Iraqis.
One hates to say it, but Osama bin Laden makes more sense than Bush.
If you doubt the role of our support for Israel's brutalizing
Palestine in causing terrorism, listen to what bin Laden says:
"The greatest rule of safety is justice, and stopping injustice and
aggression. It was said: Oppression kills the oppressors, and the
hotbed of injustice is evil. The situation in occupied Palestine is an
example. What happened on 11 September and 11 March (the Madrid
bombings) is your commodity returned to you."
In plainer English, the more the Israelis shed Palestinian blood with
our unadulterated support, the more of our blood bin Laden hopes to
shed. He says quite plainly - addressing himself to the people instead
of politicians - why don't you stop shedding our blood so we can stop
shedding yours?
He scoffs at being called a terrorist and says, "Our acts are reaction
to your own acts, which are represented by the destruction and killing
of our kinfolk in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine."
He goes on to say that rational people would not sacrifice their
security, their money and their children "to please the liar of the
White House. Had he been truthful about his claim for peace, he would
not describe the person who ripped open pregnant women in Sabra and
Shatila (a reference to Sharon) and the destroyer of the capitulation
process (a reference to the peace process) as a man of peace."
Bin Laden says further: "He also would not have lied to people and
said that we hate freedom and kill for the sake of killing. Reality
proves our truthfulness and his lie. The killing of Russians was after
their invasion of Afghanistan and Chechnya; the killing of Europeans
was after their invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan; and the killing of
Americans on the day of New York was after their support of the Jews
in Palestine and their invasion of the Arabian Peninsula."
As much as you might hate bin Laden, he is telling the truth about the
cause of the conflict, and Bush is lying.
Bush ought to come clean and tell the American people the truth about
why we are in this war instead of spreading the lie that we were just
innocent bystanders picked on by madmen. Even terrorists have rational
reasons for what they do.
Bush is following the Israeli example. Rather than address the cause
of the problem, he just tries to kill his way out of it. That policy
has failed the Israelis, and it will fail us.
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