President George Bush marked the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War/Occupation with a speech at the Pentagon. With all that we have come to know about what has occurred in Iraq since shock and awe began, I can only read Bush's words with a sense of mortification.
Here are a few excerpts.
President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror
The men and women who crossed into Iraq five years ago removed a tyrant, liberated a country, and rescued millions from unspeakable horrors....
Because we acted, Saddam Hussein no longer fills fields with the remains of innocent men, women and children. Because we acted, Saddam's torture chambers and rape rooms and children's prisons have been closed for good. Because we acted, Saddam's regime is no longer invading its neighbors or attacking them with chemical weapons and ballistic missiles. Because we acted, Saddam's regime is no longer paying the families of suicide bombers in the Holy Land. Because we acted, Saddam's regime is no longer shooting at American and British aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones and defying the will of the United Nations. Because we acted, the world is better and United States of America is safer. (Applause.)
The battle in Iraq has been longer and harder and more costly than we anticipated -- but it is a fight we must win.
The terrorist movement feeds on a sense of inevitability, and claims to rise on the tide of history. The accomplishments of the surge in Iraq are exposing this myth and discrediting the extremists.
2 comments:
It curious, you can take every word he said and describe his own actions as being the source of the same problems.
Somehow, the authoritarian personality does not understand the reflection in the mirror.
I can't believe he is completely lacking in that sense of reflection but apparently he is.
Thats what makes him barely human. To be truly sentient you need to be emotionally self-reflective. He's like Duke Valdimir Von Harkonen in Dune a "human animal." He has absolutely no spiritual depth. He's emotionally blind. Yes, we have a blind man leading us and its all of our fault for allowing it.
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