I used to be a firm supporter of President Bush, not so anymore, and it’s been that way for quite some time.
It all began several months after he took office, when he decided to give up conservative principals and let senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts dictate the education bill. Next he let senator McCain and senator Feingold get away with the campaign finance reform bill, vowing to veto it, which he did not do. This stifled free speech near an election for lobby groups, but not individuals, which didn’t matter because an individual would be hard pressed to disseminate information widely on his own. Therefore information found to be negative or positive couldn’t be disbursed, and the voter would then vote ill informed. What happened to free speech in the constitution? It looks like a little more of it bit the dust. Nothing in the wind is evident to encourage us that congress wants to right the wrong, they just don’t care.
Then there was that far away land called Afghanistan, do you remember that one? There we went after the terrorists and demolished the Taliban and it’s hold on those people. Great start, but when we couldn’t find and kill Osama Bin Laden even with our bunker buster bombs, President Bush gave us all kinds of reasons that it was imperative we attack Iraq right away; any delay would cause us harm in the homeland. It was an effective way to get our minds off Afghanistan; the sales pitch was also effective because it worked, he was able to get most of congress behind him to authorize it. The only thing left to do was to declare a victory in Afghanistan, leave a few soldiers there, and then totally forget about it.
President Bush’s handling of the Iraqi war, along with his generals, who were able to get in there quickly and effectively, was incompetent, and they lost the ability to make good judgments on the course and strategy needed to finish it. I was getting so tired of hearing from the president, and his subordinates that the war was going well and we were making progress. We all could see from a distance that it was not. His assessment of the progress of the war gave the perception to observers that he was a light weight in intellect because; he was supposed to have all kinds of evidence to guide his decisions. But his perception of the war became more and more distant, along with those around him, from what the public in America and around the world believed.
It has become more apparent in recent months that his attempt to build a democracy in Iraq as a stepping stone to more democracies in the region has failed, and that, that, may have been a primary reason to attack Iraq in the first place. Having to go to war there to stop Saddam from killing thousands of his countrymen is an ingenuous and a very weak reason he has used because there are numerous regions in the world, even today, where mass killings are occurring. Those atrocities haven’t stirred his interest or compassion enough to lead the world in stopping them. Therefore, his compassion for the Iraqi people, has as a reason, become irrelevant to the discussion. Unless of course he wants to admit that for Iraqis’ he has that compassion, but not for others.
We all see that he has failed in Iraq, and now is forced to admit it, although he is still going to try for success, doing the things he should have been doing long long ago.
At this time, again as is typical, he needs to divert our attention away from pressing matters like Iran and it’s nuclear program and give us back Afghanistan, where he should have stayed to finish the job. I’m sure he won’t admit that he left the country too early to pursue other interests. He must remember to keep the public distracted as too much is being exposed of past actions in government which, if disseminated widely, might impede his current policies and actions, or bring about harsh criticisms.
One piece of information distributed is the quiet release of a US State Department 33-year old cable which showed that the department kept secret that Yasser Arafat, who invented global terrorism, the Fatah in 1959, ordered an attack, where the Fatah terrorists kidnapped, then killed, US senior foreign officials the following day. Arafat of course denied involvement, and over the years efforts to try him for murder were fruitless. But for some reason or other he prevailed to dupe many presidents, even after his death the lie persists that Arafat has come around; it still persists to this day. The full article written by Caroline B. Glick entitled “With the quiet release of a 33-year-old US State Department cable, a good chunk of the edifice of the long-running big lie was destroyed”, as found in Jewish World Review, dated Jan.2,2007.
So now we continue to play their game, giving billions of taxpayer dollars to Fatah, through Abbas in Palestine. Fatah has stated some of the weapons will be used for the intended purpose but that most will be distributed and used against Israel. But then a deal is a deal and the USA still went through with the deal. What next?. . . I wonder. . ., What next? From the kinds of decisions made by our elected officials, I am becoming more skeptical of their efforts to acquire a peace in that region, or any other region; in order, instead, to maintain conflict, giving us someone or something to fear and despise, to fight against, so ultimately a need for a massive global enterprise/authority could be initiated to rule, control, and punish infraction of their laws, in the name of stability and peace. With massive chaos in the world we all my agree to abandon our constitution, as we have, in a limited sense, done already. Giving up freedoms for security is not the answer to security, it just gives despots who think they have all the answers to life and living, the ability to control the masses in any way they please.
Looking at the whole world picture, from the events that transpire from decisions made, it is definitely… … getting more and more interesting,… but more so….. unsettling to the psyche and the soul. Till next time, I’ll still be looking at the world and wondering… Juris
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