Robert Parry: Powell Belies 'Commander Guy' Bush

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/061007.html

Powell Belies 'Commander Guy' Bush

By Robert Parry
June 10, 2007

For the past several months, the Washington press corps has dutifully reported George W. Bush’s attack on Democrats as politicians who wish to impose their Iraq War judgments on the military commanders in the field.

According to Bush, the Democrats think that U.S. commanders in Iraq should “take fighting directions from politicians 6,000 miles away in Washington, D.C.,” while he by contrast is “a commander guy” who follows the advice of military men on the front lines.

Very few U.S. journalists have dared to contradict this presidential fiction, even though they watched in December and January as Bush spurned the advice of virtually all his top commanders before adopting recommendations of neoconservative theorists for a “surge” in U.S. forces. Bush then fired key commanders who opposed him.

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No press uproar followed his “commander guy” comment just as there was no protest over the past four years whenever Bush insisted that Saddam Hussein didn’t let U.N. inspectors into Iraq before the invasion. (For details on that fib, see Consortiumnews.com’s “GOP/Media Rewrite Iraq War History.”)

But now on “Meet the Press,” a high-profile Washington news show, media darling Colin Powell has spelled out that Bush repudiated the counsel of virtually every senior commander in order to clear the way for a neoconservative scheme that has escalated the pace of U.S. military deaths in Iraq, which now exceed 3,500.

Many Americans, however, won’t be surprised if the U.S. press corps still manages to look the other way and leave the responsibility of pointing out these unpleasant facts to Internet sites and blogs.

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1. How's Haiti colin?

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2. Well, lets get those bloggers busy.

Its more than enough, this Paris Hilton nonsense. Its time that bloggers sit down and flood the internet with truth and rationality to a degree that working journalists can no longer ignore or deny. Its time to post the blogs on the various points of the internet and to snail mail those same blogs right to the offices of those targeted by them. By that I mean every damn congressman and senator, every state official, every member of the armed forces and not only that.....we have to learn to slapdown those neocons and Christian righties who try to answer back.

Damn, a vast majority of Americans opposes this war......that same vast majority opposes the policies and actions of Commander Guy. The call for impeachment of Bush and Cheney grows louder and more insistent by the day. To me, this says have have the power and the numbers to call the shots and the right to insist that our elected officials obey the wishes of those who put them in office or go find work elsewhere.

This is pretty basic stuff that I am saying but because it is basic, far too many people ignore it. We have to remind people about what a onetime very prominent Republican said.....this is "a government of the people, by the people and for the people." and this is is not a government of the corporations, by the wingnuts and for the Bushies.

We need planners, tacticians, speakers, writers and anybody else who understand the situation to get off their duffs NOW and get to work to change things. We cant be polite or good-goodies or chicken-hearted. We have to be Americans who truly understand what America is all about.

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3. kicked and recommended....