George Bush, Big Dreams, Bigger Lies, Bad Memory

[unhappycamper]

I'm looking thru Maine newspapers for their take on the Kennebunkport protest Saturday, and came across this LTTE:


George Bush, Big Dreams, Bigger Lies, Bad Memory
By Jim Ridout
Aug 26, 2007 - 6:34:04 PM


On Monday August 27th George Bush is scheduled to continue his lying ways during a speech to be made here in Albuquerque to rally other liars to support his dream of the unending war in Iraq. Now to be clear George Bush is scheduled to speak in Rancho de Albuquerque on Rio Grande Blvd. To the rest of the country this will look like a place where us commoners or hicks (to borrow from the movie "All the Kings Men") reside. But ladies and gentlemen this is not so, this is the land of the wealthy. A place where land alone may cost as much as $400,000 per acre, because it is green and it is near a river, and Albuquerque is high desert. And like in the 1949 movie "All the Kings Men" George wants his spurious supporters to shout, "George's law is our law".

In what appears to be analogous to the snake eating its own body, George Bush who at one point declared the comparison between Vietnam and Iraq absurd has now chosen that analogy as one of his central themes in justifying the Morass of Iraq. George Bush has chosen how Vietnam ended as a reason for us to continue in Iraq, laughable.

George Bush misled us into the war in Iraq, he invaded a sovereign nation, he spared the life of own known enemy, he has ruined the lives of millions of people, he has ruined our reputation, he has cost us thousands dead and tens of thousands wounded, he has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, he has spent what will be a TRILLION DOLLARS on his lie, and he has made a brutal dictator look benevolent. And now George Bush has blamed the Iraqi people and their leadership for being unable to control the chaos he has created, with right wing groups actually campaigning within our government to install Iyad Allawi (also known as six gun) into the leadership of a sovereign nation, and that is their idea of democracy? Vietnam? Really?

Let's take a little walk down memory lane, also known as history. In 1945 (remember 1945, with World War II ending, defeating Japan?), with Japan defeated they withdrew from the former French colony of Vietnam and Vietnam under the leadership of Ho Chi Min declared their independence. They borrowed from our own Declaration of Independence and theirs began "All men are created equal", and then listed their grievances against the French government, in much the same way as we did in 1776.

Ah but the powers that were wanted no part of an independent Vietnam, and the English went to the south and the Chinese to the north. In 1945 Ho Chi Min wrote 8 letters to then President Truman speaking of self-determination, that 2 million Vietnamese has starved to death under French oppression, and asking for humanitarian discussions, to which Truman never replied.

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The analogies between Iraq and Vietnam are not justifications to remain but are reasons we need to leave. The emotional scenes of those we left behind standing on rooftops in Vietnam and the misery George Bush has created in the neighborhoods of Iraq are not linked through our unwillingness as a nation to help those in need, but rather by the lies and deceptions of our leaders as we as a nation were misled into these conflicts. George Bush, like Lyndon Johnson before him lied, plain and simple. There is no clear answer to the quagmire (as Cheney so described the result of an invasion of Iraq years ago) known as Iraq, but the place to begin is with the truth and oust those men with big dreams, bigger lies, and bad memories. Oh, and by the way, Vietnam from what I hear is lovely.


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