Bush, “ass” and Iraq

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http://newsfromrussia.com/opinion/columnists/06-09-2007/96845-bushassiraq-0

Bush, “ass” and Iraq

“We’re kicking ass in Iraq” was the reported statement by President Bush during his visit to Australia. Whether or not he said it, this is the message the controlled press have instilled in the hearts and minds of the population in the USA and in the handful of sycophantic nations which supported this outrageous and illegal act of butchery.

For the controlled press, Iraq was a country living in chaos, ruled by a bloodthirsty dictator, who murdered at whim and ran a terrorist network allied to Al Qaeda, which posed an “immediate threat” to the USA and its allies through its “WMD”.

Nothing was said about the US-led sanctions, which between 1990 and 2003 caused starvation and disease, victimising a substantial proportion of the population (mostly children), nothing was said of the heroic efforts of the Iraqi government to try to guarantee access to drinking water, education, free and excellent healthcare (a reference in the modern world), the highest proportion of dentists per capita, among other remarkable achievements in the most progressive state in the Middle East. Nothing was said of the hatred between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

Nothing is now said about the effects of these 13 years of cruelty, complete with acts of terrorism by NATO forces, and the result of the criminal act of mass murder launched by the Bush regime in March 2003, which transformed a once modern, forward-looking, secular and industrialising nation into a backward, medieval state ruled by political islamists. Nothing is said of women’s rights in the Iraq of today, where girls can be raped or decapitated in daylight because they dare to venture out without a veil.

If “kicking ass” is creating a scenario whereby billions and billions of dollars (and Congress is today being presented with requests for more) of the US citizens’ hard-earned wages are poured into a black hole of corruption (the Iraqi govenment, which dares not to venture beyond the refines of the Green Zone in Baghdad), if “kicking ass” is targeting civilian structures with military hardware, then George Bush proves that he indeed reunites the worst qualities of the cowboy clown-statesman the world feared back in 2000.

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1. Isn't he the most arrogant SOB you've ever heard?

Over on the CNN "Ticker" on their home page they're picking him apart.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/