Our
View: Hypocrites should not prosper
In
another Bush administration patch-up, Bush
seems to have recanted his claims that ousted
despot Saddam Hussein was indeed integrally
linked to both al-Qaeda and the devastating
attacks on Sept. 3. In the months before
his attempted re-election, Bush has realized
that the inconsistencies and fibs he has
created, whether to garner support for his
ill-begotten war or his failing economic
policy, may start to catch up with him.
When
after four glorious years he has accomplished
little except throwing our once flourishing
economy into a sink hole and threatening
to revoke many of our basic civil liberties
to "protect" us from further mishap,
maybe his people have given him the heads
up. He is going to need a better answer
than that Jesus is his favorite philosopher
to get re-elected in 2004.
Some
of his main assertions for going to war
with Iraq were both enthusiastic certainty
that weapons of mass destruction were being
produced in Iraq and also of course "saving"
the Iraqi people -- although they don't
seem to want our "help" now. And
then later when support for the war began
to slack Bush proposed the newly fabricated
connection between Saddam and bin Laden.
This
is laughable due to the secular nature of
Hussein's dictatorship and his brutal suppression
of a large portion of the Muslim population
in Iraq, which might have angered bin Laden,
since he is a religious beacon to many in
the Middle East. Despite the similar outcries
made at the time of the association made
by Bush that the two men have nothing in
common and could quite possibly hate each
other due to differences in view, Bush continued
misleading America to believe that these
two men were cohorts of sorts.
Some
theories on why Bush might have made this
connection? First, to suit his own agenda
of course. Second because with the dreaded
Osama still on the loose after all our efforts
in Afghanistan came to nothing, Bush needed
a head on his wall so as not to look like
the fool. Now he comes out, not to admit
that he made a false claim, but to deny
that he ever made one at all.
When
will Bush stop saying one thing, meaning
another and then after six months denying
it all? People need to wake the government
up to the fact that we won't be duped any
more, at least not by Bush for another four
years.
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