Bush's
Plea For Help
We
do not need the United
Nations, Bush seemed to say when we invaded
and suppo-sedly conquered the troubled nation
of Iraq. We do not need anybody, because
we are the United States.
Now,
while our nation's armed forces are continually
under siege by a force that we never expected
to fight back, our nation's leaders finally
decide that maybe we do need help. But with
how boisterously Bush declared the necessity
for war and then his declaration of the
penultimate victory, he has not crowed as
loudly that the armed forces just can't
handle it.
What
nation knows the outcome of a guerilla war
more than us? Vietnam proved that we could
feed endless amounts of soldiers into another
people's homeland and they would still defeat
us. Our own war for independence was fought
using similar tactics. Blend in; use
your advantages, these are the same tactics
the Iraqi's are using against us now.
We
may call these coward tactics and wonder
why they are blowing us up with car-bombs
and attacking our soldiers in small skirmishes,
but what nation has not done the same to
rid itself of perceived enemies.
The
really great part about it is that our supposed
"exit strategy," or any strategy
for that matter, is that it seems to be
obsolete. The infrastructure is barely being
patched up so that people have power and
all the basic facilities. How do we expect
people to live happily under our rule when
we cannot even take care of them? Hasn't
the Halliburton Oil Company and all the
other President's corporate sponsors gotten
in there and fixed stuff up yet, or are
they still trying to figure out how to make
the biggest buck from the littlest amount
of effort?
The
war was embarrassing, but the aftermath
has been despicable. Our nations government,
so strong and fierce, with country songs
justifying our backlash and stickers proclaiming
our patriotism, has been hypocritical. To
call the United Nations obsolete six months
ago and now be slipping secretly into its
halls asking for help.
The
Bush administration owes this nation and
all other nations
an apology.
The
hordes of soldiers that have been lied to
and sent to attack a nation where weapons
of mass destruction still have not been
found deserve an apology. The citizens of
America who wrongly believed in Bush's lies,
whether about Iraq buying Uranium or affiliations
between Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, deserve
an apology.
More
than anything, more than lies or corporate
connections or bad economies or environmental
decimation or questionable Supreme Court
candidates, did I mention lies? We cannot
let Bush get away with all these shenanigans
and still have his approval ratings go up.
Is anybody paying attention?
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