Listening to Bush at the Pentagon this morning on the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, one would be generous to brand this callow and disingenuous performance as that of a braying ass.
The truth is that this war has shattered the lives of 100,000s of Americans and millions of Iraqis, in a calculated set of lies with consequences so grave that one struggles to find the appropriate words of condemnation.
Juan Cole gives us a start in Salon. How President Bush and his advisors have spent each year of the war peddling mendacious tales about a mission accomplished
Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, who retired in late 2002, is the "three-star Marine Corps general who was the military's top operations officer before the invasion," has "urged active-duty officers to speak out now if they had doubts about the war." [NYT, April 10, 2006] Wrote Newbold:
The truth is that this war has shattered the lives of 100,000s of Americans and millions of Iraqis, in a calculated set of lies with consequences so grave that one struggles to find the appropriate words of condemnation.
Juan Cole gives us a start in Salon. How President Bush and his advisors have spent each year of the war peddling mendacious tales about a mission accomplished
Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, who retired in late 2002, is the "three-star Marine Corps general who was the military's top operations officer before the invasion," has "urged active-duty officers to speak out now if they had doubts about the war." [NYT, April 10, 2006] Wrote Newbold:
Bush's decision to invade Iraq "was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions —or bury the results."
There is no way for us to understand the Bush regime's willingness to lie and sacrifice fellow human beings, as they speak about freedom and liberty—rights and inherent dignity of human beings that Bush and his minions neither understand nor appreciate.
What we do know is that Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld, Cheney and everyone who played along with these people, and that includes Senators Clinton, Biden, Kerry, Edwards, Kohl, the whole lot of them, ought to begin to make reparations by actively resisting the continuation of this obscenity.
What we do know is that Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld, Cheney and everyone who played along with these people, and that includes Senators Clinton, Biden, Kerry, Edwards, Kohl, the whole lot of them, ought to begin to make reparations by actively resisting the continuation of this obscenity.
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