Now they’re Lying about their Lies
by Jeff Davis
Not only did George W. Bush and his little neocon friends deceive the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq, they are now deceiving them about the deceptions. Dubya and his cronies have taken to lashing out hysterically at anyone who questions their version of things, including anyone who leaks information to the media about their own un-Constitutional and pernicious practices. Several weeks ago, when the media got hold of the story that the neocon cabal had ordered and was still conducting warrantless wiretaps and surveillance of American citizens, the Bush administration’s response was to launch an intensive search for the source of the leak so he or she could be prosecuted.
The administration is now lying about its lies. It is now beyond question that the original reasons given by the President of the United States, for the invasion of Iraq were false in their entirety, and that the President and his cabal knew these reasons were bogus. Now Bush and the neocons are claiming that that it’s irresponsible to question the old excuse for the war. (Perhaps it’s even more irresponsible not to prosecute a gang of criminals who lied our nation into war.) Three years ago, George W. Bush and a small coterie of neocons and oil company executives made a conscious decision to tell lies to the American people in order to launch a foreign war of conquest. A recent Andrew Greeley article on this subject said “The president is not a man who likes to admit he was wrong. Therefore, one must cover up the mistakes.” But the problem is that George W. Bush was more than wrong. This was not an honest mistake. This was a deliberate deception on the part of a leader whose mental stability and basic sanity has come increasingly under question, even if that questioning is still being whispered under Washington’s breath.
GEORGE BUSH MUST BE IMPEACHED. The reasons for George W. Bush’s impeachment and removal from office for high crimes and misdemeanors are far more compelling than those high crimes and misdemeanors which got his predecessor Bill Clinton impeached. Following a successful impeachment it will probably be necessary for the ex-president’s confinement in a mental institution for psychiatric treatment.
Vice President Dick Cheney and the president both insisted that Iraq was trying to import “yellowcake” uranium for nuclear weapons. Then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and the vice president warned of a “mushroom cloud” over a US city. Nothing of the kind was true; these statements bore not the slightest relation to anything in the real world, and both Cheney and Rice knew it. Bush says that everyone agreed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. No, they didn’t. No one “agreed” anything of the kind. Bush was told repeatedly by the CIA and other bona fide intelligence sources that Iraq was a basket case and no threat to anyone. Relatives of Iraqi scientists told the CIA that Iraq’s nuclear program had been abandoned years ago. Bush has repeatedly said that he was the victim of “bad intelligence” or a mistake. But it wasn’t a “mistake.” It was a deliberate deception, conjured up by the neocons, which has killed and maimed thousands of Americans and over one hundred thousand Iraqis. George Bush and his associates need to face trial and punishment in a Nuremberg-style war crimes trial.
At least three-fifths of the American people now believe that George W. Bush did in fact deceive them about the Iraq War. The question arises as to whether he and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are also deceiving us on the certainty of victory in Iraq. Why will no one in the administration predict how long that will take? Why after several years of effort is there only one fully capable Iraqi unit of 750 men? It is clear that Bush and the neocons have no intention whatsoever of withdrawing from Iraq at any time in the near future, but intend to occupy Iraq as a kind of Middle Eastern Oil Company Raj like the 200-year British rule in India. The continuous construction of at least four huge permanent U.S.military bases in Iraq demonstrates this. Right now these American bases are ALL that is being built in the wretched remains of Iraq.
Every day Bush stays in office is a continued threat to world peace and the reputation of the United States. The whole world sees us as a nation that fights wars of aggression, which lies about our reasons for doing so and which tortures people in secret prisons. It will take years to repair the damage George Bush has done and the first step is to impeach Bush and his neocon cabal.