Michael Moore asked a very valid question in his book “Dude, Where’s My Country”. He asked which is a worst lie for the President of the country to tell the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman or Iraq had direct lies with Al-Qaeda and has weapons of mass destruction. Bill Clinton was caught lying under oath and got himself impeached. Lying is not a quality fit for a position such as the President. But my question is which quality would you rather have in a president? One who lies about his sex-life or one who lies to get a war he has always wanted, even if it meant sacrificing some innocent lives?
Many people claim that the so-called “President” didn’t lie about his justifying of an invasion of Iraq, which he simply went through with a war based on the intelligence that was provided to him, and acted accordingly.
Mr. Bush would call this luck, if this is true. George Bush spoke many times, pre-9-11, about his plans of starting war with Iraq and Saddam Hussein. According to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, the Bush and his cohorts began planning of ways to invade the Middle Eastern country since January 2001. Mr. Bush, isn’t January before September? You may not be able to read a speech correctly, but I have to believe you can read a calendar.
O’Neill told the Boston Globe in 2004, “From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go.”1 This idea O’Neill told the Globe is not foreign. In fact this sort of thinking from Bush is all too familiar. In fact, O’Neill is not the only one to come forward about Bush’s dreams of a war with Iraq. Author and journalist Mickey Herskowitz recalls his talks of war in 1999. She reveals that Bush always expressed his disappointment with his father, not taking a perfect opportunity to invade Iraq. She quotes Bush himself as saying, “If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency…2”.
Knowing that the “President” wanted a war all along isn’t it also possible to believe that if there were any sort of terrorist threats to the country involving the Middle East, with the help of fear mongering, it could easily be manipulated to point the finger at Iraq. Mr. Bush, what went through your head when you read the Presidential Daily Brief of August 6th, 2001? You may not remember. The memo you got before September 11, 2001, and if I may quote from that memo:
“Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.”3
This is what is known as a “terrorist threat”. You would have known this if you attended at least one counter terrorism meeting.4 Maybe you couldn’t make it, as you spent more vacation than any other president. Maybe you were too busy cutting anti-terrorism funding from the F.B.I. How do you justify the cutting of 12%5 to counter-terrorism? That translated to about $65 million, and you are supposed to act surprised that an attack that killed 3,000 innocent American lives could ever happen.
As many blow this off as “radical thinking”, what can the facts do from there? I guess it is up to you. Spread the message, and never be afraid of the truth. Facts have a tendency to have a harsh “liberal” bias.