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It is no accident that this is posted on the day before Veteran's Day.
We all should salute our Veteran's, and I do, and always will.
But one can not fully do them the honor they deserve without facing truth.
The decision to invade Iraq was based on a lie. A blatant lie. A conscious, calculated, confabulation of reality, knowingly executed. It was wrong. Bush KNEW it was wrong and his own words ("He tried to kill my daddy!") prove unequivocally that he did it with "malice of forethought". This is the very definition of crime. War Crime. Bush is a war criminal. When he personally authorized the torture of Abu Zubbayah, he added a second count of war crimes to his tally.
At the end of World War Two, we punished and executed more than 900 Japanese operatives for the war crimes of "Waterboarding" American Prisoners and like offenses in the Pacific theater. Waterboarding is a war crime. History says so. Anyone who believes otherwise is totally without grounding in history, morality and accepted reality.
To do so casts dishonor on allied forces in Iraq and anywhere else.
George Bush commanded operatives of my nation to commit war crimes. In so doing, he committed crimes in the name of my nation and its allies.
This is not my opinion. It was a crime when the Axis did it, and it was a crime when we did it. Period. Until we imprison this war criminal and others of his ilk, we remain a coalition of complicit war criminals.
For myself, I shall not, by my silence, stand in their number. I call for the arrest, indictment, and trial of George W. Bush for crimes against humanity.
For those who will call me "Liberal" I proudly accept that brand, and the Geneva Convention that goes with it. You, in turn, must bear the darkest elements of the Axis, and other monsters throughout history. If you can bear your brand, I certainly can bear mine. I stand for civilization: What do YOU stand for?
Such is my salute to those veterans who served their respective nations with honor, loyalty and bravery.
In the name of the thousands fallen, such is my indictment of George W.Bush.
Comments (10)
Iceshark39
A pointed tribute to those lives lost...and what it was all for.
thekingtut
And once again you just throw these things out with no proof to back up anything you claim. Oh, that's right. You don't need proof for your claims, and refuse to accept any that contradicts you, no matter how compelling.
PSDuck
I second Tut! The real traitor in this scenerio is Joe Wilson (I think, he's Valery Plame's hubby). He knowingly submitted a completely false report about Iraq and yellowcake (a compound used in nuclear arms development). This report solidified the Bush Admin's decision that Saddam had to go. The two of them (Wikson & Plame)should have been tried as traitors! Dig deep, intro, and quit vomiting the Left's mind-wash. As for me: I have studied revolutions, the "Little Red Book", communist (and fascist and other thought, methods and propaganda. I have also studied counter-revolutionary doctrine. I have little time for the Left or the Right. I know that in the case of a communist/far left takeover of this country, I'll be listed as a dangerous intellectual. That's because I think.
intro
@thekingtut Compelling??? Show me. I guess history books aren't compelling enough for you. Prove to me that Saddam had something to do with 9-11. Prove to me that KSM was not waterboarded at Bushes approval. C'MON! Better read Bush's book (where he admits he authorized it) first. Or are you gonna call him a liar too? Hey...if you wanna be a poster boy for War Crimes Weekly...knock yourself out.
intro
@PS Duck Where did you get such a ridiculously FALSE account of history?!? Joe Wilson's report DEBUNKED the whole "yellowcake" fallacy. That's why Scooter Libbey outed his wife. Wilson's report shot a hole in their WMD scenario. You guys would be hilarious...if you weren't so dangerous. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries
T.Rex
Saddam Hussein confessed after his capture that he had - 1 - exaggerated his claims to weapons of mass destruction as a deterent to potential aggression from Iran against a weak Iraq after the Gulf War. 2 - revealed he had sent a large truck convoy to Syria with purported missiles and other weapons prior to the second war with Iraq. These have since "disappeared". Syria claims "no knowledge" aboy the convoy. 3 - French intelligence passed on false information about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to English intelligence, which passed it on to the US intelligence services. 4 - "yellow cake" in Irak's posession was sent via a circuitous route to "launder" it. It finally wound up in Canada. Whether the war was right or wrong, I salute the poor soldiers who wound up fighting in it, and all other wars, as well. It's lies, deception, aggression, selfishness, prejudice that starts wars, and soldiers and civilians who wind up suffering.
kawecki
The problem is not the lie by itself, the problem is the people that believe the lies.
intro
Many interesting theories here. Many levels of credibility also. Still I maintain these: (1) Bush knowingly fabricated a connection between 9-11 and Iraq: A deception causing over 100,000 deaths and counting. (2) Bush knowingly approved the "waterboarding" of detainees. No one is ever going to disprove those things with any believable finding. Right and wrong, good and evil, each fill their sails with the winds of popularity. Some choose to fly against that wind, and hopefully rise through it, and above it. I often disagree with kawecki; But he was never more right: "The problem is not the lie by itself, the problem is the people that believe the lies."
turner
I find the terms "English intelligence, and the US intelligence services" rather amusing.
intro
@thekingtut: So if you're going to accuse me of ignoring "compelling" evidence, you should know I'm still waiting ....and waiting...and waiting. Anybody else?