"Why is it so hard for us to admit?"

"Why is it so hard for us to admit?"

Why is it so hard for us to admit?

Why is it so hard for Americans to connect the dots, when it comes
to the completely false foundation for the Bush Doctrine of Pre-emptive
Aggression against Iraq?

It is one thing to go to war, after this nation is physically
attacked. It is something entirely other for the United States to attack another
country based solely on what we’ think’ that country might someday want to do to
us. If anything the evidence for the latter argument must be far stronger, than
any mere presumptions, especially when the nation in question, has been under
constant bombardment for twelve years prior to the start of our official and
overt invasion.

Why have we not understood that in the twelve years of bombing and
covert operations against Iraq, immediately preceding our attack – probably
most, if not all, of Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction had been destroyed or
at least severely compromised. However, instead of considering this point the
administration chose to base their fears for our safety on ‘intelligence’ that
was generated in 1991.

Then citing “imminent and immediate danger to both Iraq’s neighbors,
and the world, as well as to the United States – Bush chose to attack without
waiting for proof of his allegations, or for the support of the members of the
United Nations. Having blown this phase of the process, and isolated our
position from world opinion, we then viciously prosecuted a war with no thought
given to how that country would be governed after we finished breaking what
remained of this impoverished nation. There was no preparation or planning for
how to rebuild a civil infrastructure, how to reconstitute what had been a
dictatorship, whose people were struggling even before we arrived. During the
war many hours of television footage were devoted to all the rooms filled with
documents that were left to the elements to be destroyed.

Now we are being told that we have nowhere to begin, because we have no records.
We seem to have forgotten that the only part of the government we seized and
protected, during the invasion, were the records of the Ministry of Oil.
Basically we obviously didn’t give damn about anything else. American troops
stood by, or turned a blind eye to the looting, of all the various ministries,
the hospitals, the universities, and all the functional arms of any governmental
nature, including the disbanding of the military. So of course we have no way
to know the good from the contaminated, the real from the false. This only
happened because we did not plan for an Iraqi future. We did however let no-bid
contracts well in advance of the war for the protection and development of the
oil fields, the pipelines and everything associated with those resources.

Why is it so hard for us to fathom that what we destroyed for war purposes must
now be replaced at tremendous cost to the U.S. taxpayers? Why can we not grasp
that this ancient and proud people were not waiting-with-baited-breath, for the
US to grant them freedom or democracy. True they desperately yearned to be rid
of Saddam, but not at the expense of their own nationhood, or their lives or the
lives of loved ones. They have told us repeatedly to leave – and of course we
refuse, because then all the questions would have to answered. As it is now, the
president’s press secretary, can simply ignore the questions – but if we leave –
then the administration would have to answer for all the dead and all the
wounded, all the destruction and most of all for the sheer arrogance of our
attack in the first place. Only the rest of the civilized world wants that: so
naturally Bush will NOT be moved by their wishes, as that would conflict with
his role as Dictator-in-Waiting for the planet.

Speaking of costs, why can we not connect the dots on that ledger sheet? The
Iraqi’ children went back to school yesterday with sanitized new schoolbooks,
furnished by us. How many children in the United States are not given even old
school books, never mind freshly printed ones? The Fire stations in Baghdad are
getting new trucks, while in the US we’re laying off firemen and police to pay
for the creation of our new police state.

The Iraqi’s are getting a huge new police force, while our police are being
stripped down to the bare minimum - just barely able to respond to 911 calls
because of the high priority of the phantom needs of John Ashcroft’s secret
police state. Many states here are flirting with bankruptcy, while congress
decides to fund computerized post offices as well as modern new prisons (at
$50,000 per inmate) for Iraq.

This is an upside down world, this Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive aggression. Our
jobs are being sent offshore, and our corporations are allowed to downsize at
phenomenal rates, while Bush is giving away the treasury to the rich. We have no
viable jobs available for working Americans, and even the governments own
programs for the disabled and the unemployed are being answered by people
overseas, subcontracted for by the very government that has caused the
unemployment and the hardships here - in the first place.

Why will we not impeach this entire administration for the very real crimes they
have committed against America and the world? Tens of thousands of people have
died. It’s one thing to send troops into battle, with a clear war to fight, but
when the war is not over and they are left to die one-by-one-by-one: targets
all - both military and civilian – then that should qualify as a criminal act.
Yet this goes on and on and on – and there are apparently no consequences. Where
are the calls for Impeachment? The families of the fallen hate what has
happened. The wounded are not visited by the AWOL resident in the White House,
because they scorn him, while the authorities can only wring their bloodstained
hands and whisper that ‘things are not as they should be.’ Is this some modern
twisted form of Shakespeare? Is there no reason in this place?

These are indeed strange times: Times in which we have given the control of this
nation over to fools, to privateers, and to an assortment of criminals – aided
and abetted by a deaf, dumb, and pliantly complicit media. No nation so beset,
can survive this way for very long. And the United States will not prove to be
an exception to this cardinal rule for all who would seek to become part of our
perverted dreams of Global Empire.

kirwan