Bush Continues to Blare

Published on 28th March 2006

President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, have both been trying to put a spin on their continuing destruction of Iraq in different speeches to their very skeptical compatriots and a world that has stopped believing anything they say for they cannot be relied on to even declare their names without inviting suspicion. The war was never sanctioned by the rest of the world and despite many diabolical attempts in the past three years to give it some moral and diplomatic seal of approval, the Washington and London brigands remain isolated.

 

Blair has never had a united country, party, parliament or government   behind his militarism. He has been crashing down the hill of public trust since then. Bush initially manufactured a national coalition behind him but knowing what they now know, millions of Americans have discovered that their President used 9/11 to falsely lure them into an endless unjust war. The easy victory he promised has become a nightmare, forcing parallels with Vietnam: a war of David and Goliath in which America was humiliated in the end. Worse for Bush, his loony right intellectual and political gurus who provided specious ideological justification to a manipulated country about the invasion are recanting in their droves. He has become a disciple whose prophet has been exposed as a phoney.

 

Listen to two of the most hawkish warmongers preparatory to and after the invasion. The first, Francis Fukuyama, the apostle of End of History and the ever-rising advance of Western liberalism recently said:

“By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling prophecy: Iraq has now replaced Afghanistan as a magnet, training ground and operational base for Jihadists, with plenty of American targets to shoot at”. 

 

The second, is fellow Republican hawk and a Senior Official until conflict of interest forced him out, Richard Perle:

 

“The military campaign and its political aftermath were both passionately debated within the Bush administration. It got the war right and the aftermath wrong. We should have understood that we needed Iraqi partners”.

 

Despite their confessions though, there is one thing common to all of them. They are recanting for American reasons without any concern for the Iraqis. When they talk of ‘Casualties in Iraq’ they do not mean the innocent Iraqi children, women and men murdered en masse at weddings, naming ceremonies, in their homes or those killed in detention centres, inhuman prisons, the so called ‘collateral damage’ of Bush’s adventurism. They are only concerned about the couple of thousands of Americans and their Western poodles (largely British) killed in the war. While they are still counting their casualties in the lower denomination of four digits the Iraqi casualties are in hundreds of thousands and when you add secondary casualties they will be in millions. In their minds it’s only American and British lives that matter. The rest are just statistics.  Even in death, a Westerner’s life is still more than that of other peoples of the world! That’s why Bush could falsely claim that 30, 000   Iraqis ‘more or less’ have been killed in this war. Could he have said of just one American life as ‘more or less’?

 

As the late Bob Marley said: “you can fool some people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” The Hausa also say: “Mara gaskiya ko cikin ruwa sai ya yi gumi” (a dishonest person will sweat even if he is in water!). If  the world was fairer, it should have hauled  Bush and Blair before the international criminal court as war criminals who have continued to kill innocent civilians in another country that posed no threat to their countries.

 

The only other alternative now is to wait for their exits from their exalted offices. In the case of Bush, there is a date which cannot come sooner. But Blair is the weaker of the two. The Labour party should do the world a big favour and begin a long process of atonement for the needless death of innocent Iraqis by changing the locks to NO 10 Downing Street, shut the door to Blair’s face and shoving him aside.

His latest exposure as offering peerages and other national honors for undeclared ‘donations’ or ‘loans’ to the Labour party (without even informing his own deputy let alone party officials) just shows how cynical and amoral a politician this man, (B-Liar) is. Had he been an African leader, the British government would have been one of the first  to condemn him for corruption and lack of transparency and threatening to reconsider their ‘Aid’. 

 

Blair helped Bush to undermine international law. He has now domesticated the same skills by finding loopholes in laws passed by his own government on party financing. If not for the sake of innocent Iraqis and the rest of the world, but for their own sake, the British people have enough British reasons to be rid of this ‘419’ Premier.

 


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