Iraq, Politics, Worst President Ever
Be honest (for once): Bob Geiger at the Yellow Dog Blog posted 15 questions for Bush supporters last week that were quite thought provoking – I’ve found myself mulling them over ever since. (Not the least wondering if I should suggest to Bob that 15 questions might be too tasking for the average Bush voter, but that’s another issue.)
Happily, I live safely behind the walls of the West Coast liberal bastion and do not count among my friends, family or work associates a single Bush supporter. However, I’ve come up with three questions on Iraq that I would pose to a Bush voter, if I knew one:
1. Yes or No: If the number one export of Iraq were olive oil, instead of petroleum oil, would we be there today?
2. One of the reasons Bush has given us for the occupation of Iraq is that we will create a foothold for democracy among the Arabs. Wouldn’t it have been less costly in blood and treasure simply to convince the Kuwaitis to hold elections? After all, we literally saved their asses from Saddam in 1992. Becoming a beacon for democracy in the Middle East would seem to be the very least they could do in return.
3. In the run-up to the war, did Bush and his team lie when they said Saddam had weapons of mass destruction?
No? Well, then the only other option is that they screwed up – and did so, as the vice president might say, big time.
In fact, this wildly inept miscalculation has led to over 100,000 casualities, including at least 2,200 dead U.S. service members and the fatalities of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis. It has cost us upwards of $300 billion – and we’re not even halfway done yet. The Bush misadventure in Iraq will undoubtedly go down as the most monumentally inept war effort ever undertaken. (If they were Democrats the Bush team would be pursued by the media and the GOP for gross and homicidal official negligence.)
So, which is it, did they lie or were they merely criminally negligent?
Okay, Bushists, we await your answers.
Topics: Iraq, Politics, Worst President Ever
Those three questions are taken out of historic context.
On this historic day of historic democracy in historic Iraq, all Iraqis historically rejoice in their historic participation of another historic round of U.S. Republican sponsored |X| FIXED ELECTIONS.
We’re historically turning the historic corner in historic Iraq, historically again!
Hey! Around the corner, this historic street looks historically familiar!
The Cost Of War: Half A Trillion Dollars!!!
And thats how much PER vote we Americans paid for EACH Iraqi to vote??? Yeh, screw the USA kids freezing and going to bed hungry night after night…we got dem Iraqi’s to vote…big freaking deal!
We’ve destroyed their infrastructure, made beggars out of the population, killed so many civilians that just about every family in the country has lost at least one loved one, called their resistance an insurgency, to try to give ourselves legitimacy, turned Iraqi collaborators into targets for the resistance, and provided fuel for continued resistance by keeping our troops in Iraq. My question to Bush supporters is why aren’t you over there trying to overcome the Iraqi resistance? I hear that the Marines need a few good men…..Oh, nevermind.
At X-mas parties this would be a good ice-breaker. If they get two out of three right, they win a prize!
The case for OIL as a primary motive has been about as well documented as the fact the intel was rigged not faulty.
Background on Peak Oil and Iraq
http://www.mymethow.com/%7Ejoereid/oil_coup.html
Timeline of Bush admin planning to steal Iraq’s oil, backed with government documents, and interviews with the oil company, occupation, and lobbyist players.
http://www.gregpalast.com/iraqmeetingstimeline.html
Final shape of oil companies scam to screw them out of their oil income
http://www.gregpalast.com/iraqmeetingstimeline.html
Restructuring Iraq’s oil during a military occupation to favor our oil companies is probably a war crime, as Naomi Klein pointed out in her article “Baghdad Year Zero.”
http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html
Judge for yourself skimming the relevant parts of the Hague and Geneva Conventions.
The Hague Convention of 1907 (IV) see articles 47, 53, 55
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/195?OpenDocument
The Geneva Convention of 1949 (IV) we’ve broken almost every section of article 147, and Bush has personally broken article 148.
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/380?OpenDocument
All we need do, is simply ask….why did we go
into Iraq? Where are the Weapons…and Why
hasn’t Saddam used them against us?
But we’re doing so much GOOD over there!