Bush's Evil Justification for War
Michael Abromowitz and Michael A. Fletecher report on President Bush’s September 11th Address to the Nation in the September 12 Washington Post.
I did not watch the speech last night, as I figured it would be more of the same. From the article, it appears I was right. The President continues to link the war in Iraq with the war on terror. It is this linkage that makes the war in Iraq not only ill advised, but immoral.
In essence, George W. Bush started a war in Iraq to attract the terrorists who would otherwise hit other American targets, both here and abroad. Essentially, he has continued a civil war that his Vice President started while he was his father’s Secretary of Defense and, by linking it to the war on terror, TURNED IRAQI CIVILIANS INTO CANNON FODDER in the name of liberation. That is not only cold, that is EVIL. Any Americans who share in that intention, or who vote for Republicans because of it, share in that evil. I am no fan of Saddam Hussein and am glad he is gone. The way that the Administration has turned a simple act of liberation into a continuing conflict for their international and domestic political aims is just plain wrong.
It would be like if aliens landed here and engaged us in a fight over morals, not for our own happiness, but to make a point between the two camps on the nature of good and evil. In the end, we would feel used, not saved. Of course, there are those conservatives who believe that is what morality is about, however they are misguided in both their morality and their support of this war.
I did not watch the speech last night, as I figured it would be more of the same. From the article, it appears I was right. The President continues to link the war in Iraq with the war on terror. It is this linkage that makes the war in Iraq not only ill advised, but immoral.
In essence, George W. Bush started a war in Iraq to attract the terrorists who would otherwise hit other American targets, both here and abroad. Essentially, he has continued a civil war that his Vice President started while he was his father’s Secretary of Defense and, by linking it to the war on terror, TURNED IRAQI CIVILIANS INTO CANNON FODDER in the name of liberation. That is not only cold, that is EVIL. Any Americans who share in that intention, or who vote for Republicans because of it, share in that evil. I am no fan of Saddam Hussein and am glad he is gone. The way that the Administration has turned a simple act of liberation into a continuing conflict for their international and domestic political aims is just plain wrong.
It would be like if aliens landed here and engaged us in a fight over morals, not for our own happiness, but to make a point between the two camps on the nature of good and evil. In the end, we would feel used, not saved. Of course, there are those conservatives who believe that is what morality is about, however they are misguided in both their morality and their support of this war.
posted by Michael Bindner at 2:40 PM
2 Comments:
This is an interesting take on the war - that it was started as a terrorist magnet. That still leaves the initial justification for the war as a lie, the war planning and post-war non-planning a scandal, and the occupation a sick, death-filled abyss from which, apparently, Bush refuses to extricate us. We are immersed and enmeshed in evil, as you say, and while politics is not our salvation, this November's elections can serve as a tool to extricate us from the worst of our current situation.
Amen, if we can only convince a dozen and a half GOPeons to go along with impeaching Cheney.
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