Walter C Uhler » Entries tagged with "WMD"
Republicans and the Iraq War: Ten Years Later
Last October three scholars issued a report, which found that 79% of Republicans were explicit racists (see: http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=666 ). This past January a university poll found that as many as 64% of Republicans could be considered “birthers.” (Most birthers are pathetic racist morons who, obsessed by their need to delegitimize America’s first black president, refuse to accept any evidence which proves that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.) However, both of these morally bankrupt values pale in significance, when compared with the overwhelming support that Republicans continue to give to President Bush’s illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Ten years ago this week, President George W. Bush gave the order for American troops to bomb and invade Iraq. From August 2002 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Media
Does the Bush Administration Support the Troops? Yes, Like a Noose Supports a Hanging Man!
On August 2, 2000, while accepting the Republican Party’s nomination as Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney told the U.S. military, “help is on the way.” Cheney used the occasion to savage the Clinton administration: “Rarely has so much been demanded of our armed forces and so little given them in return.” Yet, Cheney’s rebuke has proven to be vastly more applicable today than it has been for the past thirty years. When it comes to abuse and neglect of our military, President Clinton emerges as a rank amateur when compared with President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney. It was the Bush administration that sent American soldiers to war in Iraq without adequate supplies of body armor, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Iraq War
The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq, Part One: Criminality and Immorality
Part One: Criminality and Immorality I. Criminality According to Article VI of our U.S. Constitution, treaties entered into by the United States become the “Supreme Law of the Land.” At the urging of President Harry Truman, on July 28, 1945, the U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89 to 2, with 5 abstentions. Thus the UN Charter became the supreme law of the land. And, thus, the United States was legally prohibited from waging war unless attacked, unless an attack was imminent, or unless the United Nations approved such a war. Not for the first time, but most egregiously, did a President of the United States violate both his oath to uphold the Constitution and international law when … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Iraq War
Put on the Spot, Our Punk President Lies Yet Again
Whenever I hear President Bush tell another lie (or read that he has told another lie) I’m reminded of the Liar-in-Chief’s former professor at the Harvard Business School, Yoshi Tsurumi, and his spot-on recollection of this president’s punk past. According to Professor Tsurumi, Bush “showed pathological lying habits and was in denial when challenged on his prejudices and biases. He would even deny saying something he just said 30 seconds ago. He was famous for that. Students jumped on him; I challenged him.” [Mary Jacoby, "The Dunce," Salon.com, 16 September 2004] Tsurumi concluded: “Behind his smile and his smirk…he was a very insecure, cunning and vengeful guy.” “He was just badly brought up, with no discipline, and no … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bush Administration, Iraq War
Confronting the “Cut and Run” Slander of Bush’s Praetorian Guard
With elections but little more than a month away, President Bush’s do-nothing Republican majority in both houses of Congress is up for grabs. And, thus, so is a genuine investigation into the Bush administration’s lies, deceit and crimes concerning Iraq — especially its “Chicken Little” clamoring about weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Qaeda that, as we would learn later, didn’t actually exist. Also requiring investigation, however, is the extraordinary military incompetence at the strategic level – at the Rumsfeld level — that allowed an illusory “Mission Accomplished” to degenerate into: (1) widespread looting and infrastructure destruction, (2) an ever- flourishing and now unbeatable insurgency, (3) torture by American soldiers in violation of the Geneva Conventions, (4) tens … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bush Administration, Iraq War, Politics
Deceit About Iraq: “Things Related and Not”
Hitting First: Preventive Force in U.S. Security Policy Ed. by William W. Keller and Gordon R. Mitchell University of Pittsburg Press, September 2006, 368 pp., $27.95 As they did during the mid-term congressional election campaign of 2002 and the presidential election campaign of 2004, President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld are once again attempting to scare Americans into voting for Republicans in November. They certainly should, because their very political lives depend upon November’s outcome. But, what’s astounding — given their massive campaign of deceit about Iraq — is the thought that they still possess even an ounce of residual credibility with either the news media or the electorate. After all, Mr. Bush trumpeted false claims about Iraq’s possession of weapons … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Reviews, Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Iraq War
Bush’s Baghdad Stunt
While reading about the exploits of Emperor Bush, who bravely flew in to war-torn Baghdad, Iraq and spent a whole six hours there without even providing the usual notice to, let alone securing the necessary approvals from, its so-called “sovereign” government, I was reminded of the remarkable words spoken to author Ron Suskind by a senior Bush advisor in the summer of 2002. Denigrating Mr. Suskind (and those of us like him), for believing “that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality,” the advisor boasted: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bush Administration, Iraq War
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