This is a repost of the initial entry in a thread I began on The Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle bulletin board titled Bush lies on Memorial Day. Come help me fight the wingnuts!
Wartime President and Commander-in-Chief George Walker Bush lied again to the American people. In a Memorial Day speech honoring fallen veterans Mr. Bush said that the U.S. has always gone to war reluctantly. This is a lie. This is a damn lie!
There is an offical policy now in effect called The Bush Doctrine. The Bush Doctrine is a policy of pre-emptive warfare. It states that United States will not wait to be attacked or even until a threat is fully materialized but reserves the right to attack any nation or group that the President and Commander-in-Chief deems to be a potential threat to United States security.
There was a rush to war in Iraq. The war in Iraq was not a last resort. Iraq did not threaten or attack United States. Commander-in-Chief Bush’s order to invade and occupy Iraq was a choice. It was not done reluctantly or as a last resort.
We have eye witnesses inside the Bush-Cheney administration in the persons of Paul O’Neil who was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Richard Clarke who was the White House anti-terror advisor. Messers O’Neil and Clarke say that President George W. Bush wanted to go to war in Iraq from the earliest days of his administration and certainly from almost immediately after the attacks of 9/11 although the President knew that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the attacks on United States.
President Bush lied to the American people today on Memorial Day when he said that United States always goes to war reluctantly. Commander-in-Chief ordered the military to launch a war of choice on Iraq. The American people are now suffering the consequences of that rash decision.