Bush's world view has only created new enemies for his people

[spindrifter]

Daily Star Lebanon
Thursday, September 07, 2006

George W. Bush would like Americans to believe that he is a heroic president boldly taking on the challenge of what he calls "the great ideological struggle of the 21st century." In a series of speeches on the "war on terror," Bush has likened this struggle to the battles that were waged against Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. But because the world lacks any serious threats of the sort of Hitler or Stalin, Bush has resorted to inventing enemies.

According to Bush, a wide range of ideologically opposed groups - everyone from Al-Qaeda to Sunni insurgents in Iraq, the Hizbullah resistance movement in Lebanon, Shiite hard-liners in Iraq and the elected leaders of Iran - constitute a unified threat to the American way of life. In Bush's distorted world view, these diverse groups, some of whom have even engaged in bloody battles against each other, "represent different faces of the same threat."

It is not the first time that Bush has fabricated links between groups that have little or nothing to do with one another. During the lead-up to the US invasion of Iraq, and for months afterward, Bush and his administration told the American people that there was a link between the Islamic fundamentalists of Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's secular regime - a blatantly obvious lie. Only in August of this year did Bush finally acknowledge that Saddam had "nothing" to do with the September11, 2001, attacks on the United States

But Bush's admission of the truth has come far too late. His administration's irresponsible lies led America into a war that has cost hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, as well as thousands of US troops and billions of US tax dollars. The hasty invasion of Iraq - a war that was launched without a plan to restore stability - and the ensuing occupation policies have now pushed the country to the brink of all-out civil war. Once his term in office is over, Bush will likely retire to his ranch in Texas with ease, chalking up his string of failures to simple "mistakes." But Iraqis will likely still be living the tragedy of burying and mourning their dead for many years to come.

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[aquart]

1. WE are not Bush's people. Americans are not his people.

His people are the "haves and have-mores" who live anywhere they please.

[Monkeyman]

2. Yep while under his watch 1/3 of the homeless are veterans

Way to care about the troops and veterans

[aquart]

4. Building veterans housing would be a job-producing program.

God forbid George ever authorized one of those.

[SeaBob]

3. Inventing enemies--a mockumess.