Turn the page on Mister Bush? Never --- by Meteor Blades

[kpete]

Turn the page on Mister Bush? Never
by Meteor Blades
Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 08:04:54 PM PDT

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I cannot and will not turn the page until George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the others in that cabal of scorpions are brought to justice and make amends for Iraq. Which means never. No apology, much less time in the slam. I'll go to my grave knowing Bush and the rest got away with it. In a couple of months, Bush hopes hundreds of thousands of Americans will be turning the pages of his memoir, a book certain to add to the plethora of lies and pathetic, murderous rationalizations with which we became so familiar during the last seven years of his presidency.

With a bayonet called 9/11, and a script of concoctions and fabrications, President Bush and his buddies prodded the nation into an illegal preventive war, a war of aggression, in utter violation of the U.N. Charter. First came the lies, so many it was impossible to keep up even for Congresspeople, whose job it supposedly is to keep up. Then came the shock and awe, the torture, the secret prisons, the no-bid contracts, the pitiful claims that there was no insurgency.

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Into battle, Bush sent men and women who were ill-equipped for their mission. How many died because their personal armor or the armor of the vehicles they traveled in failed? Did the Commander-in-Chief demand that this armor be upgraded with all due haste? No. He chose instead to believe his key advisers' claims that there were no insurgents, just the need for a little mopping up of minor resistance. It would all be over in a few months. No urgency for added armor. As for taking care of those whose failed armor allowed them to be wounded or permanently maimed? Bush proposed budget cuts for veterans health care.

He and his buddies betrayed us with their lies and placed us, as Americans, at greater risk throughout the world. They worked overtime to silence dissident voices. They deliberately took us into war under a cloak of deceit, poured billions of our dollars into holes we still don't know all the locations of, encouraged al Qaeda to spread its operations to Iraq and transformed a dictator's fiefdom into a hellhole of sectarian violence in which civilians died in the tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands.

Support for the troops? Love of the country? Commitment to security? Not hardly.


more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/8/31/897917/-Turn-the-page-on-Mister-Bush-Never

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Hawkowl]

2. How many years to get Pinochet?

It may take longer to get Bush, and Cheney will probably be dead in a few years. But they MUST be brought to justice. Patriots my bleeding arse!

[Taverner]

8. And we never really got Pinochet

Died in his home, surrounded by well wishers and family.

[Hawkowl]

9. True but,

At least at the end, nobody in power was calling him a patriot and he was a vilified man.

[Taverner]

11. Yes - but there are still many rich Chileans who worship him like a god

[Frustratedlady]

3. Isn't that how most of us feel?

How can we teach our children and grandchidren right from wrong when they see those people get by with murder? It sickens me.

[grasswire]

6. exactly

Actually, we should never have allowed the "selection" by the Supreme Court in 2000 to stand. If we had stopped them then, hundreds of thousands murdered by Bushco would still be alive, our treasury would be trillions of dollars fatter, the economy would be better than it is, our civil liberties might be intact.....

What a price we are paying for that coup.

[Frustratedlady]

14. You left out the fact that many of us wouldn't have had to go through

a long period of depression and frustration like we did because we KNEW their win was a lie.

I'll do most anything to avoid those feelings again. We can't let the RW win.

[chimpymustgo]

19. What will we tell the children. Seriously.

[Raster]

4. With other threads thanking the troops and gleefully proclaiming the end of Iraq (NOT!)..

...this post reclaims perspective:

<snip>

Into battle, Bush sent men and women who were ill-equipped for their mission. How many died because their personal armor or the armor of the vehicles they traveled in failed? Did the Commander-in-Chief demand that this armor be upgraded with all due haste? No. He chose instead to believe his key advisers' claims that there were no insurgents, just the need for a little mopping up of minor resistance. It would all be over in a few months. No urgency for added armor. As for taking care of those whose failed armor allowed them to be wounded or permanently maimed? Bush proposed budget cuts for veterans health care.

He and his buddies betrayed us with their lies and placed us, as Americans, at greater risk throughout the world. They worked overtime to silence dissident voices. They deliberately took us into war under a cloak of deceit, poured billions of our dollars into holes we still don't know all the locations of, encouraged al Qaeda to spread its operations to Iraq and transformed a dictator's fiefdom into a hellhole of sectarian violence in which civilians died in the tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands.

Support for the troops? Love of the country? Commitment to security? Not hardly.

So, no, I won't be turning the page on George W. Bush even though the war he and his cronies engineered is now officially ended. That would mean being merciful to someone who has had plenty of second chances all his life and botched each of them. Iraq put the icing on.

A MUST read! Fuck george bush*, dick cheney*, donald rumsfeld*, condolezza rice* and the rest of the cabal of criminals!

[Raster]

5. Thank you, kpete for posting this. This is one of the best posts currently on DU!

:kick:

[malaise]

7. +1,000

War criminals must pay

[bdamomma]

10. turn the page?????

what letting those criminals go scott free, sickens me, they need to be rounded up and put in prison, a woman can dream can't she????

[HarveyDarkey]

21. I have a dream

[Soylent Brice]

12. great piece.

K&R

[Raster]

13. Kick!

:kick:

[BlueMTexpat]

15. This is one page that

I personally will never turn. I don't care how discouraging it may seem.

But the US shamefully will likely not be the country/institution that leads the way. Just as with the Pinochet example cited above, those with standing may have to work through other fora in other lands since our own seem to be bought and paid for. That is the most shameful thing of all.

But no, I will not give up hope - no matter how disappointing the actions of my elected representatives may currently seem.

[avaistheone1]

16. Strongly recommended

[bobthedrummer]

17. Nope, never turning anything when it comes to BUSH/CHENEY et al; k&r n/t

[russspeakeasy]

18. Turn the Page ???

Kiss my ass....

[lunatica]

20. Facts are stubborn things. You can't turn the page on them

They keep coming back at the most uncomfortable times. Obama may be turning the page a few years after Pelosi turned it but there are lots of people, historians among them who are not and who never will. The Bush era will be in history books and it will be described as it was. It'll be the time people will point to when they live in a third world economy.

[bertman]

22. Let's throw the enablers and the "look forward, not backward" excusers in the

same cell block with them. They're all collaborators as far as I'm concerned.

This country will become a stinking cesspool of starving humans and ravaged cities before the Military-Industrial-Intelligence Corporate Complex ever releases its deathgrip on our throats.

Bush and Cheney, Feith, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz are all laughing at us from their verandas in the sunny south.

But, the fantasy is worth having.

Rec.

[russspeakeasy]

23. George W. Bush willing and enthusiastic baby killer.

I want this bastard in jail so bad, I will personally sew his
orange jumpsuit....sorry asshole, no room for a cup, but I
will include a drop seat at no additional charge...

[slipslidingaway]

24. knr nt

[olegramps]

25. Every word is the absolute truth.

What I find most disturbing is that the PNAC neo-cons plans were published by them in which they clearly laid out their intentions to invade Iraq. As they stated they only needed a "Pearl Harbor" event to put it into action. This was conveniently ignored by the all the major media outlets. The entirety of his administration was staffed by PNAC members who greeted 9/11 as an answer to their prayers. The Fourth Estate totally failed the citizens in their duty to provide them with the facts concerning the clear intent of the Bush-Cheney administration.