This week, we started working towards our fourth year in Iraq. 2,314 U.S. military personnel are now dead and not a single weapon of mass destruction has been found (remember: The search for WMD was the whole reason we went to war with Iraq.*). The country is in civil war (“We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is,” said former Iraq Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.) and despite the fact that elections have been held, no real government is in place. It’s a complete mess.
This is your legacy, President Bush. This is how you’ll be remembered: The worst President in the history of the United States (including that jerk Nixon) who took America to war under false pretenses just so you could be the “big man” and get Saddam Hussein (and your VP was just in it for the cash grab). You said that our Marines would be greeted with “flowers and sweets” by jubilant Iraqis. You were wrong about that, too. Thanks for creating the worst mess since Vietnam.
Here’s the worst part of all: The fact that I would even write this about a US President. I was brought up believing that the President of the United States was the most revered US citizen, and that s/he should be treated accordingly. Like him or not, the President was the President and great respect was due.
However, Mr. Bush has so soiled the office and my opinion of him and all of his cronies is so low that I actually call him “the worst President in the history of the United States.” I honestly believe in my heart that he lied to Congress, the Joint Chiefs, the UN, you and me about the reason for this war, and that he continues to lie about it every day. I truly believe that we went to war in Iraq on Bush’s own private, hidden agenda.
That’s the worst part, the saddest part of the story. Not left vs. right, not Bush or Cheney or the war or Osama Bin Laden or any of it. The worst part of the story is that I have completely and totally lost faith in our government, that I believe in my heart that they’re a bunch of self-serving swindlers who put their own selfish needs before the benefit of the people, even at the cost of US marines. Isn’t it sad that I believe that?
This is your true legacy, Mr. Bush. How could I ever have faith in government again?
*Here are some pre-war quotes from our President, in case you’ve forgotten:
- “Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.” — United Nations Address September 12, 2002
- “Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.” — Radio Address October 5, 2002
- “We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons — the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.” — Radio Address October 5, 2002
- “The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons.” — Cincinnati, Ohio Speech October 7, 2002
- “We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.” — Cincinnati, Ohio Speech October 7, 2002
- “We’ve also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We’re concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVS for missions targeting the United States.” — Cincinnati, Ohio Speech October 7, 2002
- “The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his “nuclear mujahideen” – his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.” — Cincinnati, Ohio Speech October 7, 2002
- “Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.” — State of the Union Address January 28, 2003
“Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.” — Address to the Nation March 17, 2003
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