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Bush's Twisted Vision

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
by One Citizen

Last week President Bush announced that the "vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." [LINK]

Could this be a simple reoccurrence of Bush's "cowboy tourette's"? This White House news release could easily have been redacted or refined by the Administration if, in fact, it was a simple mistake attributable to Bush's colloquial way of phrasing things.

The phrase "...we will find these people and we will bring them to justice" rings with an ominous "Old West" quality. But what could Dubya have in store for freedom-loving Iraqis?

In an interview last week with the Washington-based newspaper "The Hill," Senator Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) said, "If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens".

The BushCo plan for democracy in the mideast never takes into consideration the sovereign nation's right for self-determination. So forcing his version of democracy on a freedom-loving people may well mean that he will, in fact, be hunting them down (as opposed to mowing them down).

Is BushCo's strategy really to "hunt them down and bring them to justice," as he proposed? Perhaps, because it may have finally occurred to the chickenhawks running this war that Americans aren't the only people willing to die for freedom. Because freedom in Iraq means that the Iraqi people will have the ability to determine their own form of government.

Are we so positive that Bush's vision for freedom is the same as theirs? Does his vision mean that we should just "mow the place down" if they protest his choice for their form of government?

On November 4, former Kissinger right-hand man L. Paul Bremer III announced that BushCo intends to create "an Iraqi-led paramilitary force composed of former employees of the country's security services and members of political party militias." [LINK]

Now that's one right out of the old Kissinger playbook, because on the very same day, Bush indirectly denounced Bremer's "former Iraqi security forces and political militias" as "Saddam loyalists ....the torturers and murders (sic) and thugs that used to benefit from Saddam Hussein's regime." [LINK]

Is this a sign that BushCo is actually substituting their own oppressive regime for Saddam Hussein's? Whether we Americans are liberators or an oppressive regime could be a merely matter of perception. Perhaps the Iraqis are protesting simply because they're not buying into American media's spin on democracy. Perhaps they simply believe that we'll be there for years, in an effort to gut their natural resources. And why shouldn't they? The major contractors rebuilding the infrastructure of their country are oil-related American firms.

Perhaps the incessant suicidal attacks on their American "liberators" is being driven by the Iraqi's desperate hopelessness, or their need for vengeance over the loss of their loved ones.

It is, after all, Iraqi kids who are sick and dying from our depleted uranium bullets [LINK] and it is Iraqi homes that are now getting bulldozed [LINK] along with Iraqi crops [LINK].

Our President would like us to believe that "they attack us because they hate our freedom." It may well be that they're simply attacking us because they love theirs.

One of the Administration's reasons for overthrowing Hussein was to establish a shining beacon of a democracy in the mideast. Considering that Bush's version of democracy apparently now means that torturers, murderers and thugs are hunting down freedom-loving Iraqis and bringing them to justice, who, in their right mind, would ever aspire to adopt THAT twisted vision? The hiring of Hussein's thugs to hunt down protestors can only result in even more violence against our troops stationed there.

It's time to seriously consider pulling out of Iraq and cutting our losses. We successfully ousted Hussein, so why not let the Iraqis now determine their own collective fate. On more than one occasion BushCo said that "it's not about the oil." So why are we still there?

Let your Congress know that we expect them to get our troops out of Iraq. Now.

One Citizen

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY