If Bush Jr. was CEO of a mining company, let's say, shareholders would have given him the boot a long time ago. First off, he made the claim there were WMDs, but after great expense and a massive loss of life, none were found.
He lied. He made the claim the war in Iraq was connected to the war on terror. Not so, Al Qaeda had zippo to do with Iraq. Not now, of course.
Then there is the whole unseemliness of how the White House has conducted its business of war. Of course it makes sense for Cheney to see the sense in a protracted military venture. The privatization of the military has benefited Haliburton and KBR immensely. Oh my, Cheney is an old Haliburton exec... Of course, war makes sense to Cheney. I don't expect you'd recall Eisenhower's farewell speech. "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
Liberty is certainly not prospering in America today. Thank you George W. Bush. |
