C. GATSBY'S Weblog: "you will learn the truth and the truth will make you free. John 8:32

Bush, growing weary of war critics such as Cindy Sheehan's, who lost her son in Iraq and now is an outspoken critic of the Iraqi war, stated, "She doesn't represent the view of a lot of military families."

Using Bush's logic, one should support the Iraqi war because most military families support the war. For your informantion Mr. Bush, military families make up only a very small percentage of the total United States' population. Let's look at recent polls that represent all of America and see what we learn. Nearly 60 per cent of the population is against the war. Using Bush's logic then, since most Americans are weary of the war in Iraq, we should not support it and pull out.

Well, now Mr. Bush, what is the exit strategy in Iraq?

One must remember that exhaustive studies by the CIA, Congress, and the UN found no links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida prior to the Iraq war. Prior to the war, Iraq wasn't even on the list that the Bush and his State Department put out of 45 countries where al-Qaeda was operating. Now,after America's invasion, Iraq's there. Al Qaida only entered Iraq after the Americans attacked her illegally on false assumptions (i.e. weapons of mass destruction). Also, since the war began in Iraq, nearly 20,000 innocent Iraqi women and children and close to 2,000 Americans have been killed.

Bush claims you are only an American if you support the war. He confuses patriotism with suppport for his agenda. Our Founding Fathers would vehemently object to this. As Thomas Jefferson stated, "Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism." Kudos to Cindy Sheehan and other dissenters!

by Christian Gatsby

Anyone who supports the 700 club or Pat Robertson is no Christian. Pat Robertson is not a Christian.

Lately, more and more Americans are against the war in Iraq.  Sen Chuck Hagel (R--Nebraska), a decorated Vietnam Veteran and  a critic of Bush's handling of the Iraq war,  compared Iraq to Vietnam.  He said, "... (Bush's) stay the course is not a policy."  He added that some of the problem "...is we have no measurement for progress."

As this writer predicted before G. W. Bush’s immoral war in Iraq, that no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq nor were there any ties to al Qaeda--prior to the war, Iraq wasn't even on the list that the Bush and his State Department put out of 45 countries where al-Qaeda was operating. Now,after America's invasion, Iraq's there. Once again, I was proven correct by the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission report on prewar intelligence. It called prewar intelligence "dead wrong."

The report proclaimed, "We conclude that the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This was a major intelligence failure. Its principal causes were the Intelligence Community's inability to collect good information about Iraq's WMD programs, serious errors in analyzing what information it could gather, and a failure to make clear just how much of its analysis was based on assumptions, rather than good evidence."

George W. Bush and his administration asserted the following false claims: secret purchases of uranium from Africa, biological weapons being made in mobile laboratories, and pilotless drones that could disperse biological gas into the air above U.S. cities. All Bush’s allegations had been disproved by U.N. inspectors and CIA analysts. The work of the inspectors--who had extraordinary access during their three months in Iraq between November 2002 and March 2003--was discounted by the Bush administration before the start of the war, according to the commission.

Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency, "After three months of intrusive inspections, we have to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq." Again this was discounted by the Bush administration.

Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector, stated that he was disgusted of the "spin and hype behind U.S. and British allegations of banned Iraqi weapons used to justify war against Saddam Hussein. Blix, was convinced that Iraq had destroyed its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago.

Even as late as June 6th, 2003, G. W. Bush was still saying, "We're going to find the weapons of mass destruction."

The facts are firm and solid. G. W. Bush attacked Iraq on false pretentions. G. W. Bush is reponsible for the deaths of nearly 20,000 innocent women and children. G. W. Bush and his administration are reponsible for starting an illegal war.

I am reminded of a great Republican, Lincoln, a one-time congressman before becoming president, who became famous (or rather hated) for introducing the SPOT REOLUTION.

James Polk, a Democrat, was president while Lincoln was in Congress. Lincoln condemned Polk for starting the Mexican War. Congress had declared war against Mexico in 1846 upon Polk’s claim that Mexicans had fired on American soldiers in U.S. Territory.

In December 1847, Lincoln challenged the reality of this assertion. He introduced a resolution (SPOT) inquiring whether the spot on which the firing took place was actually in U.S. territory. In another resolution, he stated that the American troops were on that spot in breach of the orders of their commanding officer, General Zachary Taylor. The next month, Lincoln supported a resolution declaring that the Mexican War had been “unnecessarily and unconstitutionally…begun by the President.”

Sound familiar? Lincoln, if alive today, would likewise condemn Bush’s Iraq invasion. Like Polk, Bush, Jr. falsified the facts for war—weapons of mass destruction and Iraq was an al Qadea base. Both proved false by intensive Congressional reviews. LET’S IMPEACH G. W. BUSH!!!!!!!!!!

By Christian Gatsby

(VERSION ORGINALLY PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS ON 4/11/05)