USA TODAY NEWSPAPER IS INCONSISTENT!
Nine Years ago this month, USA Today called for Clinton’s resignation because “…he has resolutely failed …the most fundamental test of any president: to put his nation's interests first." USA Today article focused on Clinton’s Lewinsky scandal and his lie about it.
Yes, Clinton did lie, but his lie cost no American casualties, no foreign deaths, no protracted war, and no outpouring of international protests. George Bush, on the other hand, lied and fabricated intelligence about Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (nuclear and biological weapons) and his ties to al Qaeda. Bush’s lies have resulted in the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and over 100,000 innocent Iraqis.
Prior to 2002, Bush and his staff proclaimed that sanctions against Hussein’s Iraq were effective and that no weapons of mass destruction existed. Former Secretary of State Powell exclaimed on February 24th, 2001, “The sanctions exist…they have worked. He (Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He (Hussein) is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.” In July, 2001, then National Security Director Condi Rice said on CNN, “We are able to keep arms from him (Hussein). His military forces have not been rebuilt.”
However, by the end of the year, a few months after Bush and his advisors assured all that Hussein was no threat, Hussein’s Iraq now was a major weapons manufacturer of biological and nuclear weapons. By January, 2002, Bush and company were stating publicly that Iraq was manufacturing a nuclear bomb. As numerous commissions pointed out, Bush exaggerated and misled the public.
Why doesn’t USA Today apply its same standards to Bush and call for his resignation? Bush has lied and misled the country far more than any president since Nixon. Bush needs to resign!
BY Christian Gatsby
