WHO'S AFRAID OF THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS?
Thursday, 15 June 2006
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS?
The Republican Congress, fearful of the midterm elections, is grandstanding on Bush’s war in Iraq. The Republican Congress, like Bush, has no coherent plan for victory or exit strategy on Iraq. Bush’s War has cost nearly 0 billion of which billions have been wasted on fraudulent practices. Why doesn’t the Republican Congress use its oversight abilities and investigate/prosecute the GAO’s list of fraudulent practices of American companies in Iraq? To date, little has been done.
Naïve Republicans are still falsely equating Bush‘s attack on Iraq with 9/11. “When our freedom is challenged, Americans do not run,” House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said in remarks loaded with references to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. After numerous painstaking investigations by Congress, the CIA, and the FBI, NO connections were found between Hussein’s Iraq and 9/11 or for that matter, al Qaeda itself. Also, no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq. Hussein’s Iraq did not inhibit Americans’ freedom in any manner whatsoever!
However, to illustrate the insensitive Republicans, let‘s look at a statement made on behalf of G. W. Bush by his spokesman, Tony Snow, regarding the 2,500th American soldier fatality in Iraq: “It’s a number.” Well, Bush, it may be just a number to you, but to me and many others, it is another precious life lost by your phony war in Iraq.
Bush and his Republicans need to develop an effective exit strategy ASAP and stop their senseless grandstanding. People are dying in Iraq, and I hope someone cares enough to stop the nonsense.
BY CHRISTIAN GATSBY
The Republican Congress, fearful of the midterm elections, is grandstanding on Bush’s war in Iraq. The Republican Congress, like Bush, has no coherent plan for victory or exit strategy on Iraq. Bush’s War has cost nearly 0 billion of which billions have been wasted on fraudulent practices. Why doesn’t the Republican Congress use its oversight abilities and investigate/prosecute the GAO’s list of fraudulent practices of American companies in Iraq? To date, little has been done.
Naïve Republicans are still falsely equating Bush‘s attack on Iraq with 9/11. “When our freedom is challenged, Americans do not run,” House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said in remarks loaded with references to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. After numerous painstaking investigations by Congress, the CIA, and the FBI, NO connections were found between Hussein’s Iraq and 9/11 or for that matter, al Qaeda itself. Also, no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq. Hussein’s Iraq did not inhibit Americans’ freedom in any manner whatsoever!
However, to illustrate the insensitive Republicans, let‘s look at a statement made on behalf of G. W. Bush by his spokesman, Tony Snow, regarding the 2,500th American soldier fatality in Iraq: “It’s a number.” Well, Bush, it may be just a number to you, but to me and many others, it is another precious life lost by your phony war in Iraq.
Bush and his Republicans need to develop an effective exit strategy ASAP and stop their senseless grandstanding. People are dying in Iraq, and I hope someone cares enough to stop the nonsense.
BY CHRISTIAN GATSBY
