- by Alan Adaschik

It is difficult to remember important things these days because the media outlets of this nation, similar to those within the Soviet Union under Communism, bend so far over to be politically correct that they actually distort the news and create erroneous impressions in the minds of Americans. Nowhere is this truer than when discussing the seeds of our invasion of Iraq. This adherence to political correctness has progressed to such a degree that one is justified in wondering if the government and the media has entered into an unholy alliance to deceive the American people and keep them as ignorant as possible about important governmental issues.

Of late, it has become common knowledge that we are not winning the war in Iraq. Therefore, starting this war was a grave mistake and someone or something is responsible for this mistake. If someone is responsible, then justice demands that we should hold that person accountable. If something is responsible, then steps should be taken to ensure that whatever happened never happens again. According to our government and everything we hear from the mainstream media today, “someone” is not responsible, but instead, “something” is and that something is euphemistically called “faulty intelligence”.

The label “faulty intelligence” is misleading and deceptive because the information available about Iraq prior to our invasion of Iraq was not faulty. Any reasonably intelligent and unbiased individual surveying this information would conclude that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and had no capability of developing any in the foreseeable future. Furthermore, it was also known throughout the intelligence community that Saddam Hussein was not supporting terrorists or supplying them with military equipment. In other words, the intelligence we possessed about Iraq prior to our invasion was sufficient to conclude that an invasion was unwarranted and ill-advised.

Why did we invade? We invaded Iraq because George Bush wrongfully thought that by doing so he was defending this Nation and its people. While these intentions are honorable, the truth of the matter is that the only thing faulty about the intelligence George Bush used to justify his invasion was the way he used and presented it to Congress to get their approval for an invasion. In other words, George Bush and his cronies “cooked the books” on intelligence and as a result, deliberately lied to Congress, deliberately lied to the American people, and deliberately lied to the rest of the world. It was these lies that brought this Nation to war and the reason George Bush lied was because he thought lying for a good cause was the right thing to do.

Therein is the tragedy of George W. Bush. He was wrong because he lied about such an important issue and he was wrong because he thought that a President should defend this Nation and its people through lies. From this, it should be clear that President George Bush is an amoral and grievously flawed human being who thinks one can accomplish good by doing evil. Like a communist, he subscribes to the notion that the ends justify the means. He wants to save and protect America and he thinks his honorable intentions give him license and moral authority to condone or commit any action, no matter how despicable or immoral.

We see validation of the above in George Bush’s nefarious invasion of Iraq, his despicable condoning of torturing prisoners of war, and in his unconscionable destruction of the human rights granted to us by God and protected by our Constitution. The tragedy of George W. Bush, which is now our tragedy, is his inability to realize that his beliefs and actions are destroying America. And because George Bush is destroying the values and mores of this nation, he is our worst enemy; an enemy far more sinister and despicable than Osama Ben Laden.

Our wrongful invasion of Iraq for contrived and surreptitious reasons was a criminal act that will not be absolved by simply withdrawing our troops from that nation. Far too many innocent people, on both sides of the conflict, have died because of the misdeeds of our President and his cronies. Upon withdrawing from Iraq, a thorough and complete investigation of this entire affair followed by appropriate constitutional and criminal proceedings is warranted. Anything less will not restore the honor we have lost nor cleanse the blood that now stains the hands of all of us.

To those of you who say such action is absurd and unwarranted, I ask you if bringing the Nation to war on lie and thereby causing the unnecessary, unjustifiable, and wrongful death of thousands upon thousands of innocent people, including those of our finest young men and women in the military, is not an impeachable offense and a prosecutable criminal act, what acts committed by a sitting President are impeachable and prosecutable? I sincerely hope you respond to this question, because I am at a loss to think of any.

And while you are thinking about an answer to the above question, also consider telling us, if we do not impeach and hold George Bush accountable under our criminal justice system, what deterrence is in place to dissuade some other mentally deficient individual provided to us as presidential fodder by global financial interests from doing the same or similar things? Isn’t a government with checks and balances supposed to cleanse itself of bad apples or at least set the precedent that such behavior from a sitting President is unacceptable and will not escape legal censure and condemnation?