Journal: 100,000 Iraqi Civilian Casualties (and counting)

Re: 100,000 Civilians Dead in Iraq

I wanted to post this, but I'd already modded a couple of morons down and some other people up who obviously understand the difference between opinion/wishing and independently verifiable facts...

And what about when objectivity comes down on the side of "Bush is an evil fuck", hmm? Going by how the Republicans whine, objectivity is about making sure the GOP comes out smelling like roses, even when the facts are against them...

I am honestly amazed to see that there is somebody around here who can see through this "media objectivity" bullshit.

Facts are facts. Invading Iraq was an unbelievable display of utter incompetence on the part of the Bush Administration that will likely go down in history as one of the worst mistakes in the history of the United States.

While I do think that at some point the US would have needed to take a more aggressive stance toward Hussein (I refuse to call a head of state simply by his given name, unlike most of the ill-mannered politicians and media wonks, who can't even be bothered to consult an Arab on how to pronounce his given name, anyway)--pressuring Iraq in 2002 and invading Iraq in 2003 was certainly *not* the time to do it! Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Fucking Everything

Source after source after source has documented that the Bush Administration planned to invade Iraq from the day Our Inestimable Leader was sworn into office, if not well before that time. Hussein was a threat, yes--but a contained threat that posed no immediate, clear, or present danger to the security of the United States.

It was clear even to people like myself (with no access to classified materials) that the case the administration was trying to build was entirely groundless. I was highly embarrassed as a citizen of the US watching the broadcasts of Mr. Powell's presentation to the UN. There was simply no convincing evidence that Hussein was acting in the manner Powell was describing--in fact, there was significant evidence to the contrary.

Now, before you Bush apologists start trying to pass the buck around to the hard-working men and women in our intelligence services, you might want to take a second and think about the fact that the President of our country is personally responsible for the Executive branch of our government. It was Bush's job to verify that the information we had available was as accurate as possible.

What the Bush Administration did instead was to selectively ignore any evidence collected by our intelligence services that would in any way cast doubt on the administration's pre-conceived beliefs.

We should be demanding the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, as well as national and international criminal proceedings against both them and any in their administration who are found to have willingly misrepresented these facts.

There is no doubt in my mind the George W. Bush will go down in history as the absolute worst president in the history of our great nation--and I certainly hope that he loses next week decisively so that he and his incompetent and malicious administration do not get the chance to spend another four years putting the freedom, peace, and security of not only the United States, but entire world at greater risk.

Do your part.