Reaction to the President's Speech!

Wow! Did you hear George W. Bush peddle his bundle of lies again the other night. And he did it with a straight face. However, these days fewer and fewer people in the United States believe him. Most of the rest of the world never did believe him.

It was only one day after Donald Rumsfield warned us that the U.S. troops should be prepared to confront the Iraqi insurgency for possibly the next 12 years, that our fearless President went on national television to try and convince us that we must support the continuation of his war policies. If the media had been up to standard, they would have ripped Bush’s speech to shreds. Not just once but five different times he invoked the September 11 attacks as the pretext for the war and occupation. Not once did he refer to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Prior to the illegal, pre-emptive war that was the very heart of the Bush/Cheney propaganda. Remember Vice President, Dick Cheney’s remarks to the VFW National Convention, August 26, 2002, “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”

Never has there been proved that Saddam had any connection to the 9/11 attacks. How could he expect us to believe his lies now?

Without a doubt the President’s motivation to justify his war policies on national television was just a desperate attempt to bolster his sagging public opinion. President Bush is actively trying to head off a growing movement for impeachment. His pre-war lies are being exposed by the Downing Street memos.

Lying to Congress and to the people of the United States is surely an impeachable offense. Because of his lies more than 100,000 Iraqis and over 1,700 U.S. soldiers have lost their lives, not even mentioning the 1,000’s of wounded and the billions of dollars we have gone in debt.

Then the President had the audacity to shamelessly appeal to our young people to sign up to become soldiers for his Iraq war. The man who used his wealth and power to avoid personal participation in the Vietnam conflict promised our youth that glory and honor would be their reward.