What’s wrong with the Republican Party?
In the wake of the aftermath of the Iraq War the U.S and her allies are feeling the somber mood of being deceived and outright lied to. Bush acted on false intelligence, Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, Saddam hated Osama Bin Laden to begin with and the people are realising the naivety behind the childish concept of “they hate us because of our freedoms”. A we’re good they’re evil situation. When will Bush realise that the world doesn’t work that way? he isn’t a messiah set out to save his people and shouldn’t look for dragons to slay. Its funny, a Government that claims it can’t afford to improve its healthcare system or even introduce its people to the world standard metric system can afford a trillion dollar war on a nation that was never an imminent threat.
Even the corporate media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his band of pundits such as Bill O’Reilly are struggling to conjure rationale explanations simply resorting to “if you vote in a democrat they’ll come over here” or “questioning the presidency is unpatriotic”. Does he even understand the concept of democracy? Liberty and freedom of speech? if it is unpatriotic to question your president even after he abused the constitutional law of habeaus corpes and declared a false war. If it is unpatriotic and wrong to question a presidency that’s been called time and time again as the worst in history; if they threaten us that we are doomed without their guidance then we truly have become an imperialist state, a wolf in the guise of a democracy.
So why is it that the Republican Party insist this war is necessary? The CIA intelligence they rely so heavily on discusses a concept called Blowback, its common sense to know that your actions can affect you in future. The Intelligence they received said Iraq wasn’t an imminent threat. And worst off, for a war based on false intelligence its interesting to note that one verifiable source claimed before we went into Iraq that it would cause further turmoil. I never realised a President could pick and choose what he read.
Worst of all, despite Bush’s failures it appears his predecessors haven’t learned anything. Here’s a rundown of the critical talking points at the Republican Candidate debate:
- Why did they attack us?
- Is torture justified?
- Do we have the right to imprison terrorist suspects without trial?
Despite having commissioned The 9/11 report that pointed to foreign policy as a motivating factor behind the attacks, their general understanding was that the reason Islamic extremists attacked us was simply because they were evil and we were good. Remind you of any fairy tale stories?
As for torture and imprisonment without trial. Are we even a democracy anymore? If the government has the right to tap our telephone lines, internet and imprison us without explanation then do you know what we’ve become? A Nazi Regime. We’re now just as bad as those communists we claim to have mortally despised.
“The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison
without formulating any charge known to the law, and
particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers,
is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation
of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”
- Sir Winston Churchhill
