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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIdiot or Liar? Either way, Bush unfit for office
The 10 year anniversary reminded me of this commentary from August 2003 after Bush said we invaded Iraq because Saddam wouldn't let the inspectors in:
Idiot or Liar? Either way, Bush unfit for office
John V. Whitbeck
19 August 2003
On July 25, President George W. Bush made a truly staggering statement to the press after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow inspectors in, and he wouldnt let them in. And therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region.
This statement is worth reading carefully. The president of the United States has stated, in a public forum, that he invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein would not allow weapons inspectors back into his country.
So far as I am aware, this statement has not been the subject of any serious critical analysis in the mainstream American media.
I will therefore provide my own brief analysis.
Assuming, as seems reasonable, that the president of the United States was neither drunk nor on LSD, there can be only two possible explanations for this statement:
Explanation 1: The president of the United States believed what he said. In this case, he is so dim-witted and/or totally divorced from reality as to be mentally unfit to hold his current job or, indeed, any job and should be taken into medical care.
Explanation 2: The president did not believe what he said but, rather, believes (unfortunately not without compelling post-Sept.11 evidence) that the vast majority of the American people are so dim-witted and/or uninformed and the vast majority of the American media is so sycophantic and/or terrified of being branded unpatriotic (or simply losing White House access) that he can now tell any lie, no matter how obvious and outrageous, and get away with it. In this case, he is morally unfit to hold his current job and should, by constitutional means, be forced to relinquish it as soon as possible.
Either explanation should scare the wits out of anyone who is not comatose.
When a single individual combines ignorance, immorality, dry-drunk syndrome, a publicly proclaimed commitment to perpetual military domination of the entire world by his country, a publicly expressed belief that God personally instructs him to make war on specific countries and a wildly irrational born-again brand of Christianity that views the Battle of Armageddon and the consequent end of life on earth as desirable developments and, at the same time, has command authority over an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction more than sufficient to achieve the end of life on earth, it is difficult to argue that this individual is not the most dangerous person who has ever lived.
When (if ever) will the American people wake up to the real threat facing America and the world?
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Idiot or Liar? Either way, Bush unfit for office (Original Post)
Martin Eden
Mar 2013
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Deep13
(39,154 posts)1. Lidiot? Iar? nt
Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)2. If you keep rearranging the letters, they spell ...
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