Scheer - In a Democracy, Liars Can Never Be Liberators

[realFedUp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer11nov11,1,6081358.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

In a Democracy, Liars Can Never Be Liberators
Robert Scheer

November 11, 2003

It takes stunning arrogance for a president to invade an oil-rich, politically strategic country on the basis of demonstrable lies, put his favorite companies in control of its economic future, create a puppet regime to do his bidding and then claim, as George Bush did last week in a speech, that this is all a bold exercise in spreading democracy. "Iraqi democracy will succeed, and that success will send forth the news from Damascus to Tehran that freedom can be the future of every nation," the president said. "The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution."

Bush even invoked the blessing of a divine power, the "author of freedom," suggesting that he is not merely an overambitious imperial president but rather a modern Moses armed with smart bombs and Black Hawk helicopters come to liberate an enslaved people.

Bush presents his vision as bold and new when it is nothing of the sort.

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Democracy cannot exist without truth and genuine self-determination. A liar cannot be a liberator if the flowering of democracy is truly the endgame.

[Paschall]

1. I predict this headline is gonna become a bumper sticker

Great article, as usual from Scheer. Thanks for the post. :thumbsup:

[Demeter]

2. Cognitive Dissonance

What makes this invasion and occupation part of the Twilight/1984/Brave New World/Farenheight 451/Dystopian genre is that the man who claims he's "only doing it to install democracy in Iraq" is doing his damnedest to wipe it out completely in the US of A. I get migraines listening to Bush!

[newyawker99]

3. Hi Demeter!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: