Bush's democracy of hypocrisy

In a brilliant piece of public marketing one year later on September 12, 2002, President Bush addressed the United Nations Security Council regarding military action against Iraq. Not that Iraq had anything to do with 9-11 or bin-Laden for that matter, but that didn’t seem to bother anybody at the time.

Suddenly Iraq was stockpiling Weapons of Mass Destruction. Hans Blix, the United Nations chief weapons inspector couldn’t find any, but Bush and his buddies were certain Saddam was hiding them somewhere in that big sand pit of his.

Operation Iraqi Liberation was to be a great success and finally the cowboy commander-in-chief would be able to liberate all of the oppressed oil from Saddam’s tyrannical regime.

I guess the small and ever so trivial fact that the US had already ratified and signed the Iraqi Liberation Act in 1998 had nothing to do with their intentions in the region, or the imminent invasion.

The US and the coalition of the willing ignored UN Security Council procedures and pursued without any authorisation, an invasion deemed illegal under international law. Operation Iraqi Liberation or Operation Iraqi Freedom as it was quickly renamed to avoid the acronym of OIL had given itself the green light.

In the early hours of the morning on March 20, 2003, the skies over Baghdad were stained with the blood of Bush’s biblical battle. The city was burning as innocent civilians were blown to bits and the pre emptive strike Shock and Awe was hailed as a military success.

With the fall of Baghdad and Bush’s triumphant “mission accomplished” speech, the world had forgotten about the already decimated Afghanistan and it’s freshly hand picked puppet government. This was a convenient breather for the wartime President, as he had unfinished business back in the homeland.

Masses of e-voting glitches, voter intimidation and suppression, a larger number of votes than there where voters, and foreign monitors being barred from polls; It’s not election day with Robert Mugabe, but rather the 2004 US election.

Computers were losing entered votes and there were multiple accounts of machines producing a vote for Bush when the voter pressed the button for his opponent John Kerry. The Bush administration was definitely leading by example in its moral battle for freedom and democracy.

In one of his many speeches about Iraq, President Bush addressed the world and said “We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas”, but the only chemical agents found in Iraq were those that US marines had used on Iraqis.

White Phosphorous, or WP as it is known as by the marines, is a chemical weapon usually used as a dense smoke screen; but the effects upon human contact prove to be fatal. Exposure to WP results in extensive second and third degree deep tissue burns, as the phosphorous is absorbed into the body it causes major internal organ damage and even multi organ failure. But it doesn’t count as a chemical weapon when the “good guys” use it … does it?

In his term as President, George W. Bush has invaded and overthrown two countries, threatened an imminent strike against a third and has illegally detained hundreds of innocent people in concentration camps like Abu Ghraib, systematically stripping them of all basic rights and subjecting them to routine humiliation and torture.

From a supposed retaliation for the 2,762 lives lost in the 9-11 attacks George W. Bush and the coalition of the willing have caused the violent deaths of over 1.2 million people, mainly all civilians. On average that is 657 innocent deaths per day for the past five years, and for every one person that lost their life on September 11, 2001, US led forces have killed approximately 434 Iraqis.

Bear in mind that in the time it has taken you to read through this article on average five innocent Iraqis have just been killed.