{"id":82,"date":"2007-01-11T02:14:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T02:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/?p=40"},"modified":"2007-01-11T02:14:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T02:14:40","slug":"george-w-bush-man-or-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/01\/11\/george-w-bush-man-or-moron\/","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush: Man or Moron?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSo George Bush gives us platitudes, pats us on the head and tells us daddy knows best: the only way to succeed in Iraq and make America safe from the menace of al Qaeda is to increase troop levels there and send more American kids off to their deaths.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What a load of tripe!<\/em><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t believe he\u2019s still peddling the tired myths about al Qaeda.
\nLet\u2019s get this straight: before we got involved in Iraq, there was no link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Sure, they were both Sunni Muslims, but to say that they were even on speaking terms is a fantasy \u2013 Saddam was a secular Sunni; bin Laden is devout. Politically, theologically, philosophically and otherwise, bin Laden and Hussein were diametrically opposed.<\/p>\n

To suggest that they were buddies because they were both Arabs is like saying Hillary Clinton and Jerry Falwell are best friends because they\u2019re both Americans. Ludicrous at best.<\/p>\n

By invading Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein, we created an opportunity<\/em> for al Qaeda to fight us head to head, in a territory where (once Saddam was out of the picture) they had friends.<\/p>\n

Our invasion of Iraq is the best thing that ever happened to al Qaeda \u2013 because now they\u2019ve got people beating down the door to volunteer to fight the \u201cCrusaders\u201d as they call us.<\/p>\n


\nThe worst thing we could ever do to al Qaeda would be to leave Iraq<\/em> \u2013 it\u2019d leave them without a purpose, no one to fight (except other Arabs). Yeah, they would have won, but who cares? It\u2019s more their country than it is ours.<\/p>\n

We have no business in Iraq<\/u> \u2013 we never did<\/em>. There never<\/em> were any Weapons of Mass Destruction. There were never<\/em> any ties between Saddam and al Qaeda, or 9\/11. None. And Saddam was never<\/em> a menace to anyone outside Iraq \u2013 never.
\nThe Bush administration made up<\/em> their case for the invasion \u2013 the whole thing was 100% fabrication. Lies, deceit and more lies.<\/p>\n

According to reports, Bush was looking for justification to invade Iraq right from the time he was elected \u2013 way before 9\/11. It\u2019s been suggested the whole thing between him and Saddam was because, as Bush put it, \u201cThat man tried to murder my dad,\u201d <\/em><\/a>, referring to a 1993 assassination attempt on Bush senior by Saddam. Read this article from The New Yorker<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

.<\/a>Whatever Bush\u2019s private, base motivations, the United States had no business invading Iraq <\/em>\u2013 and we have no business there now. Every day we linger just exacerbates the problems.<\/p>\n

The country is in the throes of a heated<\/em> civil war \u2013 that\u2019s plain. All the different sides hate us passionately. The only thing our presence there does is to unify the various sides \u2013 against us <\/em>\u2013 because we\u2019re the one enemy they can all agree on.<\/p>\n

All the military and counter-insurgency experts agree that 20,000 troops is too little, too late. The military commanders in Iraq themselves opposed the plan. So, Bush fired them and cast around till he found some generals that would shut up and take orders.<\/p>\n

This must end now.<\/em>
\nOver 3,000 American soldiers have needlessly given their lives for Bush\u2019s private little war<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I say enough! We must get our troops out of Iraq now, before we waste any more precious American lives. Let the Iraqis fight it out among themselves \u2013 as they will do anyways.<\/p>\n

So let’s bring the troops back home right now. And let’s get that moron Bush out of office before he destroys our great country…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So George Bush gives us platitudes, pats us on the head and tells us daddy knows best: the only way to succeed in Iraq and make America safe from the menace of al Qaeda is to increase troop levels there and send more American kids off to their deaths. What a load of tripe! I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}