Jimmy Carter's Right! Presidents Should Not Be Liars.
By Jay Diamond
Created May 13 2008 - 9:10am
Jay Diamond
May 13, 2008
This morning, Jimmy Carter has written a post on the Wa****ngton Post's "On
Faith" blog entitled "Presidents Should Not be Liars".
The most glaring, destructive, and disgusting lie invented and maintained
by
the handlers of George W. Bush is their manifestly false insistence that
the
attack on, and occupation of Iraq is of material im****tance to the
security
of the United States.
As in every other instance with this administration, the prime
consideration...or the ONLY consideration with respect to policy has been
the calculation of the political potential in any situation.
Why this is not written or spoken about more in the press and on radio and
television is an enduring mystery and a monumental failure of
"commentators".
Mark me well....Bush et al did Iraq for no other reason than to bring
about
an historic 2004 landslide for Dubya.
They DID think it would be easy and that it would be over in 3 weeks, and
they DID think that all the American soldiers would be home by Christmas
2003.
None other than Sean Hannity indicated this to me in a phone conversation
in
February 2003. In answer to my skepticism about the impending attack, he
said that he was regularly in touch with people "at the top" (likely Rove,
since Hannity's program is a reliable transcript of Rove "information")
and
that they assured him that it was a done deal that the main fighting would
be all over before three weeks, and that the troops would be back by
Christmas that year.
This is a fact, though Hannity will likely deny it. It is, however, the
blunt truth.
But even if this corroboration had not taken place, it is clear to me that
Bush's political wing, which had sway over everything he did, also was
pre-eminent in the planning of the attack and occupation of Iraq.
The point was to bulldoze low-information voters into seeing Bush as
having
avenged 9/11, and thereby to bring about an historic landslide in 2004
which
would have given Bush the "political capital" to truly advance his
domestic
agenda of rolling back the New Deal.
Bear in mind, his first initiative after "re-election" was to vainly
attempt
to privatize, ie, END, Social Security. Well, if he had actually had the
"political capital" he bragged about after barely squeaking by on election
day 2004 by less than 2% ( the lowest re-election percentage by any
president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916)he probably would have succeeded in
castrating Social Security, and would have gone into Republican history
(as
opposed to actual history) as the man who redressed the "evil socialist"
New
Deal, and thereby restored "freedom" to America.
Bottom line: Bush knew Iraq had zero to do with the security of the United
States. And Bush also knew that a quick kill in Iraq would trick huge
numbers of uninformed voters into thinking he had saved them and saved the
USA.
EVERY single US soldier, AND every single Iraqi civilian who has been
killed
since March 20, 2003, died because they were sacrificed to Karl Rove's
"re-election" strategy for Bush in 2004.
Nothing else.
So God Bless Jimmy Carter.
And for that matter, I leave Bush to heaven and the merciful providence he
pur****ts to believe in.
Jay Diamond is a progressive activist and radio commentator, based in New
York.
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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their
spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their
government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are
suffering deeply in spirit,
and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public
debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an op****tunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are
at
stake."
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