Liar, Liar

The invasion of Iraq was never about Weapons of Mass Destruction, we know. The redeployment of troops from the war in Afghanistan to Iraq was never about a war against terrorism, as is made obvious from our lack of troop deployment to Sudan, or Zimbabwe. The move to topple Saddam Hussein, was never about bringing peace and democracy to a nation which supposedly suffered under the tyrannical rule of the man we found hiding in a crudely dug hole in the desert. George Bush gave us a number of excuses as to why he allowed Dick Cheney the attempt at implanting an Iraqi government with whom it would be easier to cut business deals. Cheney couldn’t inflate the coffers of Halliburton with rulers too stubborn to be bullied into giving up their oil. He had eight years to try, and as we can see from the recent news coming from the leader of Iraq, the invasion was never about toppling a dictator to bring peace and democracy to a nation we sympathize with.

Nouri al Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq, vehemently denounced the continued occupation of Iraq by our forces, and demanded that all foreign troops leave his country by the year 2011. The promise that our troops would come home when the Iraqi security forces were able to secure their country seems to have been forgotten now that George Bush and Dick Cheney have balked on their promise, and are now paying lip-service to al Maliki. The plan presented by the Bush Administration shows only combat forces returning to America, but leaving up to 40,000 troops to remain embedded in Iraq indefinitely.

John McCain once told us that it is a general understanding that American forces have the right to invade to occupy a nation that we deem is harmful to world order and peace. Perhaps world order is the dream of the optimist that George Bush would love to be, instead of the straw-man on strings that Cheney stores in a lock box each night. Perhaps the man who mistook an adrenaline rush for the voice of his god telling him how great he is actually is as innocent as one of the many mentally retarded murderers he had executed during his stint as the Texas governor. Perhaps, but as Ted Kennedy said during his speech last night at the Democratic Convention, “…young Americans in uniform must never be committed to a mistake.” As long as George Bush remains suffering from Multiple-Excuse Disorder, and refuses to give Iraq back to the Iraqi’s, then he is committing the treasonous act of committing our troops to a mistake, and will forever wear the bruise that should be shining beneath a cold steak under Dick Cheney’s eye.