- Wasn't it President G. Bush who back on May 1, 2003 celebrated
victory over Saddam's forces in the Iraqi War aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln?
Why did we invade Iraq in the first place? Bush offers we should "stay
the course" and continue to massacre and be killed to honor our military
dead who already gave their lives and limbs in that war.
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- But what about our military dead in all wars fought by
Americans - shouldn't we honor them as well? Shouldn't we treasure the
peace and freedom on our shores for which they paid the ultimate sacrifice?
How are we honoring all our military dead resultant from all the wars they
ever fought by suspending our freedoms via the USA PATRIOT Act that abolishes
our Bill of Rights?
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- How are we honoring our war dead by allowing the President
of the United States to incarcerate American citizens without warrants
obtained proving probable cause? And how so when those so arrested and
incarcerated are not permitted legal counsel, not allowed to confront their
accusers, or to know the charges against them, and then not allowed a trial
by a jury of their peers? Is this what our generations of war dead died
for?
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- Is it Bush and his supporters, contention that America's
heroes died to suspend habeas corpus? Is it their contention that these
deaths were honorable so that now Americans who wish to petition our government
for grievances must do so only in designated "free speech zones"
bordered by razor wire and guarded by machine-gun toting police and military
units? Recall these "free speech zones" for protestors at the
political conventions of both the Democrat and Republican Parties.
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- Did America's heroes die to strengthen America's war-making
capabilities allowing the President of the United States alone to decide
which nations to invade for his personal reasons and which of such nations,
citizens to kill? In retaliation for the "murder" of four $1,000-a-day
mercenary contractors, Bush ordered the destruction by napalm the carpet-bombing
the entire city of Fallujah, Iraq. Does this act of mass murder insanity,
whereby innocent children, men, women and the aged were massacred, really
honor our war dead? And do such war crimes perpetrated by Bush and his
administration honor our military, its maimed, its dead, and our national
character and history? How does "staying the course" in any way,
shape or form, in order to execute more of the same brutal war crimes,
add to our military's honor and legitimacy of moral purpose?
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- And if the dead are to be so honored by simply adding
to those already sacrificed for this unjust and unnecessary war, then in
spite of the fallaciousness as to the claim that our military must continue
to supply Bush's vision as to the necessity of the invasion and its continuing
carnage, then why isn't HE at least proud of the dead service personnel
who have sacrificed their all for his high-level political vision? Why
hasn't he honored some of our war dead himself personally? He has yet to
appear at any military funeral or military group funeral honoring the fallen.
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- Why have he and his administration shunned the flag-draped
caskets for those that gave their lives for Bush's quest to remove Saddam
from power, ease the concerns of Israel, control Mid East oil, and rally
to the flag responding to the now-proven-to-be false claims of Iraq and
Saddam having participated in and being complicit in "9-11"?
Why has Bush and his administration ordered the media not to photograph
the delivery of our war dead to Dover Air Force Base?
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- And if Saddam and Iraq and Osama and 9-11 were so horrible
so as to necessitate the complete suspension of our personal freedoms by
government, and Bush and his administration offer their suspension as necessary
for our security, then why weren't his newly-created Department of Homeland
Security and FEMA unable to provide safety and security for New Orleans?
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- Now the same mercenary rent-a-soldiers that patrolled
Fallujah just before Bush napalmed it almost out of existence, are helping
machine-gun toting police and military to patrol the streets of New Orleans,
seeking to arrest American "evildoers" residing there. And of
course, "it's for their own good!" And declaring New Orleans
to be under martial law allows for Bush to totally ignore the 1878 Posse
Commitatus, yet another violation of legal restrictions against federal
government force against its own citizens.
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- And as Bush and his administration hide and do not wish
publicity for our war dead, FEMA is now threatening the media to not publicize
or photograph the dead in New Orleans. They are yet more proof of the inhumanity,
incapability, and abject failure of American government to provide for
the security of its people. Considering all that we have lost, shouldn't
it be obvious to all as to the real fatalities in all these Bush disasters?
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- Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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