Guest Column
Bush Veto Continues Failed Policy and Illegal War
Bush Veto
Continues Failed Policy and Illegal War
By Robert Miranda
The recent veto by President Bush of the Democrats? emergency war
funding bill was done because the war spending bill included a timeline
for troop withdrawals, a withdrawal Bush could not agree with.
The Bush veto continues the political posturing of this administration,
which is seeking to spend an additional $124 billion to continue a war
that clearly is lost.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said
the legislation "rejects the president's failed policies in Iraq and his
open-ended commitment to keep American troops there indefinitely and
forges a new direction for a responsible end to the war."
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the U.S. commitment to Iraq was
"long-term," but not open-ended. He said Iraq's political progress and
reconciliation will be taken into account when the United States
evaluates troop levels this summer.
Leave it to the generals, Bush says.
Excuse me Mr. President, but I believe that your generals are saying get
out of Iraq.
Mr. Bush will not be swayed by generals, senators, congress people or
the American people, because Bush is drunk with war and his eyes have
become too bloodshot to even see the whole picture taking place in Iraq.
This is shameful and sad. Our president is unable to grasp the fact that
he is continuing to embolden future aggressive actions against the
United States by not only Al Qaeda, but by every Iraqi family who loses
a son or daughter because of the illegal American occupation of their
country.
The president failed to follow through on capturing Bin Laden because he
was too preoccupied with invading Iraq.
One of those who was part of the Bush cartel before the war, former CIA
chief George Tenet, says now the Bush administration used him as a
scapegoat. He states that debate among top officials was absent when
decisions were made to invade the country.
In other words, we invaded Iraq on the opinion of a small band of
brothers working for the Bush family business.
Tenet said his comment on Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass
destruction being a "slam dunk" was taken out of context by the
administration. Tenet says that the warmongers in the Bush
administration used his comment in order to strengthen Bush?s argument
for going to war.
No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, in fact, no
connection between Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein could be made as well.
Indeed, the Bush veto of this latest effort by the Democrats to bring
home our troops signals his resolve to continue to lie and manipulate
our country. This small band of dangerous gangsters occupying the White
House could have easily shown Al Capone a thing or two about crime.
Robert Miranda, a frequent contributing columnist to HispanicVista.com (http://www.hispanicvista.com) is a national award winning columnist, Latino community activist and Publisher of the Milwaukee Spanish Journal. Email at: rmiranda@wi.rr.com
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