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Trying to Legitimize the
True Lie
Politics/Frank
Salvato, Managing Editor |
January 27, 2005
- The confirmation hearings for Condoleezza Rice’s
nomination to the office of Secretary of State have been cantankerous.
Throughout a process that everyone agreed would end with Dr. Rice being
confirmed, those among the extreme liberal left in the United States Senate
derogated the good doctor as one who had allowed her "respect for the
truth” to become "overwhelmed” by loyalty and branded her a liar. Dr. Rice’s
confirmation hearings became less about her qualifications and the
office of Secretary of State and more about being a vehicle for those
disingenuous extremists categorized as anti-war.
The underlying thought that fuels the obstructionism of the anti-war left in
the senate – as well as around the world – is that President Bush lied in
order to go to war in Iraq. It was the cornerstone of failed presidential
candidate John Kerry’s 2004 campaign and it remains on the lips of every
"head-in-the-sand” liberal politician who refuses to come to grips with the
reality that the American people champion President Bush’s viewpoint. It
doesn’t matter that the "lie” scenario makes no sense; it sounds ominous and
puts them in opposition to a president they believe served four years
illegitimately.
Truth be told, the issue of Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass
destruction was not the singular reason stated by President Bush in asking
congress for the authority to remove him from power. The President made it
abundantly clear on several occasions that there were multiple reasons for
removing him.
Hussein violated UN Security Council Resolution 688, which demanded that the
Iraqi regime "cease at once the repression of its own people, including the
systematic repression of minorities.” In the face of this demand Hussein
continued to methodically subject Iraqis to arbitrary arrest and
imprisonment, summary execution, torture by beating, burning, electric
shock, starvation, mutilation, and rape as reported by the UN’s Commission
on Human Rights. The commission continued to describe how wives were
tortured in front of their husbands and how mothers were tortured,
raped and
killed in front of their children.
President Bush purposely stated this violation, these specific atrocities,
first in his September 13, 2002 address to the United Nations. (All you
bleeding heart liberal extremists out there who use the word atrocity in
connection with Abu Ghraib take note of the true meaning of the word through
Hussein’s actions). For the liberal partisans in our country, especially
those in our government, to routinely gloss over this fact is reprehensible.
For the anti-war element to assert that WMD was the only issue addressed in
the case for military action in Iraq proves beyond any doubt that they are
the ones perpetrating a lie.
Additional reasons specifically given that had nothing to do with weapons of
mass destruction include:
▪ Violations of UN Resolutions 686 & 687 demanding that Iraq return all
prisoners from Kuwait and other lands (years later people from 9 countries
and Kuwait, including one American pilot were still unaccounted for, over
600 people).
▪ Violations of UN Resolutions 687 & 1373 demanding that Iraq renounce all
involvement with terrorism, and permit no terrorist organizations to operate
in Iraq (in the 90’s Hussein’s government attempted to assassinate not only
the Emir of Kuwait but a former President of the United States. They also
offered safe haven to al Qaida terrorists – including Abu Musab al-Zarqawi –
after the US led invasion of Afghanistan as prompted by the attacks of
September 11th).
In addition to these most serious of violations, Saddam Hussein epitomized
the definition of a genocidal maniac, allowing him to take his rightful
place beside Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. His acts of genocide against
his own people mandated anyone possessing human decency to act.
Add to these clearly stated points the following facts. Hussein admitted he
possessed biological weapons while not allowing verification of their
destruction. He admitted to having a crash nuclear program, the labs of
which were found to be operable at the time of the allied invasion in 2003.
Hussein had his military shoot at coalition planes patrolling the "no-fly
zones.” UN Weapons Inspectors repeatedly found banned weaponry after Hussein
said he did not possess them. Now add in the Oil-for-Food Scandal and one
would have to have the intellectual wherewithal of a village idiot with
diminished capacity not to see the gathering threat Saddam Hussein posed,
not only to the United States, but to the world.
Yet extreme liberal, politically correct, socialistic fascists like Ted
Kennedy, Barbara Boxer and Mark Dayton continue to demonstrate their
partisan hatred for President Bush by promoting the lie that the only reason
given for war was Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. WMD may be the only
reason they voted for going to war but there were other very serious and
compelling rationale cited. For them to not place just as much weight on the
whole of the evidence constitutes a dereliction of duty and grounds for
their constituents to remove them from office.
As for Barbara Boxer’s pathetic contention that it was Dr, Rice who was on
the attack during Boxer’s hostile questioning of her during the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee hearing to confirm Dr. Rice as Secretary of
State, a more wretched display of partisanship may never have been exhibited
in American politics. Boxer is a politically correct, divisive, partisan
disgrace and should be sanctioned, with malice, on the floor of the senate.
Related Reading:
Text of President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Speech
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/bushtext_012803.html
President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threats
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html
President Bush’s Speech to the United Nations
http://www.bushcountry.org/bush_speeches/president-bush-speech-091302.htm
Dems Opposed to Rice , War Sound Off
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/1/25/134903.shtml
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