I have a few problems with the President praising the criminal George Bush

Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the End of Combat Operations in Iraq | The White House

So tonight President Barack Obama jumped the shark by praising the criminal George Bush for heroically lying this nation into an illegal war against a sovereign nation that has led to the death of thousands of young men and women in our armed forces and the maiming tens of thousands more.  Of course, Bush broke a lot of laws, many of them Constitutional, but for some reason he has been given a pass like Foggerty's Fortunate Son.  This has had the effect of rendering American justice a joke, a laughingstock even by Iranian standards.  A nation of law my ass.

If there is a set of lenient standards for the rich and harsh standards for us poor, then equality does not exist in America any more.  If a rich man can steal the Presidency of the United States, allow a major terrorist attack on our soil, start 2 wars he couldn't finish, spy on us Americans, eavesdrop on our phone calls, torture innocent-until-proven-guilty prisoners to death without the Constitutional requirements of due process, leave this nation in one of its worst economic disasters in history and walk away from it without the cops carting him off to jail, then you know this country's ethics stink and its morality no better than sewage waste.  If justice is not equally applied to all citizens regardless of status, class or wealth, then we are no better than those peasants of the past who once served queen or king or noble  because they were forced to.  Bush is American nobility it seems, so, like his medieval counterparts, will face no justice even though our laws and the voices of the dead demands it.

Another issue I had with the speech was this whole "we went into Iraq to disarm it" crap.  No, we invaded Iraq to get at her oil as any one with the memory will recall.  Bush and Cheney suggested that the Iraqi oil revenues would cover the cost of this quixotic war venture as well as pad their pocketbooks with lucrative PR&B contracts.  There was nothing to disarm. 

Some think the invasion was right simply to get rid of Saddam, but that's horse puckies as Col. Potter would say.  The American government under Republikkkan leadership put Saddam in power.  They kept him in power, armed him and helped suppress those that would oppose him.  It's our government's fault Saddam killed all those 100s of thousands of people in all those unmarked graves we find.  They were killed by OUR bullets and gassed by our anthrax.  Saddam couldn't have been the tyrant he was without our federal government actively supporting him.  So the Iraq war is more like a mob hit then anything else and our soldiers were the hitters.

So here we are now and it's almost 2011.  Tempus fugit, they tell me.  America still chooses to exist in a "post 9/11 world" instead of pursuing the truth about what really happened and who was really involved in the events of that day.  Until I saw the rocket launched from an Army helicopter into the Pentagon for myself, I wouldn't have believed it either.  Still the images are there for all to see.  The 8 odd seconds of amateurishly doctored footage the FBI released that they had previously confiscated from area businesses around the pentagon clearly shows it if you adjust the settings on your video playing devices properly and go frame by frame.  The helicopter and missile are removed, of course, but their aura or ghost images remain.  You can see the missile advance as whoever doctored the video (badly) added fire explosion appear on the upper parts of the frame.  Until someone can tell me the truth about that, I will never accept that we live in a post 9/11 world because our military or secretive intelligence agencies were involved somehow.

Well, those are the only 2 groups that I could think of who own helicopters here in the United States.  Perhaps this truly was a cabal and Bush has more to answer for than we the people are willing to admit to themselves.  Whatever the truth is, my government had some involvement in that day.

Actually, that's the last thing I took from the Iraq speech.  The myths of 9/11 are going to be perpetuated and used over and over again to justify all manner of extremes from our federal government, a government that can now, thanks to Bush, assassinate it's own citizens if a few powerful men decide you need to die.  Right now, you can be declared a traitor without any court oversight at all.  As if any American court could even call these powerful men to justice! Even the will of the people wasn't powerful enough to accomplish that.

Me, I'm from the Mark Twain school of thought that all politicians are liars and are hiding something.  So when our government tells you a made up story and tries to bury the facts, you know they are hiding something.  Why didn't Bush or Cheney agree to be sworn to testify under oath?  Because they were hiding something.  Innocent people always want to take the stand in their own defense, but these 2 cowards hid behind their lawyers and cried executive privilege!

Free people should ALWAYS view their government with questions and suspicions because these leaders of America are all a bunch of crooks and snake oil sales people bent on selling you a product.  If only it weren't so easy to sell us their wars and adorn them so easily with the gaudy ornaments of patriotism, heroism and the like; just a little something to give everyone in America a sense of communal pride at what glorious bastards we have become.

George Bush is no hero.  History proves he was never lawfully elected President though we Americans were sure good at bending over taking those last 8 years those smarmy bastards shoved up our collective puckered sphincters.  And do you know why we touched our toes and spread our cheeks?  Because we know our Democracy is a sham; we know our government is out of control; because we know in our heart of hearts we will never, ever have equal justice or an end to war ever again because a few greedy men who already have everything they could ever want have greed in their hearts and dollar signs in their eyes.

George Bush destroyed my America, left it to bleed a slow death, the same way he'd kill little animals as a boy, he watched it with those same dead eyes and that same grotesque fascination.  He has cursed all of us with this new America, this post 9/11 Orwellian farm where we have come to find that some animals are indeed more equal than others.