Selected Editorials - The Sikh Bulletin

There is no doubt in any reasonable mind that this administration’s
whole argument to go to war in Iraq was based on falsehood garnished
with manipulated intelligence; and when Colin Powell was making a
case before the Security Council to go to war against Iraq he was lying
and he knew he was lying. That is why he had CIA Chief George
Tenet, who along with Cheney was a willing accomplice in this crime
of manipulating intelligence to attack a UN member nation without UN
authorization, sit behind him. After Tenet was done doing his dirty
work Bush thanked him by awarding him a civilian medal of service.
All those Congressmen and Senators from both parties, who voted for
this war, ought to have resigned. Now they are equally guilty. There are
reports in the press that Bush administration is seriously planning air
strike against Iran’s nuclear power facilities and its encouragement to Israel to go after Hezbollah was a
trial run geared towards that goal. Hezbollah survived and perhaps so did the long range rockets that
could reach Tel Aviv, to be unleashed only if and when US tax payer financed bombs fall on Tehran. Iraq
war has already benefited Iran beyond their wildest dreams; turned United States into an international
pariah; and an attack will further improve Iran’s position in the Middle East and the world. Colin Powell
has finally mustered some moral courage and in a letter to Sen. John McCain who has teamed up with
Senators John Warner and Lindsey Graham, all Republicans, in opposing Bush’s attempt to change the
Geneva Convention Title III, come out with the statement that “the world is beginning to doubt the
moral basis of our fight against terrorism”, leading to the following frown and statement from
Bush:
“It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United
States of America and the action of Islamic extremists," President Bush says at Friday’s (Sept. 15, 2006)
news conference.
Is it really Ask those on the receiving end of the US behavior.
At the United Nations he talked down to the people of Iran and Syria. He lectured the Iranians about their
government squandering their resources on terrorists and implied that they are not a democracy. Having
squandered hundreds of billions of this country’s dollars in throwing his weight around in Afghanistan,
Iraq, Lebanon and itching to do the same in Iran it is a case of a pot calling kettle black. Iran is not a
democracy but Israel is where non-Jews are second class citizens
Population make up in USA is rapidly changing. Without blind US support Israel is nothing. If Israel
continues on this course of arrogance there is no doubt in this writer’s mind that a day will come, may be
in not too distant future, when history will repeat itself. If Israeli leaders are wise they would beg the Arab
countries to once again offer to recognize it in exchange for withdrawing from the occupied Arab lands,
an offer it had arrogantly refused only a few years ago. Solution is political not military. Otherwise, in the
next round the corrupt states and lap dogs of USA, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt won’t be there to
condemn Hezbollah or its successor, just as Hezbollah wasn’t there when Sharon the butcher authorized
and watched the massacre of Palestinian women and children in Beirut by the Lebanese Christians. Israel
fully expected for Christians to rise against Hezbollah and greet them as liberators just as Bush crowd
expected to be greeted as liberators in Iraq; neither transpired.
Bush crowd lives in a world of make believe, totally divorced from reality: ‘Iraqis will greet them as
liberators’, not as invaders and occupiers; rush to announce ‘Mission Accomplished’ when in reality the
troubles were just starting; ‘Situation in Iraq is improving’ when the Iraqis say they are in a civil war;
‘Hezbollah has lost’ when not only the rest of the world, Tony Blair excluded, but also even the Israelis
hold the opposite view. Some leaders create great nations while others bring them into decline. Bush
Blair duo is doing it to USA and UK.
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