Bush’s Flight from Justice
Published in Resalat News
(Iran) on 02 January 2009
by Vahid Kouche Meshki (link to original)
George W. Bush, the worst president of the United States to date, knows that at the end of his term he will have left the worst period of his life behind, with his hands in so much bloodshed across the world. His future will be very bleak if his doings in the past have any moral consequences.
Even Americans believe that Bush should be brought to justice. With his ambitious and harmful actions that have left the world with a negative image of America, he should not be left to go back to a comfortable life at his ranch in Texas. The “New York Times” has indicated that the shoe-throwing event by the Iraqi reporter was simply another indication of his unpopularity and worldwide image.
The “Times” analyzes Bush’s situation with particular transparency: while Israel is attacking Palestinians in Gaza and with the dire economic situation within the U.S., we hardly hear about Bush anymore. He essentially walked away from his job a while ago, relieving many Americans, but he should not be allowed to leave unpunished.
Americans know that he has involved the U.S. in an unnecessary and misguided war in Iraq; he implicated the U.S. in the Guantanamo Bay torture scandal; he is the one who ruined the economic prosperity of the Clinton era and used up America’s budget surplus; he is the one who was in doubt when Katrina’s tsunami engulfed the helpless citizens in New Orleans; he is the one who went against the constitutional rights and freedoms of American citizens by passing new legislation such as the Patriot Act, allowing the unwarranted surveillance of American citizens; he is the one who has fostered the negative image of America onto the rest of the world; he is the one who allowed Dick Chaney to act like a wild boar and profit tremendously from an unjustified war.
Bush took advantage of public fear while creating the illusion that Iraq was about to plan a nuclear attack on America. Bush started a war whose flames are still burning after six years, while more than four thousand American soldiers and hundreds of Iraqi have been unfortunately killed. Joseph Stiglitz, the winner of the Nobel prize in economics believes that this war will cost trillions of dollars.
Additionally, the economy is another part of Bush’s fiasco that has brought the American middle-class down to poor and needy while making the rich even richer. This has created a huge disparity among Americans—not to mention the economic depression that is evolving. Nevertheless, if there are moral repercussions in this world, Bush will not live the rest of his life in comfort because of the crimes he has committed.
Even Americans believe that Bush should be brought to justice. With his ambitious and harmful actions that have left the world with a negative image of America, he should not be left to go back to a comfortable life at his ranch in Texas. The “New York Times” has indicated that the shoe-throwing event by the Iraqi reporter was simply another indication of his unpopularity and worldwide image.
The “Times” analyzes Bush’s situation with particular transparency: while Israel is attacking Palestinians in Gaza and with the dire economic situation within the U.S., we hardly hear about Bush anymore. He essentially walked away from his job a while ago, relieving many Americans, but he should not be allowed to leave unpunished.
Americans know that he has involved the U.S. in an unnecessary and misguided war in Iraq; he implicated the U.S. in the Guantanamo Bay torture scandal; he is the one who ruined the economic prosperity of the Clinton era and used up America’s budget surplus; he is the one who was in doubt when Katrina’s tsunami engulfed the helpless citizens in New Orleans; he is the one who went against the constitutional rights and freedoms of American citizens by passing new legislation such as the Patriot Act, allowing the unwarranted surveillance of American citizens; he is the one who has fostered the negative image of America onto the rest of the world; he is the one who allowed Dick Chaney to act like a wild boar and profit tremendously from an unjustified war.
Bush took advantage of public fear while creating the illusion that Iraq was about to plan a nuclear attack on America. Bush started a war whose flames are still burning after six years, while more than four thousand American soldiers and hundreds of Iraqi have been unfortunately killed. Joseph Stiglitz, the winner of the Nobel prize in economics believes that this war will cost trillions of dollars.
Additionally, the economy is another part of Bush’s fiasco that has brought the American middle-class down to poor and needy while making the rich even richer. This has created a huge disparity among Americans—not to mention the economic depression that is evolving. Nevertheless, if there are moral repercussions in this world, Bush will not live the rest of his life in comfort because of the crimes he has committed.
ok as an american and an old one I have witnessed american poltics for a long time.
first bush will not be brought to justice by american courts.
the other party the democratics are spineless and fearful. they supported bush’s war all the way with money. mega money.
bush knows the democrats the very best. they voted for the iraq war for fear of being looked at as easy on terrorism. he knew that.
next most americans in their hearts are imperialists. they do not know they are imperialists as they have been conditioned to think all of their war mongering is for their freedom.
the cost of the iraq war and the afgan war will break the back of the american economy.
this is not a recession but a decline of wealth for america. america has printed money and borrowed money for decades to try and maintain its standard of living.
what we sow we reap. it is reap time in america.
please note few americans want to reduce the size of the industrial military complex that benefits the few at the expense of the many.
few americans care less about the damage we have done to the iraqi people like we cared less about the million vietnamese we killed in that other illegal war for profits.
americans protested the vietnam war due to the draft not the vietnamese people being killed.
we have southern states in america that raise their children to fight in these illegal wars and the parents are proud of their children for doing so. they call them heros for doing so.
every one of our soldiers are called heros for fighting in these illegal wars.
so sad to watch your country do such things in the world and watch your country in such rapid decline. but it must be, war mongering has its price.
we are beginning to pay that price. it will get worst much worst. the world will be safer for our decline.