The title of this diary is the a quote from Bush I just saw a few minutes ago in an AP article on Yahoo.
The full article is here.
This is my first diary, and as much as I have to say at times, I often do not feel what I have to say merits it's own diary, but even just the title of this article made my blood boil.
More below the fold.
Here we are on the fourth anniversary of Bush playing "Top Gun", landing a fighter jet on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln to declare "Mission Accomplished" with a massive banner hanging across the front of the conning tower reading the same.
We were told:
Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.
But since this declaration of "Mission Accomplished" we have seen conditions on the ground become worse and worse. And when we think it can't get any worse, it does. So many people have died I have yet to find a good, accurate number on the Internet because in order to be accurate a web site would need a real-time counter.
And the last few months, even our friends are leaving us with the check.
All of the news coming out of Iraq is almost enough to make one numb. For the life of me I cannot understand how someone can be in such denial.
Now in the most recent news,
President Bush said Tuesday that Democrats who made the legislation a showdown over withdrawing U.S. troops could turn
Iraq into a terror-spreading "cauldron of chaos" with their approach.
Cauldron of chaos? As if it can get any more chaotic?
Perhaps if you did not engage in a pre-emptive war with Iraq there would not be any chaos.
Perhaps if you did not invade a sovereign nation that was unable to project conventional power against his neighbors there would not be any chaos.
"(Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Feb. 24, 2001
Perhaps if you listened to your military folks (your hypocrisy on this matter could be subject of diaries unto it's own) who know what they are doing, such as General Shinseki who said this about the number of troops needed to occupy Iraq:
"It could be as high as several hundred thousand,"
Perhaps if you didn't lie - remember this -
"the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,"
President Bush - 2003 State of the Union
we would not have invaded Iraq and there would not be the chaos there is today.
And yes your intelligence was WRONG
I could really go on and on and on. But in the end, you can always blame the Supreme Court because if not for them you would have NEVER been put into the White House, and NEVER had the chance to ruin my once great country.
I am still amazed at how in 6 years of office you managed to wreck what 225 years before you managed to build.
Do the right thing - put the veto pen away, go to Crawford, play with your dog, read your children's books, drink a tall glass of shut the fuck up, and let us get the troops home where they belong and stop letting them be third-party casualties in a civil war.
--Jon