A Confused Speech By A Confused President

No mention of Bush Institute of International Terror Inspired By His War

Just as I was about to complete my paper on the betrayal and virtual murder of a peacemaking king, I read three newspapers here in Amman, (The Jordan Times, The International Herald Tribune and Lebanon’s Daily Star) which each carried shocking accounts of the comprehensive betrayals of two nations, Iraq and the United States. These betrayals were graphically revealed in President Bush’s anniversary speech which marked the end of the first year of the new government of Iraq.

What stabs at my own heart is this. The man who is supposed to be leading the world is living in a fantasy land of dancing fairies and wishful thinking. But he is such an amazing con-artist that he has manipulated the majority of the American public into believing that he is making both the U.S. and the world safer by cleverly convincing Americans to believe a fantasy.

His main argument is this. Due to the horrible terror suddenly inflicted on the U.S. on 9/11, he had a patriotic responsibility to send our powerful military to Iraq in order stomp out the terror there which caused 9/11 and if unchecked could cause another 9/11 or much worse. But while the troops are there in Iraq stomping out the cause of 9/11, our government can establish a Democracy in Iraq which will be a beacon of light to the unstable Middle East and thus the world will no longer need to fear the Middle East Muslim world being a major future source of terrorism. The three major fallacies in his reasoning are these:

Iraq’s government and its people had nothing to do with the horrible destruction that took place on 9/11.

Neither to stomp out the terrorism that actually did not exist in Iraq nor to establish a Democracy in Iraq were the reasons that he originally told the U.S. and the world that a “coalition of the willing” was organized to go to Iraq.

There were tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens in Iraq who had strong convictions that it was their right to forcefully resist the outside U.S. forces who had come to impose a new Democratic government on Iraq. (These persons were soon given the negative label of insurgents but a more accurate title is resisters.) However, there is no way that they should be confused with the men operating under the Osama Bin Laden umbrella who brought the terror to the U.S. on 9/11. None of the resisters had a quarrel with the U.S. before the U.S. invaded their shores.

Before this wild, irresponsible President Bush brought this awkwardly designed war to Iraq, the tragedy in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and the tragedy of 9/11 sponsored by Osama Bin Laden were two entirely separate tragedies. But now, thousands of outside, non Iraqi men of terror have been attracted to Iraq in order to fight the same Americans and coalition forces which the Iraqi resisters are fighting. But the two groups have not become one united group fighting shoulder to shoulder against the invaders. For the most part the Iraqi resisters actually want the foreign persons of terror out of their country even though they are killing Americas invaders through terror tactics.

It is naive to think that a heavily weaponized, mighty Western invasion force, coercively imposing its democracy solution on Iraq would not attract young men from all over the Middle Eastern Muslim world and beyond to bring terror to the U.S. invaders. Of course, many of these terror perpetrators who came to Iraq from other nations are going to make common cause with Al Qaeda or similar organizations sponsoring terror. Of course men such as Abu Musab Zarqaui and men inspired by his leadership are going to finally identify themselves with the world stature Al Qaeda has achieved for daring to stand up to the arrogance of Western leadership. Of course a committed man like Osama Bin Laden is going to publicly be a cheer leader for those who are successful in accomplishing horrible terror against the American military and against the Iraqis associated with the U.S. military. But it was the U.S presence in Iraq which set in motion the horrible set of terrorist events in Iraq and these kinds of road side bombs and suicide terrorism and chaos were not in Iraq until after it was announced by President George Bush aboard a U.S. war ship that the American mission had been accomplished in Iraq, that most of these terror tactics started.

So it was the American presence as victors and forceful establishers of a foreign democracy that attracted the terrorists to Iraq and they were not there before we got there.

In a contradiction of reality, the fantasy that the Presidential snake oil salesman is selling to the American voters is as ridiculous a spin on a regrettable but mostly preventable chain of events, as could be conceived of by an amazingly creative Bush spin team. It is now presented to the ever optimistic and trusting U.S. public, that it is a wonderful benefit to vulnerable U.S. citizens that Muslim men of terror from throughout the Muslim world are being drawn to Iraq like small nails are attracted to a powerful magnet. For the reasoning is that once they are drawn there by our courageous but vulnerable troops, they can be killed or captured there rather than remaining free to later commit acts of terror in the U.S. While still living in this fantasyland he virtually presupposes that there are a finite number of those mostly Muslim men in the world who yearn to bring terror to our troops in Iraq and also terror to those Iraqis who cooperate with and assist our troops. Similarly, he or his speechwriters seem to operate from the false assumption that there is a sort of definite number of these men who would desire to bring terror to the continental U.S. They seem to think that the number who would wish to bring terror to our U.S. occupying force in Iraq is quite finite, say 27,397, that when we have killed or captured these 27,397 men who are given to terror, we have won the war on terrorism, and have made both our shores and the shores of other nations more or less safe and secure.

But what our President does not realize or does not publicly acknowledge is this. Every time he opens his mouth in his strident manner and arrogantly challenges disillusioned, unemployed young men all over the world who are searching for meaning, this President actually recruits them to join the growing, not diminishing number of people of terror. He is amazingly effective in further antagonizing those who oppose him and actually encourages them to join the ranks of those who detest the arrogance that he seems to enjoy projecting. He does not understand that this is a much different world that exists now than the one that Winston Churchill’s speeches effectively rallied the discouraged Brits to wage war against.

This next observation will be misinterpreted by most Americans but I will say it anyway. This President’s public persona of arrogance is no competition to the well thought out confident, persuasiveness Osama Bin Laden projects. This does not make Mr. Bin Laden right and the President wrong, but until President Bush learns to touch the hearts and the minds of the disenfranchised, he is going to remain the world’s unequalled recruiter of those who will oppose all of the good he claims to stand for.

Does he even realize that before we conducted our arrogant, reckless war on Iraq which totally savaged its infrastructure and totally destroyed all human organizations in Iraq which had the ability to maintain order in Iraq, the number of young people in the entire Muslim world who had given any thought to personally bringing terror to the U.S. was exceptionally finite, say 234, But now, because of the perceived arrogance our leaders project regarding the ultimate success of our occupation in Iraq, and the certainty of our victory over those who have a different view of the world than ourselves, and our willingness to bend principles of morality in our treatment of prisoners and our continued unequivocal support of Israel’s virtually total exploitation of the Palestinians, that formerly quite finite number of those who are enraged at U.S. leadership and who yearn to bring terror to our shores has exploded and is now virtually infinite.

What the President does not mention in his carefully scripted “We will fight them on the beaches” speeches, is this: The situation in Iraq is not static for those who bring terror to Americans and Iraqis there. Nor is the situation static for those who would like to eventually bring terror to the shores of America. When men of terror are attracted to fight America in Iraq, they do not become trapped in Iraq like a large quantity of fish in a giant net until they are either killed or captured. When they come to Iraq, most certainly a percentage are killed or captured. But a far larger percentage than those who are killed or captured, receive what they consider is quite valuable on the job training. When the training is considered sufficient they no longer stay in Iraq because victory in Iraq is not their immediate goal. It is only a means to an end. So they once again return safely to their home country or to another country and eagerly but patiently wait for another place to apply what they have learned. According to the June 30, 05 Jordan Times, a May C.I.A. report came out only weeks before the President’s Speech emphasizing this horrible reality that his speech conveniently ignored.

“A C.I.A. report in May concluded that post –invasion Iraq had become a training ground for Islamic militants who could disperse and carry out attacks elsewhere.”

Perhaps the President does not yet realize that he has unintentionally created in Iraq a Bush training Institute for Terrorism in order to train those who will carry what they have learned in Iraq to the U.S. and to the ends of the earth. Nevertheless, he specifically stated in his speech:

“So we will fight them there...we will fight them across the world and we’ll stay in the fight until the fight is won.”

However, he did not make his Winston Churchill like statement about eventually winning the fight wherever it needs to be fought in the realistic context in which it belongs if it is to be more than irrelevant Texas rhetoric. It is we ourselves who have multiplied and multiplied the number of terrorists so that it is now quite conceivable that their number is now beyond our capacity to track them “across the world” and kill or capture them all “until the fight is won.”

Consequently, rather than imitating the fiery blood and guts speech of that amazing statesman, Winston Churchill, whose fiery rhetoric helped save Britain from the Nazis, it would have been far more appropriate for the shallow President to have appealed to the wisdom of the humble comic book character, Charlie Brown, who in a time of blazing insight he correctly observed: “We have met the enemy and he is us!”

Yes, it is now the task of Americans to figure out a way to save the U.S. from the enemy our own President has so resourcefully created.

So the first President Bush betrayed and deceived our nation and also betrayed and deceived the valiant peacemaker, King Hussein. He successfully tricked virtually everyone into thinking that we truly did not want the Iraq invasion of Kuwait and did not want the first Gulf War when we actually craved them both. The Iraq invasion of Kuwait was the first Bush’s equivalent of weapons of mass destruction to give us our needed excuse for raining destruction on Iraq.

But the younger Bush has definitely surpassed his clever C.I.A. trained Father in the art of deception. He has cleverly deceived a whole nation and even himself into believing an enormous lie. We all are expected to believe that he is spilling streams of Iraqi and U.S. blood in Iraq in order to protect the home shores of our U.S. nation. However, by the storm of rage that he has created against the U.S. and the effective International Terrorist Training Program which he has expertly established in Iraq, he has unintentionally set the stage for potential rivers of blood to be spilled especially in the vulnerable U.S. So unless hundreds of these men and women’s wounded hearts and minds are soon healed by ALLAH’S true man of peace, His Risen Messiah, the road ahead looks quite dark for the U.S. For without extraordinary intervention by ALLAH’S Mercy, this misdirected, simplistic and lethal Bush has created a dread filled future for many citizens of our world and especially for U.S. citizens.