By Max J. Castro, posted at Progreso Weekly
“Dead wrong.” That’s what the president’s own hand-picked committee on intelligence gathering said last week about the information concerning Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that the Bush administration used to bamboozle Americans and attempt to browbeat the world into backing war.
“Dead wrong.” That’s what Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta – a conservative judge appointed by the president’s own father – just about said last week in a scathing opinion in which he castigated Congress and President Bush for attempting to usurp the authority of the judiciary in the case of Terri Schiavo…
Whether the subject is global warming, weapons of mass destruction in
The Bush syndrome also means that those who dare question the illegitimate actions that flow from the administration’s Orwellian logic are targeted for punishment…
[T]he Bush administration’s preference for believing in and acting upon its own ideologically driven delusions over reality has already produced disastrous consequences in the form of war and massive Iraqi and American casualties. More tragedy is sure to follow if Bush is allowed to implement his domestic and international agenda during the second term…
[There are now] many examples of those who have said “No!” to Bush’s multiple abuses of power. The number, courage, and influence of those who resist can only grow with the latest Republican transgression against common sense and common decency.
