The then Secretary of State was quoted as saying: “People will soon thank Bush for what he’s done”
As time passes, memories do fade. Given enough time America’s memory of what Mr. Bush did to America may fade and perhaps America may see Mr. Bush in a softer light. America may become reconciled to the quality of the work performance of the latter-day neocons. And that should will shall be a sad day for America.
Lowering the performance bar in many areas of political endeavor seems easy when the resume appears to be more tuned to political ideology than to performance skills. There were many areas in which the latter-day neocons contributed performance skills whose results turned out to be way less than desirable.
Climate Control:
In an attempt to manage the news about climate change, the Bush team’s man at NASA had discourse with a NASA weather scientist. The weather scientist, not accustomed to this kind of interference from his government, went public with the Bush team’s interference.
Of course, this kind of government behavior was not meant to be publicized so the Bush team’s man left his position with NASA. But prior to leaving, he was quoted as saying – his job was to make the President look good.
Missing, lost or unaccounted-for Iraq war weapons
The case of the missing Iraq war weapons pitted excellent performance skills against political party ideology and performance skills lost – big time.
The pre-2006 neocon Congress cut funding to those auditors who discovered and “TOLD AMERICA” about the missing Iraq war weapons. And of course – we not “talkin” two or three weapons – we “talkin” 190,000 Iraqi war weapons – enough war weapons to outfit an army.
The post 2006 Congress(Democratic control) restored funding to those auditors.
The Iraq war
[Mr. Bush had said he hoped to be remembered as a liberator of the Iraqi people but the “two-shoe presentation” to Mr. Bush by an Iraqi journalist seemed to have ruled out wide acceptance of Mr. Bush as a liberator.]
Americans could hardly thank Mr. Bush for what he has done without considering thanking Mr. Bush for the center-piece of the Bush administration – the Iraq war.
The Iraq war stood out as something quite different from other wars that engulfed the world. While no wars are mirror images of each other, the Iraq war stood out because it was an effect that had no cause.
“NOBODY DON’T KNOW WHY THE IRAQ WAR STARTED”.
It is difficult to thank Mr. Bush for his Iraq war without knowing why he started it.
The “weapons of mass destruction” assertion, though accepted by America’s Congress, failed the validity test conducted by the minds of the world’s humanity. The Bush team’s assertion, fueled by those 16 words spoken in 2003, were backed by a “document” held by the British government who records say was somewhat reluctant to release the “document”. But the “document” did get into the hands of the United Nations’ IAEA. And the rest is history.
The document, once in the hands of the United Nations’ IAEA, was quickly proved to be a phony.
The whole shenanigan could have easily qualified as an “APRIL FOOL’S” joke – if a real war had not been started using that phony document as a cause – thus making the Iraq war an effect that had no cause. But the Bush team did elevate TERRORISM to the world’s conscience while bogged down in fighting the Iraqi war. Some took the shift to world terrorism as the cause of the Iraq war but that was not announced by the one who spoke those 16 words – thus depriving America of a CAUSE for the Iraq war.
Spying on Americans
The neocons seems to have worked under a basic terror suspect premise – all America was a terror suspect. The neocons’ terror hunting program brought the communications conversations of 200 million Americans into focus. It is still a fair question to ask – who hurt America the most – terrorists or terror fighters.
The electronic communications of 200 million Americans may have come under the watchful eyes and ears of the neocon government. Does that not sound stupid?
Practically all of America was a terror suspect. The neocons, who really never demonstrated much of a talent for doing quality work – selected this huge task as their work target. And, as with their Iraq war plan, they spent much time reacting to the execution of the plan after it became public.
America’s FISA court would likely have told the neocons that eves-dropping on the electronic communications of two-thirds of America was a FISHING expedition. And that is ILLEGAL! That possible response from the FISA court is likely why the neocons never asked the FISA court’s permission to do what they did.
And now it seems like the neocons, since 1980, have filled a Pandora’s box full of activities that must never ever see the “light of day”.
It will likely take a team of historians and archaeologists to dig up America’s neocon history. That history will range from selling cocaine to street gangs in minority neighborhoods of Los Angeles to brutal treatment of detainees connected to terrorism.
It is extremely difficult to believe that America will ever “thank Bush for what he has done”. Some of what Mr. Bush has done ought to interest the World Court. Many years passed but a Peruvian leader was asked to appear in world court. It is my understanding that some things done to humanity have no statute of limitations.
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