A Personal Betrayal
Posted by
Kevin
The “good man” George Bush just drove a knife into the back of a women who trusted him and who he used for his own political benefit:
The White House propaganda maestros used an Iraqi women’s rights activist as a living prop at Shrub’s state of the union address earlier this year, whipping wing nut war hawks and media dingdongs alike into a frenzy of teary-eyed patriotism. They also arranged for her to stand immediately in front of the mother of a Marine killed in action in Iraq — setting the scene for a “spontaneous” hug that reduced a national television audience to quivering lumps of sentimental jello and left Joe Klein spitting phlegm-coated bile at the Democratic Party.
Now, that very same activist is telling the world the Americans just sold her, and her Iraqi sisters, down the river to a bunch of medieval mullahs with Made-in-Tehran labels on the insides of their turbins.
Such a good, Christian man is our boy George. I am sure he just felt terrible that he had to destroy this women’s dreams and her country. He probably sighed with regret as he told our ambassador in Iraq to back the theocrats if thats what it took to get the constitution by the deadline. He might have even teared up a little, before telling the press to “watch this drive.” No one could expect less from such a decent man as our boy George.
Given your repeatedly stated desire that the US withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible, I’m not exactly sure what you think the Bush administration should have done in this case?
It is a betrayal, mind you, but it’s the first of many that’s going to be required for the US to cut and run.
Comment 8/25/2005
The Republicans Lost Iraq
Comment 8/25/2005
Stormy
To start with, they could not have had their ambassdor side with the theocrats os that an arbitrary deadline could have been met. Which it wasn’t anyway.
Comment 8/25/2005
When did Iraq belong to the U.S. so we could “lose” it?
Comment 8/26/2005