Why Criticize the President? By Christina Johnstone

Why criticize the president, because all polls (AKA: voice of the American people) indicate that on the Iraq war and Mr. Bush’s handling of this preemptive war is utmost on our collective mind, the debate should and will continue. In other words, to quote the President “Bring it on.” Of course Bush lied. He lied about WMD’s, using Colin Powell to point out cartoonish, false locations of WMD labs in Iraq. He lied when he said that the International Atomic Energy Commission report concluded that Iraq was just a few months away from developing a nuclear weapon. In reality, no such report existed. He not only lied about Iraq obtaining yellow cake from Niger, he unleashed the Republican slime machine, Cheney, Rove, Novak, Limbaugh, Colter and all of Fox News, to squash the truth. He lied to Congress and even used the press to lie to the American people, remember Armstrong Williams and other “journalists” on the Administration’s payroll? He had full national support when he went in to Afghanistan to root out the Taliban. Then, much to everyone’s amazement he simply forgot about his promise to get Osama Bin Ladin. He fires or retires anyone that disagrees with him and then lies and says he listens to the generals. He lied when he sent Rumsfield out to say that the war would last “6 day, 6 weeks, I doubt 6 months.” and sent Cheney out to say that we would be greeted as liberators, and Wolfowitz went out to say this awful war would pay for itself. If he did not agree with these lies, why did he not disagree with these false statements as soon as they were uttered? Oh, and we must not forget Condoleezza Rice’s famous smoking gun/mushroom cloud remark that was repeated by Bush himself. This Administration’s methods of governance are threats, fear, lies and refusal to be accountable for any mistake. They are incompetent and are unfit to govern. George W. Bush’s lies began in his first campaign. He claimed to be a “uniter not a divider” and then uses the divisions in our country as political tools. He also said he was a “compassionate conservative” he is neither.