Selected Editorials - The Sikh Bulletin
Selected Editorials - The Sikh Bulletin
Selected Editorials - The Sikh Bulletin
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<strong>The</strong>re is no doubt in any reasonable mind that this administration’s<br />
whole argument to go to war in Iraq was based on falsehood garnished<br />
with manipulated intelligence; and when Colin Powell was making a<br />
case before the Security Council to go to war against Iraq he was lying<br />
and he knew he was lying. That is why he had CIA Chief George<br />
Tenet, who along with Cheney was a willing accomplice in this crime<br />
of manipulating intelligence to attack a UN member nation without UN<br />
authorization, sit behind him. After Tenet was done doing his dirty<br />
work Bush thanked him by awarding him a civilian medal of service.<br />
All those Congressmen and Senators from both parties, who voted for<br />
this war, ought to have resigned. Now they are equally guilty. <strong>The</strong>re are<br />
reports in the press that Bush administration is seriously planning air<br />
strike against Iran’s nuclear power facilities and its encouragement to Israel to go after Hezbollah was a<br />
trial run geared towards that goal. Hezbollah survived and perhaps so did the long range rockets that<br />
could reach Tel Aviv, to be unleashed only if and when US tax payer financed bombs fall on Tehran. Iraq<br />
war has already benefited Iran beyond their wildest dreams; turned United States into an international<br />
pariah; and an attack will further improve Iran’s position in the Middle East and the world. Colin Powell<br />
has finally mustered some moral courage and in a letter to Sen. John McCain who has teamed up with<br />
Senators John Warner and Lindsey Graham, all Republicans, in opposing Bush’s attempt to change the<br />
Geneva Convention Title III, come out with the statement that “the world is beginning to doubt the<br />
moral basis of our fight against terrorism”, leading to the following frown and statement from<br />
Bush:<br />
“It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United<br />
States of America and the action of Islamic extremists," President Bush says at Friday’s (Sept. 15, 2006)<br />
news conference.<br />
Is it really Ask those on the receiving end of the US behavior.<br />
At the United Nations he talked down to the people of Iran and Syria. He lectured the Iranians about their<br />
government squandering their resources on terrorists and implied that they are not a democracy. Having<br />
squandered hundreds of billions of this country’s dollars in throwing his weight around in Afghanistan,<br />
Iraq, Lebanon and itching to do the same in Iran it is a case of a pot calling kettle black. Iran is not a<br />
democracy but Israel is where non-Jews are second class citizens<br />
Population make up in USA is rapidly changing. Without blind US support Israel is nothing. If Israel<br />
continues on this course of arrogance there is no doubt in this writer’s mind that a day will come, may be<br />
in not too distant future, when history will repeat itself. If Israeli leaders are wise they would beg the Arab<br />
countries to once again offer to recognize it in exchange for withdrawing from the occupied Arab lands,<br />
an offer it had arrogantly refused only a few years ago. Solution is political not military. Otherwise, in the<br />
next round the corrupt states and lap dogs of USA, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt won’t be there to<br />
condemn Hezbollah or its successor, just as Hezbollah wasn’t there when Sharon the butcher authorized<br />
and watched the massacre of Palestinian women and children in Beirut by the Lebanese Christians. Israel<br />
fully expected for Christians to rise against Hezbollah and greet them as liberators just as Bush crowd<br />
expected to be greeted as liberators in Iraq; neither transpired.<br />
Bush crowd lives in a world of make believe, totally divorced from reality: ‘Iraqis will greet them as<br />
liberators’, not as invaders and occupiers; rush to announce ‘Mission Accomplished’ when in reality the<br />
troubles were just starting; ‘Situation in Iraq is improving’ when the Iraqis say they are in a civil war;<br />
‘Hezbollah has lost’ when not only the rest of the world, Tony Blair excluded, but also even the Israelis<br />
hold the opposite view. Some leaders create great nations while others bring them into decline. Bush<br />
Blair duo is doing it to USA and UK.<br />
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