by James Glaser
March 15, 2004

At one time I thought George Bush and his administration was trying to make America a better place for all of us and that his way of doing it was just different than the way I thought it should be done.

Now I look at what President Bush and his people do and I have to wonder if they are actually trying to destroy our country and make us a pariah to the rest of the world. Now whenever the President or one of his people says something, I have to ask myself if I believe it or not.

It isn't one thing that got me thinking this way, but the fact that almost every week there is another false hood exposed or a very bad policy decision made by the Executive Branch of our government.

It started all the way back with 9/11 when the President sat there reading to those grade school kids as terrorists continued to attack us. He then went into a day of hiding and only came out when the "all clear' was given.

Giving a free plane ride home for every rich Arab in America didn't make any sense to me either. No other plane could fly in the United States except for the one George sent for his Saudi friends, so they could get out of the country.

We gave Osama bin Laden every warning a person could want before we attacked Afghanistan. Warning after warning, threat after threat, allowed Osama to get his family away and disperse his whole organization through out the world. Even though bin Laden has no country, George Bush decided to treat him as if he did, instead of branding him as a criminal, we went to War with him.

George Bush made Osama bin Laden an international hero for much of the world and Osama made America look foolish and he still does. He can still get on television when ever he wants to and his brand of murder has been carried out world wide by people that think they are in a War, not a criminal conspiracy. They think that because the President of the United States made it a War on Terrorism. War has a note of honor and George Bush has given this "honor" to these murderers.

The whole world watched as George Bush and the American military gave bin Laden plenty of time to get away in Afghanistan and they then saw us kill thousands of poor innocent people in that country. The world watched as we dropped food packets the same color as our cluster bombs. People the world over saw pictures of little starving Afghan children that were killed or maimed, when the thought a dud cluster bomb was a food packet. People hear report after report of children getting killed in George Bush's first war and to this day they are still seeing reports of American mistakes in Afghanistan that kill children ten to twelve at a time.

Then the world along with the American people watched as Bush abandoned the War in Afghanistan, the search for Osama bin Laden, and launched the might of the American military on to another pitiful third world country, Iraq.

Bush used every thing he could think of, every excuse, every lie, and every distortion to get the world to go along with him and in the end he only got three countries, Great Britain, Australia, and Spain. Later on with money and coercion, he had another set of countries go along with him and he called them the "coalition of the willing." They still number less than 10% of the world's nations.

We all know about the lying of Weapons of Mass Destruction and the hoax about Saddam Hussein's ties to al Qaeda. We have all suffered with the over 560 American families that lost loved ones in Iraq and the thousands more that have had a family member wounded. Some of us even think about the thousands and thousands of innocent Iraqi children that have been killed or maimed.

It isn't just the United States that is watching what George Bush is doing; the whole world wonders where all of this killing will take us. People the world over know that George Bush feels that America has the right to kill any women or children, the aged, or the infirmed if we are going after terrorists. They know that the Unites States believes that our right for revenge is greater that any innocent persons right to life.

Since the terrorists attack on the United States, American military forces have killed an estimated 15-20 thousand innocent people and have wounded tens of thousands more in Iraq and Afghanistan. The whole world wonders if their country might be next.

Just recently the world has watched as George Bush and the American government is accused of overthrowing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti. Before the Bush administration a simple denial by Washington would have sufficed, but now nobody believes any more and not only other nations, but American politicians from both parties are asking if we did that.

They ask this because somebody gave American military arms to those overthrowing the Haitian President and he was flown out of the country on an American plane guarded by US Marines. They also read about how Washington has funded opposition forces in Venezuela, where Bush is trying to get rid of the democratically elected President, Hugo Chavez.

Just because the American media decides not to cover these things, do not think the rest of the world is in the dark too. They watch the United States and George Bush out of fear. America is the world's only super power and we have our troops in well over a hundred and twenty five countries.

The rest of the world watches as Bush keeps trotting out the pictures of the World Trade Center, hoping to get votes and they know he hires actors to play roles in his election commercials because the real people would find his tactics distasteful.

American citizens watch as their President does everything he can to block investigations into the cause of the September 11th terrorist attacks and the way intelligence was used to get the American Congress to go along with Bush's second war, in Iraq.

Now we see that it isn't just foreign policy that George Bush plays "games" with, but also domestic policy. It was reported this weekend that a government Medicare Cost Analyst was ordered to provide false figures on the cost of the new Prescription Drug Bill to Congress or he would be fired.

The only reason that people would believe something like this is that Bush and his administration has lied and distorted the truth so much that any wrong doing could now be believed.

There are now tens of millions of Americans that no longer trust our President nor his administration and I am one of them. I would give this some serious debate if I felt that I was somehow a member of some small faction of conspiracy theorists or an out and out Bush hater, but I am not.

For a long time now I have written about one Bush foul up after another and I used to think the guy was trying to do things the way he thought was best for all of us. I really believed that George Bush thought giving tax cuts to the richest people in America would help everyone. I didn't believe it, but I thought George did. I thought because George Bush had never been to war, he had no idea of what he was unleashing when he sent the Army and the Marines to attack a pitiful country like Afghanistan. A country with no Army, Air Force, Navy, almost nothing at all to fight us with, but he did it again when we attacked Iraq.

We knew with the first Gulf War that Iraq had nothing militarily and after a decade of our embargo, they had even less. No nation, not even Russia can stand against the American Military. Washington know this, the rest of the world knows this, but the American people still want to keep pouring money into our killing machine. Please don't even think of calling our military a "defense."

To this day we still can not defend our own country. Tens of thousands illegal aliens come to our country each and every week. George Bush does nothing about this and even encourages more people to come by saying that he will make them legal.

George Bush is really hurting our country. I don't know why he is doing this, but he is. Maybe being the most powerful man in the history of the world was too much for him and he has decided to run amuck. The whole world is watching him do it.