As Evil As He Is,
George Bush Comes Across As A Goofball
by James Glaser
October 9, 2007

That wasn't a joke title to this column. You watch George Bush give a talk anyplace, the UN, on the campaign stump, or one of his few speeches to the nation, and the guy comes across as some sort of a goofball. Bush certainly is not presidential. He has that goofy smile, and he constantly twists words around, so that they mean almost nothing at all.

Some times George will string a couple of sentences together though, like this example:

No people, no matter where they reside, should have to live in fear of their own government. Nowhere should the midnight knock foreshadow a nightmare of state-commissioned crime. The suffering of torture victims must end, and the United States calls on all governments to assume this great mission.

My guess is that these words were written for the president by some speech writer. They come from a statement President George Bush presented on June 26, 2003. The occasion was the "United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture."

Of course we now know that troops under the command of George Bush were torturing Iraqis while he was giving his speech about how bad torture is.

This from Wikipedia:

Beginning in 2004, accounts of abuse, rape, homcide, and torture of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (also known as Baghdad Correctional Facility) came to public attention. The acts were committed by some personnel of the 372nd Military Police Company of the United States, the CIA and possibly additional American governmental agencies.

As revealed by the 2004 Taguba Report a criminal investigation by the US Army Criminal Investigation Command had already been underway since May 2003 where four soldiers from the 320th MP Battalion had been formally charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) with detainee abuse. In April 2004 reports of the abuse, as well as graphic pictures showing American military personnel in the act of abusing prisoners, came to public attention, when a 60 Minutes II news report (April 28) and an article by Seymour M. Hersh in The New Yorker magazine (posted online on April 30 and published days later in the May 10 issue) reported the story.

At the same time our troops were torturing Iraqi civilians, other American troops were torturing and killing Afghans at American bases in Afghanistan. Of course we all know about the torture going on at our prison in Cuba. Also we now know about the secret CIA prisons we have in Europe. Those would be the prisons we take people to that we have kidnapped all over the world. I believe that 7 CIA officers are under indictment in Italy for taking someone right out of that country and sending them to one of our secret prisons.

It isn't just George Bush, Bill Clinton didn't have his own secret torture prisons like George Bush has, but Bill would have people sent to Middle East countries like Egypt, where they would torture people for us. I guess George was just cutting out the middle man.

If you go back and read George's words again, that first sentence really jumps out at you. "No people, no matter where they reside, should have to live in fear of their own government." I have to admit, before George Bush became President, I never really feared my government. I had faith in our Rule of Law, and what was left of our Constitution, but today all bets are off.

If he wants to, George Bush can, and has taken American citizens, put them in solitary confinement for years, with no criminal charges against them, and those are only the ones we have heard about. There is no telling what George bush has had done to American citizens in secret. Right today, members of Congress can't even get a look at the paper work that the White House says gives them the right to torture. The White House won't even define what torture is, and they repeat over and over again, "America does not torture."

So, George Bush continues to use his goofy persona as a screen to hide his evil ways. The man repeatedly lies to the American people, and I think this next quote will tell you why.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Joseph Goebbels
German Minister of Propaganda 1933-1945

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