Bush's Tarnished Legacy: History Repeating Itself 
The Republicans must acknowledge what the entire world knows. The American public was tragically misled by the tainted media blitz. We were told with Bush's dramatic State of the Union propaganda pitch that the United States was under threat from "weapons of mass destruction." Saddam was threatening us and Condoleezza Rice was conjuring up the grave tragedy of a "giant mushroom cloud" enveloping America.
If a child in school tells a lie, some teachers insist that the child write the truth a hundred times on a blackboard to impress upon the child as well as the rest of the class the importance of telling the truth.
Not once has George Bush or the misleading Bush Administration acknowledged the terrible consequences of blatant misrepresentations followed by a bloody trail. This trail now consists of 22,000 U.S. service personnel injured along with the deaths of 3,014 U.S. service personnel.
A blunt message should be issued to those aforementioned culpable individuals: Try washing the blood off of your hands for the tragic injustice you perpetrated.
It has been estimated by a Johns Hopkins University study that 650,000 Iraqis have died since Donald Rumsfeld's "shock and awe" campaign began. That is a lot of blood to wash off of your hands, isn't it?
Name one Administration in U.S. history that bungled foreign policy as bad as Bush's team of aggressive neocons. Bush switched gears once the truth about the false reasons for invading Iraq was revealed.
"We are bringing freedom and democracy to the entire Middle East," he self-righteously declared.
Instead Bush has succeeded in bringing everlasting shame to the name of the role he accepted - the U.S. presidency.
The haughtily self-righteous "moral Republicans" who were hell bent to throw Bill Clinton out of office for lying about extra-marital sex encounters revealed what total hypocrites they were when they failed to impeach George Bush for committing what many international legal scholars call war crimes, i.e. crimes against humanity.
Instead of a trial for Saddam Hussein at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, where Saddam Hussein's French lawyer sought to put individuals like Donald Rumsfeld on the stand to determine U.S. culpability in the Iraqi dictator's activities against his citizens, the basis for which he was being prosecuted, we quickly learned that the Bush Administration had other ideas.
The neocons could never afford to allow the entire world to see the trail that led to death and destruction that culminated with blood on their hands.
Now Bush is set to deliver his State of the Union Address. It holds the same significance and contains the same degree of truth as his infamous words delivered on that Naval carrier off the coast of San Diego of "Mission Accomplished."
U.S. News and World Report in its current issue reported the following:
"Nicholas Burns, the Under Secretary of State for political affairs, said in an interview last week (in referring to Iran), `They have to understand there are consequences for their actions.'"
Perhaps Mr. Burns should also inform George Bush, "By sending 22,000 more U.S. service personnel into the heat of Iraq's Civil War, he will discover that there are consequences for his actions."
KEYWORDS: George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, False Claims of Weapons of Mass Destruction
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