Volume III. No. 05
 09-15-04
 The High Cost Of George Bush's Fatal Attraction 
 To Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2004
 

 September 11th, 2004 was a quiet peacful day, only highlighting the difficulty 
 that Muslim fundamentalist terrorists face in carrying out their vicious, immoral, 
 and cowardly acts. Three years have passed already, and despite the desperate 
 saber-rattling of Osama's second in command, Al Qaeda has so far been unable 
 to accomplish anything else on American soil.

 Lest the present administration get carried away congratulating themselves, 
 there is much that G.W. has to answer for. Whether Democrat or Republican,
 1000 dead American soldiers in Iraq - in a war that the entire world now knows
 was undertaken under false pretenses - is significant. And what exactly did 
 these conscripts die for? There weren't any WMD's to find. And the link 
 between the deposed Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda existed only in the bad 
 intelligence coming out of the CIA. 1000 American men and women have so 
 far died in G.W's vanity war so that he can state emphatically that he is a tough 
 guy. A "War President" unafraid to strike back at terrorists. Except the 
 terrorists were all in Afghanistan, not Iraq. And the militant insurgents that 
 are disrupting Iraq society today, are only on Iraqi soil because this misguided 
 "War President" created the very conditions under which they now thrive.

 A car bombing by the side of the road. A soldier felled by a sniper's bullet under
 the blazing afternoon sun. Aid workers kidnapped. Indigent imported restaurant 
 kitchen helpers slaughtered in vivid color on videotape. All the unfortunate
 consequences of a war that was undertaken to ensure that freedom-starved 
 Iraqis can one day worship their God in peace. All the better for the next despot 
 who will be able to summarily cancel elections and take up exactly where the 
 hated  Saddam Hussein left off. -- Oh, but perhaps by that time, some other 
 American president will have cleaned up George Bush's mess.

 And the 1000 dead will be long buried and forgotten.

 So much is going on in the world today that gets scant attention from this 
 administration. But, it is not necessary to look hard to find examples of how 
 tenuous is the grip of democracy when people do not realize how precious 
 are their new found freedoms. American ally Vladimir Putin is step-by-step 
 restructuring the Russian government so that the citizens across the former
 Soviet Union will have less influence in the decisions that will determine 
 their lives, and their livelihood. 

 [ yet another world leader using the "fight against global terrorism" excuse to 
 broaden the authority of his office, and to deflect criticism from political 
 decisions that would undergo much greater scrutiny in more peaceful times... ]

 Putin apparently is more impressed by the economic success of the orderly 
 communist dictatorship to the south, than he is with any Western ideas of 
 a free and open government. The hope of Russia joining Europe in "spirit" 
 if not in reality is but an idealistic dream. Putin is old KGB to the core. He has 
 no love of freedom or liberty. The concepts are alien to him.

 The sly goings-on in Moscow represent a far greater threat to world security 
 than anything in Saddam Hussein's non-existent WMD laboratories. A return 
 to the mindless conflicts of the Cold War years is a disturbing thought.

 If only our "War President" were paying attention.
 

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