Speaking at Annapolis Naval Base, Bush once again delivered a 'stump' speech filled with the empty platitudes that have been his stock in trade since being appointed to the presidency by the Supreme Court in 2000.
Bush urged "all American's to read" the "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" posted on the White House web site.
Just a brief browsing of this document shows how far removed the Bush regime is from the ability to come clean with the American people and the world.
Laying out what they claim as, what is for most Americans, the most important element, "Victory in Iraq Defined" the Bush regime contradicts itself and known facts within the first three pages.
Claiming that victory can be defined in stages, they set out the following criteria:
- Short term, Iraq is making steady progress in fighting terrorists, meeting political milestones, building democratic institutions, and standing up security forces.
- Medium term, Iraq is in the lead defeating terrorists and providing its own security, with a fully constitutional government in place, and on its way to achieving its economic potential.
- Longer term, Iraq is peaceful, united, stable, and secure, well integrated into the international community, and a full partner in the global war on terrorism.
They also claim that;
"Our strategy is working: Much has been accomplished in Iraq, including the removal of Saddam’s tyranny, negotiation of an interim constitution, restoration of full sovereignty, holding of free national elections, formation of an elected government, drafting of a permanent constitution, ratification of that constitution, introduction of a sound currency, gradual restoration of neglected infrastructure, the ongoing training and equipping of Iraqi security forces, and the increasing capability of those forces to take on the terrorists and secure their nation."
Even given the fact that no-one, the military, Rumsfeld, Cheney or Bush can get their story straight on exactly how many troops have been trained to date 700 or 7,000, the article below citing awful human rights abuses within the "elected government" that has been created under this strategy to date, belies all of this shameful attempt to polish the turd.
Shame on you, and shame on us to let this stand.
I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make half the world fools and half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world.
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