I’d write something indepth about tonight’s State of the Union address but it’s really rather pointless.
All the rhetoric and ninth grade vocabulary in the world doesn’t change the fact that Iraq was illegally invaded, that the United States did so in direct contravention of the UN Charter, that it had nothing to do with 9/11, did not possess WMD’s, and was not home to foreign extremists prior to the 2003 invasion. Nothing Mr. Bush said this evening alters numerous facts, paramount among them that his administration deceived the American people and that that deception has cost the lives of more than 3,000 US service men and women – the very same that he so gallantly praised to standing ovations this evening.
To protect America against evil and deliver it democracy (at the end of a gun), countless Iraqis have been made to pay the price for something they had nothing to do with (and even their deaths have been trivialized by making the war in Iraq sound like some transitional disaster aimed at calling out the likes of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, et all). I’m sorry, this might sound terrible of me, but 3,000 American lives lost on September 11th are not worth the lives of 10,000 Iraqis, let alone 100,000 of them. What sort of ignorance breeds such arrogance? What sort of a people can applaud a man that would, were he not the leader of one of the world’s foremost powers, be immediately labeled a war criminal? What sort of people can applaud a man whose administration has decimated the global respectability of their nation, rendering it thought of as the largest threat to world security by a majority of the planet’s population?
Perhaps the very same people that can allow victims of the worst natural disaster in US history to be treated like second class citizens more than a year and a half after the fact.
In short, tonight’s address was the oversimplification of bullshit after it had been hit by a car and woken up in hospital with amnesia.
Updated: That was quick…
“A US Senate committee has rejected President Bush’s plan to send extra troops to Iraq, passing the measure to the full Senate for a vote next week.”
I wonder how they plan to do that considering that the deployment has already started?