Jan 21 2009
George W. Bush-A Tyrant?
One definition that Webster has for the word tyrant is ”one resembling an oppressive ruler in the harsh use of authority or power.” That would be Saddam Hussein, not George W. Bush. One has to look no further than his total assistance to the transition to power of President Obama to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mr. Bush is no tyrant, not even on the radar screen of truth. Tyrants never give up power willingly. EVER. Within the last week, even his policy concerning Guantanamo has now been affirmed as within reason and not illegal in thwarting terrorists by the international body that assesses such things. Of course, that doesn’t make the front page of the newspapers across the country, as it should, because Bush hating is in vogue and apparently politically correct.
A roadside bomb was found sometime after the overthrow of Saddam. It was wired to a howitzer shell laced with poisonous gas. Do people really believe that it was the only one made by Hussein? Just one, right, and even if it were the last one made at the time, do you really believe that no more would have been made if he were still in power? In late 2007, the last remnants of his nuclear weapons research facilities were dismantled, primitive as they may have been, can you really deny that with time and his money he would have had nuclear weapons? Feel free to do so, however, if you do I have some swamp property I’d like to sell you at prime real estate prices.
We are free to believe whatever we want, as frustrating as that might be sometimes to the nonbelievers, but calling President Bush a tyrant doesn’t pass the litmus test of truth and never will.
We didn’t go in there because of chemicals weapons. We went in because of a “nucular threat,” the “smoking gun that comes in the form of a mushroom cloud.” Well at least that was the reason until it became apparent they didn’t have any. Then it became WMD’s including chemical and biological weapons. Then when we stopped finding those it was for liberty and freedom…
Bush a tyrant? Yeah probably not the right word. A liar? Undoubtedly and well documented.
He’s no tyrant, just a really bad president. But that fits in with his history as a really bad student, a really bad reservist, a really bad oilman, a really bad baseball team owner and really bad governor. But I hear he’s a real nice guy. And I’ll give him credit for being a real class act during the transition. I assume Dick Cheney was nowhere to be seen during the whole process.