by Lynda Kohn

Created on: December 08, 2010   Last Updated: December 09, 2010

Bush Villain

With apologies to Robert Browning's poem "How much do I love thee.  Let me count the ways." How much did I hate the W. Bush administration.  Let me count the ways. They are three to be exact and they are as follows: Iraq war,  Draconian US budget cuts to services to the most vulnerable and I consider the worst, the most important and disastrous, the elimination of judicial and other rights.

 
Specifically The act of declaring war on a nation irrelevant to 911, Bin Ladin was the height of irriseponsible recklessness.  It literally cost tens of thousands of innocent US lives.  Plus it cut short countless Iraqi lives.  There was the horrific behaviors of some military people at Abu Ghraib prison.  Plus indirectly it caused the beheadings of innocent victims. If there wasn't a war in Iraq I doubt there would be anybody beheaded.  Lastly the funding going into this never justified, totally uncalled for war could have gone to much needed social services.  Instead the money was squandered on fighting that was a total waste of funding and time.  
 
Consider this concerning Bush's Iraq war declared October 2001.  There was never any evidence connecting Osama Bin Ladin and Saddam Hussein nor were there found any uranium mines.  Neither was there any proof Hussein or any Iraqi was involved in 9/11/01.  British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) declared the Bush Iraq war totally unjustified.  This statement was in BBC Middle East statement April 15, 2003.  Sir Joseph Rotblatt UK Nuclear scientist, receiver of the Nobel Peace Prize said, "Saddam did possess the right to rule his nation as he pleased." The scientist basically said it was quite hypocritical of Bush to criticize Iraq with its nuclear weapons when the US has them

On Oct 19, 2006 a former Homeland Security Dept. official claimed Bush exaggerated Hussein's threat to the US.  Clark Kent Irvin was an assistant secretary of state. He was deputy attorney general for Bush when he was Texas governor.  Irvin became quite concerned when his former employer invaded Iraq.  He immediately perceived the attack as, perhaps inadvertently, as a terrific opportunity for Bin Ladin to bide his time to regroup toward the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.   The war in Iraq to Irvin was totally unnecessary and made us less safe.  It was diverting us from who

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