BU** SH**

Has George Orwell been cloned and landed a job on President Bush’s writing staff? Never have I witnessed such a brilliant application of doublethink since I had first read about it in Orwell’s novel “1984”. The reasons for the invasion of Iraq have changed twice since President Bush first pontificated over his desire for regime change in that Middle Eastern country. He and his aids have concocted three completely different rationales for the invasion and yet have persuaded a majority of Americans that he has had only one all along.

He first convinced us (emphasis on “con”) that Saddam Hussein held a vast stronghold of weapons of mass destruction and that he was in a position, even though U.S. and U.K. jets were continuously patrolling the skies of Iraq, to strike Europe and the United States. Many of us could see right through that line of crap but Bush convinced enough Americans to get the Congress to vote him war powers.

It became quite obvious that Hussain’s WMDs did not exist after our military had routed the Iraqi army and had taken over, if not secured, Iraq. However, by that time, the Bush administration had already found cover and stated that the motivation for the invasion had been to oust Hussein, basically, because he was a bad guy. Well, I guess you couldn’t argue with that. Hussein was no saint but was that a reason for a preemptive invasion? The American people didn’t think so and Bush’s popularity went into a slump.

Then something very fortunate for the doublethink people happened; an Iraqi resistance formed and not only was the resistance made up of exBathists but also imported Muslim fundamentalist from neighboring countries. The doublethink writers got their fingers a-clickin’ and invented a third reason for the invasion. It was such a stroke of Orwellian genius that they expanded the concept into something they named the “Bush Doctrine”. Bush’s doublethinkers set out to explain to doubting Americans that this doctrine was the fundamental philosophy for the Iraq War. It replaced any other rational the American people may have thought they heard.

The “Bush Doctrine” essentially states that the way to rid the world of terrorism is to reform undemocratic governments into democracies, by force if necessary. A democracy could never spawn a terror movement because everyone would be too busy being free. Anyone who thinks about that for more than fifteen seconds can see that it was one of the biggest, warmest, steamiest pile of “Bush” shit ever conceived. Unfortunately a majority of Americans bought it, hook, line and sinker.

A cursory romp through history can find many cases of terrorism in the most democratic of nations. In fact, an overwhelming number of terrorist actions and groups originated and practiced their nasty craft in democratic countries. The connection between terrorism and democracy is so tenable that one could say that democracies, not repressive regimes, are breeding grounds for terrorism.

Let’s look at some recent history. The Irish Republican Army used terror tactics for decades until they reached a tentative peace accord with Great Britain. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, an ally of the USA and one of the world's premiere democracies. ETA is a well-known separatist group from the Basque region of Spain. Spain has been a democracy since 1977, after the death of Franco, and yet this organized terrorist group still conducts its vile business in this freedom loving culture. If the Bush Doctrine had any credibility, how could the IRA and ETA have ever existed?

Across the pond in the United States, born and bred small “d” democrats, Timothy McVey and his co-conspirators, perpetrated the second worst terror bombing in U.S. history. An organized radical group in the 1960’s, who called themselves the Weather Underground, used terror tactics in an attempt to over through the U.S. government. They bombed government and corporate facilities and went on property destroying rampages. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, a loose association of democracy-loving Christian terrorists bombed abortion clinics across the country. Their tactics only changed due to the precipitous right wing turn Americans’ political leanings took during the last twenty years. Don’t think for a moment they won’t go back to their old ways if they believe they can’t overturn Roe v. Wade by working within the system.

A look further back into US history will find the Granddaddy of terrorist groups, the Klu Klux Klan. These democrats infamously wore long white robes and covered their faces with masks as they planted burning crosses on African Americans’ front yards. They kidnapped fathers and sons and sometimes mothers and daughters from their homes then tortured and killed them by slow hangings. They would even set their victims on fire as they struggled against the rope. Their organization extended into the local politico and even into the US Congress. The KKK is a fine example of a democratic state sponsored terrorist organization.

The same can be said about the institution of American slavery. From the beginnings of America’s great democracy, slavery was an accepted means of retaining a labor force. Privately funded slavers scoured the African coast and performed raids on villages, terrorizing and kidnapping its inhabitants, all condoned and supported by a democratic government.

U.S. governmental institutions also had no regard for the immorality of terrorism. In the post civil war years, the U.S. military used terror and genocide to clear the west of the native population to make room for Manifest Destiny. Native Americans were slaughtered by the thousands. Their villages were raided and their women raped until those that survived were rounded up and settled into poorly funded reservations, where many still live to this day.

The Bush Doctrine is a simplistic principle that is built on the most obvious of lies. Democracy will not end terrorism. Likely, because of its freedoms of speech, movement and assembly, a democracy will facilitate terror tactics by those who are immoral enough to think it is a viable method for getting their way. This so called doctrine was born out of an attempt to justify the Iraq War and not the other way around. It’s too bad that a majority of the American people can’t or won’t think deeper than the bullshit being piled on top of them.

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