Mary Mostert
Should Americans feel guilty or rejoice for freeing the Iraqi people?
By Mary Mostert
For weeks now the American media and the Democrats running for President have deluged the American people with commentary about whether or not President Bush “lied” about the threat Saddam Hussein posed. Some of it has gotten downright funny.
On June 6, 2003, in a column entitled “Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?” John Dean, the Nixon aide whose testimony brought down a sitting president and plunged America into an era of political chaos, declared: “As I remarked in an earlier column, this Administration may be due for a scandal.” Earlier he had suggested the “Bush connection” with Enron as a “scandal” possibility.
Then, last Friday Dean wrote “If President Bush truly has nothing to hide, he should appoint a special prosecutor” to investigate “Bush's claims to the Congress, and nation, about Saddam Hussein's WMD threat.”
Due for a scandal? This sounds like Dean has some sort of a plan to attempt to discredit another Republican President by cooking up a “scandal.” Of course, the notion to get rid of Bush via means other than a vote of the people has dominated Democrat thought since the Electoral College announced that George W. Bush was the next president. When that particular bit of scandal mongering failed, the next major effort to create a scandal to bring down George W. Bush was Enron.
In a month’s time John Dean went from advocating the impeachment of the president over 16 words in his State of the Union Address in which he quoted British Intelligence, to advocating that President Bush in effect impeach himself by appointing a special prosecutor to investigate himself to determine if what he said was a lie. Do the Democrats really believe the American people are that stupid? Actually, I think they do.
On February 6, 2002, a few months after 9/11, Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-South Carolina, called for a special counsel to investigate possible “contacts and links between Enron executives and the Bush administration.”
Sadly for the Democrats, on the same day, February 6, 2002, I, and later others, brought up the role played by the Clinton White House in 1997 in the Enron debacle. For example, according to Indian news sources, India’s government in New Delhi, which had opposed Enron’s plan to build the Dabhol power plant in India, gave reluctant final approval for the Enron Corporation's $ 3 billion venture in India, four days after Enron had given the Democratic National Committee $ 100,000 for an encouraging word to the India government from Bill Clinton.
On February 21, 2002, the Washington Times reminded readers: “that the Clinton administration coughed up more than $1 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans to Enron Corp. just when the energy giant was kicking in almost $2 million for Democrat causes.” If Enron hadn’t lost that $3 billion on the Dabhol power plant, that never opened, they probably would not have gone bankrupt.
As 2004 approaches, the Democrats are in a panic for some way to get George W. Bush out of the White House. They have launched a full scale propaganda campaign to convince the American people that George W. Bush did a TERRIBLE thing by ousting Saddam Hussein who, poor soul, was unjustly accused of trying to buy Uranium in Africa. Let’s just forget that he’d previously bought something like 1000 tons of Uranium from Africa.
Then, just when I think the propaganda war has overwhelmed the American people, I read a story that puts the war in Iraq back into perspective. The first Iraqi woman of the many who suffered under Saddam Hussein had the courage to come forward and testify this week to help the Americans find those who repeatedly raped and tortured her and murdered her husband. Jumana Michael Hanna, a 41- year-old Assyrian Christian and woman poured over hundreds of pictures of Iraqi men on a computer as she tearfully pointed out those who were part of her horror story.
Or, some helpful reader forwards a first-person e-mail report from an American who has the facts and is willing to share them. It isn’t what the American people are being told by the media. Mark, a member of the US Special Ops, wrote a sometimes painfully blunt letter that was posted on Free Republic that every American should read, especially those who are being swayed by Democrats who think we should have either not gone to war in Iraq, or perhaps lost the war so they can get Democrats elected next year. According to Special Op Mark, “It isn't any worse than expected; things are getting better each day, and the morale of the troops is A-1, except for the normal bitching and griping.” So much for the media reports. He went on:
© Mary Mostert
For weeks now the American media and the Democrats running for President have deluged the American people with commentary about whether or not President Bush “lied” about the threat Saddam Hussein posed. Some of it has gotten downright funny.
On June 6, 2003, in a column entitled “Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?” John Dean, the Nixon aide whose testimony brought down a sitting president and plunged America into an era of political chaos, declared: “As I remarked in an earlier column, this Administration may be due for a scandal.” Earlier he had suggested the “Bush connection” with Enron as a “scandal” possibility.
Then, last Friday Dean wrote “If President Bush truly has nothing to hide, he should appoint a special prosecutor” to investigate “Bush's claims to the Congress, and nation, about Saddam Hussein's WMD threat.”
Due for a scandal? This sounds like Dean has some sort of a plan to attempt to discredit another Republican President by cooking up a “scandal.” Of course, the notion to get rid of Bush via means other than a vote of the people has dominated Democrat thought since the Electoral College announced that George W. Bush was the next president. When that particular bit of scandal mongering failed, the next major effort to create a scandal to bring down George W. Bush was Enron.
In a month’s time John Dean went from advocating the impeachment of the president over 16 words in his State of the Union Address in which he quoted British Intelligence, to advocating that President Bush in effect impeach himself by appointing a special prosecutor to investigate himself to determine if what he said was a lie. Do the Democrats really believe the American people are that stupid? Actually, I think they do.
On February 6, 2002, a few months after 9/11, Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-South Carolina, called for a special counsel to investigate possible “contacts and links between Enron executives and the Bush administration.”
Sadly for the Democrats, on the same day, February 6, 2002, I, and later others, brought up the role played by the Clinton White House in 1997 in the Enron debacle. For example, according to Indian news sources, India’s government in New Delhi, which had opposed Enron’s plan to build the Dabhol power plant in India, gave reluctant final approval for the Enron Corporation's $ 3 billion venture in India, four days after Enron had given the Democratic National Committee $ 100,000 for an encouraging word to the India government from Bill Clinton.
On February 21, 2002, the Washington Times reminded readers: “that the Clinton administration coughed up more than $1 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans to Enron Corp. just when the energy giant was kicking in almost $2 million for Democrat causes.” If Enron hadn’t lost that $3 billion on the Dabhol power plant, that never opened, they probably would not have gone bankrupt.
As 2004 approaches, the Democrats are in a panic for some way to get George W. Bush out of the White House. They have launched a full scale propaganda campaign to convince the American people that George W. Bush did a TERRIBLE thing by ousting Saddam Hussein who, poor soul, was unjustly accused of trying to buy Uranium in Africa. Let’s just forget that he’d previously bought something like 1000 tons of Uranium from Africa.
Then, just when I think the propaganda war has overwhelmed the American people, I read a story that puts the war in Iraq back into perspective. The first Iraqi woman of the many who suffered under Saddam Hussein had the courage to come forward and testify this week to help the Americans find those who repeatedly raped and tortured her and murdered her husband. Jumana Michael Hanna, a 41- year-old Assyrian Christian and woman poured over hundreds of pictures of Iraqi men on a computer as she tearfully pointed out those who were part of her horror story.
Or, some helpful reader forwards a first-person e-mail report from an American who has the facts and is willing to share them. It isn’t what the American people are being told by the media. Mark, a member of the US Special Ops, wrote a sometimes painfully blunt letter that was posted on Free Republic that every American should read, especially those who are being swayed by Democrats who think we should have either not gone to war in Iraq, or perhaps lost the war so they can get Democrats elected next year. According to Special Op Mark, “It isn't any worse than expected; things are getting better each day, and the morale of the troops is A-1, except for the normal bitching and griping.” So much for the media reports. He went on:
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“I saw a bunch of 19 year-olds from the 82nd Airborne not return fire coming from a mosque until they got a group of elderly civilians out of harm's way. So did the Iraqis.
”A bunch of bad guys used a group of women and children as human shields. The GIs surrounded them and negotiated their surrender fifteen hours later and when they discovered a three year-old girl had been injured by the big tough guys throwing her down a flight of stairs, the GIs called in a MedVac helicopter to take her and her mother to the nearest field hospital. The Iraqis watched it all, and there hasn't been a problem in that neighborhood since. How many such stories, and there are hundreds of them, never get reported in the fair and balanced press? You know, nada.
”The civilians who have figured it out faster than anyone are the local teenagers.
”They watch the GIs and try to talk to them and ask questions about America and now wear wrap-around sunglasses, GAP T- shirts, Dockers (or even better Levis with the red tags) and Nikes (or Egyptian knock-offs, but with the "swoosh") and love to listen to AFN when the GIs play it on their radios.
”They participate less and less in the demonstrations and help keep us informed when a wannabe bad-ass shows up in the neighborhood.”
© Mary Mostert
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