George W. Bush makes Vietnam vets political pawns yet again
As Aug. 22, 2007 comes to an end, one thing is emphatically clear: This is the day that the President of the United States disrespected and spit on the memories of the nearly 60,000 U.S. troops that died in Vietnam - a war he, his vice-president, and nearly everyone involved in creating the Iraq occupation, dodged.
This is the day George W. Bush threw Vietnam veterans under the bus, make no mistake. Not satisfied with allowing them to be used as political pawns by the U.S. government decades earlier, the President went out of his way to use those that fought in Vietnam, their families, and the millions killed in that war as political pawns yet again. He took history and altered it wildly to fit his agenda. To fit his sick ideology.
Today, a man who lacked the courage to fight, who has been a failure at all he has done, who is personally responsible for 4,000 dead Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, used Vietnam veterans as a prop to scare America into continuing his horrifyingly failed “War on Terror.” A War on Terror that amounts to little more than attacking a nation that hadn’t attacked us, and taking away the civil rights of his own people, while allowing terrorist organizations to grow stronger.
Aug. 22, 2007. The day George W. Bush, beyond a shadow of a doubt, proved to the entire world that he is a cowardly, despicable failure. On Aug. 22, 2007, the true character of the President of the United States was on display for all to see. And it was a chilling, horrible and pathetic thing to see. And if we allow this childish, stupid man to attack Iran, we are all just as pathetic as he.
–WKW