[lit-ideas] Fwd: Mr. Bush and His 10 Ever-Changing Different Positions on Iraq: "A flip and a flop and now just a flop."

  • From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:17:01 +0200

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> De: mailinglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: 23 septembre 2004 13:32:09 GMT+02:00
> À: goya@xxxxxxx
> Objet: Mr. Bush and His 10 Ever-Changing Different Positions on Iraq: 
> "A flip and a flop and now just a flop."
>
> 9/22/04
>
> Dear Mr. Bush,
>
> I am so confused. Where exactly do you stand on the issue of Iraq? 
> You, your Dad, Rummy, Condi, Colin, and Wolfie -- you have all changed 
> your minds so many times, I am out of breath just trying to keep up 
> with you!
>  Which of these 10 positions that you, your family and your cabinet 
> have taken over the years represents your CURRENT thinking:
>
> 1983-88: WE LOVE SADDAM. On December 19, 1983, Donald Rumsfeld was 
> sent by your dad and Mr. Reagan to go and have a friendly meeting with 
> Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq. Rummy looked so happy in the 
> picture. Just twelve days after this visit, Saddam gassed thousands of 
> Iranian troops. Your dad and Rummy seemed pretty happy with the 
> results because ?The Donald R.? went back to have another chummy 
> hang-out with Saddam?s right-hand man, Tariq Aziz, just four months 
> later. All of this resulted in the U.S. providing credits and loans to 
> Iraq that enabled Saddam to buy billions of dollars worth of weapons 
> and chemical agents. The Washington Post reported that your dad and 
> Reagan let it be known to their Arab allies that the Reagan/Bush 
> administration wanted Iraq to win its war with Iran and anyone who 
> helped Saddam accomplish this was a friend of ours.
>
> 1990: WE HATE SADDAM. In 1990, when Saddam invaded Kuwait, your dad 
> and his defense secretary, Dick Cheney, decided they didn't like 
> Saddam anymore so they attacked Iraq and returned Kuwait to its 
> rightful dictators.
>
> 1991: WE WANT SADDAM TO LIVE. After the war, your dad and Cheney and 
> Colin Powell told the Shiites to rise up against Saddam and we would 
> support them. So they rose up. But then we changed our minds. When the 
> Shiites rose up against Saddam, the Bush inner circle changed its mind 
> and decided NOT to help the Shiites. Thus, they were massacred by 
> Saddam.
>
> 1998: WE WANT SADDAM TO DIE. In 1998, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others, 
> as part of the Project for the New American Century, wrote an open 
> letter to President Clinton insisting he invade and topple Saddam 
> Hussein.
>
> 2000: WE DON'T BELIEVE IN WAR AND NATION BUILDING. Just three years 
> later, during your debate with Al Gore in the 2000 election, when 
> asked by the moderator Jim Lehrer where you stood when it came to 
> using force for regime change, you turned out to be a downright 
> pacifist:
>
> ?I--I would take the use of force very seriously. I would be guarded 
> in my approach. I don't think we can be all things to all people in 
> the world. I think we've got to be very careful when we commit our 
> troops. The vice president [Al Gore] and I have a disagreement about 
> the use of troops. He believes in nation building. I--I would be very 
> careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role 
> of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war 
> from happening in the first place. And so I take my--I take my--my 
> responsibility seriously.? --October 3, 2000
>
> 2001 (early): WE DON'T BELIEVE SADDAM IS A THREAT. When you took 
> office in 2001, you sent your Secretary of State, Colin Powell, and 
> your National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, in front of the 
> cameras to assure the American people they need not worry about Saddam 
> Hussein. Here is what they said:
>
>  Powell: ?We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly 
> be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they have directed 
> that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was 10 
> years ago when we began it. And frankly, they have worked. He has not 
> developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass 
> destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his 
> neighbors.? --February 24, 2001
>
> Rice: ?But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that 
> his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern 
> part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military 
> forces have not been rebuilt.? --July 29, 2001
>
> 2001 (late): WE BELIEVE SADDAM IS GOING TO KILL US! Just a few months 
> later, in the hours and days after the 9/11 tragedy, you had no 
> interest in going after Osama bin Laden. You wanted only to bomb Iraq 
> and kill Saddam and you then told all of America we were under 
> imminent threat because weapons of mass destruction were coming our 
> way. You led the American people to believe that Saddam had something 
> to do with Osama and 9/11. Without the UN's sanction, you broke 
> international law and invaded Iraq.
>
> 2003: WE DON?T BELIEVE SADDAM IS GOING TO KILL US. After no WMDs were 
> found, you changed your mind about why you said we needed to invade, 
> coming up with a brand new after-the-fact reason -- we started this 
> war so we could have regime change, liberate Iraq and give the Iraqis 
> democracy!
>
> 2003: ?MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!? Yes, everyone saw you say it -- in 
> costume, no less!
>
> 2004: OOPS. MISSION NOT ACCOMPLISHED! Now you call the Iraq invasion a 
> "catastrophic success." That's what you called it this month. Over a 
> thousand U.S. soldiers have died, Iraq is in a state of total chaos 
> where no one is safe, and you have no clue how to get us out of there.
>
>  Mr. Bush, please tell us -- when will you change your mind again?
>
> I know you hate the words "flip" and "flop," so I won't use them both 
> on you. In fact, I'll use just one: Flop. That is what you are. A 
> huge, colossal flop. The war is a flop, your advisors and the 
> "intelligence" they gave you is a flop, and now we are all a flop to 
> the rest of the world. Flop. Flop. Flop.
>
>  And you have the audacity to criticize John Kerry with what you call 
> the "many positions" he has taken on Iraq. By my count, he has taken 
> only one: He believed you. That was his position. You told him and the 
> rest of congress that Saddam had WMDs. So he -- and the vast majority 
> of Americans, even those who didn't vote for you -- believed you. You 
> see, Americans, like John Kerry, want to live in a country where they 
> can believe their president.
>
>  That was the one, single position John Kerry took. He didn't support 
> the war, he supported YOU. And YOU let him and this great country 
> down. And that is why tens of millions can't wait to get to the polls 
> on Election Day -- to remove a major, catastrophic flop from our dear, 
> beloved White House -- to stop all the flipping you and your men have 
> done, flipping us and the rest of the world off.
>
>  We can't take another minute of it.
>
> Yours,
>
> Michael Moore
>  mmflint@xxxxxxx
>  www.michaelmoore.com
>
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France

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