Almal is seker bewus van George W Bush, voormalige president van die VSA, en voormalige alkoholis voor sy bekering tot "born-again-christian", tans beesboer in Texas. Bruce Bartlett wie onder beide die Reagan en die eerste Bush administrasies gedien het beskryf die sielkunde van George W Bush aan Ron Suskind, een van die mees vooraanstaande joernaliste in die VSA, as volg in 2004:
"This is why George W Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can´t be persuaded, that they´re extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he´s just like them....This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts. He truly believes he´s on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence. But you can´t run the world on faith.
Bush het besluit om Irak binne te val ten spyte van al die teenbewyse vir die aanwesigheid van "weapons of mass destruction".
The volgende beskrywing en sitate is afkomstig uit "The Untold History of the United States", deur Oliver Stone en Peter Kuznick":
......Bush unleashed a massive aerial assault on March 20. The strategy was labeled "Shock and Awe", based on a 1996 study by Harlan Ullman and James Wade, who wrote, "Shutting the country down would entail both the physical destruction of appropriate infrastructure and the shutting down and control of the flow of all vital information and associated commerce so rapidly as to achieve a level of national shock akin to the effect that dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on the Japanese".
They warned that this strategy will be "utterly brutal and ruthless", and "can easily fall outside the cultural heritage and values of the U.S."
Die gevolge van Bush se kruisvaart in Irak word as volg beskryf: In 2008, the International Red Cross reported a humanitarian "crisis" in Iraq leaving millions without clean water, sanitation, or health care: "The humanitarian situation in most of the country remains among the most critical in the world". Twenty-thousand of the 34, 000 doctors who had practiced in Iraq in 1990 had left the country, 2,200 had been killed and 250 kidnapped.
Two million Iraqis are in refugee camps in bordering countries. Cities lack regular electricity, telephone services and sanitation ... In a lawless environment where men with guns rule the streets, engaging in the banalities of life has become a death-defying act.
So redeneer die Amerikaners hoog op in die administrasie: Volgens Robert McNamara, in ‘n onderhoud met hom aangaande sy rol in die Vietnam Oorlog: "In order to do good, recognize that at times you will have to engage in evil. We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men woman and children."
"LeMay said, if we´d lost the war, we´d all have been prosecuted as war criminals."
Wat ek persoonlik onrusbarend vind van hierdie verhaal is dat die veiligheid en heil van die mensdom nie eers aan ‘n christen toevertrou kan word nie, nog minder aan ‘n "born-again" variant nie.
Beste groete,
Pieter Redelinghuys
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