George Bush Comes Clean; What the President Really Could Have Said at Annapolis

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By David Michael Green, Posted by Rob Kall (about the submitter) Page 3 of 4 page(s)

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We lied about going to the UN. The only time we ever got serious about the weapons inspectors was when we made seriously damn sure to yank them out before they could undermine our other lies justifying the war.

Even to this day, I run around talking about how we had UN approval for the war. What a load of garbage that is. I lied saying there would be an up-or-down vote in the Security Council, when, in fact, we cut and ran when it was clear that even stomping banana republics could only get us four votes out of fifteen for a war resolution. Hell, half of those were us and the Brits. So we yanked it 'cause it wasn't goin' anywhere. Every time we say that there were twelve years worth of authorizing resolutions supporting this war, well, that's just plain bunk. The UN never approved this thing, and the proof is that we pulled the approval resolution when it clearly was dead.

We lied when we told you that Iraqis would welcome us with flowers and chocolates. They hate our guts, just like we'd hate them for invading our country.

We lied when we told you that the war would be quick and cheap, a cakewalk that could be won with a handful of troops. And we fired or smeared anyone who got in our way by telling the truth about that, like General Shinseki.

We even lied about when the war started. You probably think it was Shock and Awe in March 2003, but we had actually started much earlier, trying to bait Saddam into a response. That's the whole reason we went to the UN, too. We were just hoping that he would refuse the weapons inspectors. Anything to get us a war.

We're lying to you now about making progress in Iraq, and we were getting ready to lie to you with today's big press roll-out for our new 'victory' plan. The truth is it's just the same rehashed snake-oil that Rove has been peddling for three years now, gussied up to look shiny and new.

Know why? Because we haven't got a clue in the world how to get out of this thing. As another Texan in a very similar situation would have said of us today, my people couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel. Did you know that my administration is now offering a purse stuffed with one billion of your tax dollars to anybody who can figure a way to undo the mess we've made? I mean, even for fans of 'market-based solutions', that's really ridiculous. National security policy for hire, and still we draw our salaries. Go figure.

But you know what was the biggest lie of all? Remember how I used to say I didn't want to go to war? That the war was avoidable, if only Saddam would do the right thing? How all he had to do was to give up his weapons of mass destruction? And how he was lying when he said he didn't have any?

I guess you know by now what a load of crap that was. We planned this godforsaken thing even before we stole the election of 2000 (which, of course, was before we stole the election of 2004). There was nothing Saddam could have done to avoid the war short of high-tailing it out of Iraq, and we still would have invaded anyhow. For once, Saddam actually told the truth when he said he had no WMD, and I lied like a kennel of fat hounds in summer by immediately calling him the liar boy!

There was no way out, my friends. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, me we wanted a war, and we damn-sure meant to have it. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the sad, sad truth. And it haunts me every day.

Now, in about five minutes, you're gonna be hearin' all manner of crap from ol' Scotty McClellan over there, and Rove and Cheney and the rest, about how 'the president is under a lot of stress', and how 'he had a temporary episode but he's fine now', and loads more. They're gonna try to tell you I went mental today, and the knock-kneed media is probably going to play along, and so will half the Democrats, wimpiest party on God's Green Earth.

But you know what? These are the truest words I've uttered since taking the oath of office five years ago. And, goddam, I feel lighter for it. Heck, I feel lighter just being able to say 'goddam'!

But I also feel sick to my stomach. I can't believe what I've done. I can't believe how much blood is on my hands. I can't believe what history is going to say about me for centuries on end 'Worst president ever', some of 'em are already saying. I can't believe the destruction and pain I've let loose in pursuit of my own power and glory and trying to for once best my daddy. I can't believe the sickos I've appointed and listened to.

It's disgusting. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm gonna need about sixteen really long showers just to get through the rest of this day. And, after that, I don't know what.

What I do know is that I'm starting my life over now. I know that I've got a thousand lifetimes' worth of work to do to fix what I've broken, but less than half a life left on this planet in which to do it. And so I'm going to get to work on this, right this second.

Anyone got Cindy Sheehan's phone number?

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