EDITORIAL

WHAT WENT WRONG? Synopsis of our Iraq/USA war serious mistakes and poor judgment vis-à-vis Iraq. By Maximillien de Lafayette, Esquire

No doubt, President Bush is one of the most honest and devoted American presidents. He deserves our respect, trust and admiration. Personally, I am fully convinced that President Bush is honorable and the perfect man for the job! Don't exclusively blame President Bush for the tragic and unfortunate events and embarrassment caused by some of his administration decisions, course of action and the White House foreign policies, for anti Bush coalition and his political opponents are equally responsible at many levels. Don't criticize the American media for exaggerating statements and events and crafting unreliable reports, exposing or hiding what is so-called fake and accurate, for a large segment of the public tremendously enjoy trigger-happy and "explosively chocking" news and articles. All of them are equally responsible to a certain degree, individually or collectively, willingly or unwillingly. It is not my intention to singularly put the blame on any individual or a group, nor to single out particular decision makers and point my finger at specific decisions taken by the US government in any branch and at any level which either catapulted tragic events, war, catastrophic diplomatic relations or major failures in domestic and foreign policies. The sole purpose of this editorial is to briefly synopsize the major mistakes and decisions we made as an American nation and to propose some possible "remedies" in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future.

PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE US GOVERNMENT AGENCIES MAJOR MISTAKES, DECISIONS AND COURSE OF ACTION:

MISTAKE #1: INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENCE: Almost 99.99% of President Bush decisions and his aides recommendations were based upon information and intelligence reports provided by various intelligence agencies, including but not limited to the CIA, FBI, American embassies abroad and various intelligence departments/sections in the military. Unfortunately, the overwhelming information on terrorism, Al Qaeda and varied terrorists organizations in the eastern and western hemispheres were "crafted" by:

A- FOREIGN SOURCES: Unreliable foreign persons and Arab nationals, so-assumed allied operators, Arab defectors, former members of deposed regimes in the Arab world, poor quality spies of a foreign ethnic origin who disdain this or that particular Arab regime et al. Almost 90% of them failed (intentionally or unintentionally) to provide accurate and reliable information for obvious reasons, reasons we know and reasons we ignore. But what is almost certain is the fact that the majority of Arabs and Muslims who offered their services to the American government had no intention -whatsoever- to genuinely help the Americans in general and President Bush in particular. Despite the fact that they hated Saddam Hussein and other forms of governments in the Near and the Middle East, their hate and disdain for the USA, the alleged Jewish-Christian Conspiracy are bigger than their loyalty to the United States and far greater than their desire to remove Saddam Hussein and various tyrants in the Arab and Islamic worlds. The Bush administration never realized that Arabs and most particularly Muslims will never participate in any effort or a course of action to replace Islamic values and beliefs with American values, beliefs and political system, no matter how unhappy and unsatisfied they are with the regimes which unjustly governed their countries, ruined their lives and destroyed their families. An Arab will always remain an Arab and a Muslim will always remain a devoted Muslim at any cost. Consequently, any intelligence or information provided by an Arab and a Muslim should have been checked over and over again, and periodically put to an "unscheduled" test. The Bush administration failed to do this. Almost all the Arab defectors, Muslims spies working for the USA inside the USA and abroad, as well as Arab and Muslim heads of states assumingly friendly toward the USA worked against the USA interests in the region of the Near and Middle East. Behind close doors, Egypt's Hosni Mobarak, Pakistan Musharraf, Saudi Arabia royal family, influential members of the Hashemite family in Jordan and USA appointed men of power in Afghanistan work in sync to destroy the influence and expansion of power of the USA in the Arab and Muslim worlds. By nature, by necessity, traditionally and by raison d'etre, Arab leaders hate America and what the USA stands for! They were never the friends of the USA and till the end of time, they will remain USA foes and antagonists. The intelligence and information, the US should take into great consideration are those which were, are or shall be provided by Israel, Christian Maronites sources in Lebanon, Christian Ashurians (Assyrians) in Iraq, Christian Syriac in Syria, Coptic in Egypt, observers in India and foreign French agents operating in Greece, Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, the Middle East, the Near East and Asia Minor. And plenty of them currently live in the United States. The US should have NOT fully trusted Muslim Arabs who operated under the

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