POINT OF VIEW
THE RUSSIAN PRAVDA AND PRESIDENT BUSH
BUSH
Dmitry Litvinovich: Bush-s high
politics is saturated with lies
The
USA is ready to use force to make Iraq liquidate its weapons of mass
destruction, US President George W. Bush says. The USA prefers a peaceful
settlement of the Iraqi conflict, however, it is ready to start a battle to
succeed with the objective, the president said when he addressed troops at the
Fort Hood military base in Texas. ?You'll be fighting not to conquer anybody
but to liberate people,¦ the US president said. In his words, different
circumstances demand different strategies, from diplomatic pressure to usage
of force. The very fact that UNMOVIC inspectors still fail to find weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq is just an additional argument proving Saddam-s
guilt. Being entangled in his own lies, the US president doesn-t distinguish
any more between the reality and the illusion. Obliging brains prompt
appropriate words. The other day, George W. Bush said that the USA realized
perfectly well the dangers and the challenges the country faced; he added that
the present-day generation of Americans was ready to carry the burden of the
world-s super-power number one. ?We act in the cause of peace and freedom and
in that cause we will prevail."
George Bush-s Web of Lies:
Everyone who opens the mouth makes mistakes, and we pardon them
Last month, when George Bush told
the nation about the necessity to call Saddam Hussein into account, he also
warned that Iraq-s fleet of unmanned planes was increasing, and the planes
could be used for ?missions targeted at the USA.¦ At that very period,
President Bush was asked about new evidences proving Saddam-s development of
weapons of mass destruction; George W. Bush cited a report by the
International Atomic Energy Agency saying that ?Iraq was six months away from
making the weapon.¦ Those statements were strong arguments for the actions
planned by President Bush; however, they were all dubious, we can also say
erroneous. As it turned out later, the above mentioned planes had insufficient
range to hit the USA; no report of this kind was published by the IAEA. As
George W. Bush leads the nation to confrontation with Iraq and his party to
the struggle at the pre-elections, his rhetoric is getting somewhat fantastic.
The statements announced by the US president on different subjects, from
economic to the Iraqi problem, reveal that the president who won the elections
by convicting Al Gore of falsification and exaggeration, is himself guilty of
some. Exaggerations made by presidents are no doubt a tradition hoary with
ages. Ronald Reagan was famous for his apocryphal story about a concentration
camp liberation. Bill Clinton even under oath lied about his private
thoughtless deeds in order to be always a step ahead of accusers. Richard
Nixon had his refutations concerning Watergate; Lyndon Johnson was often
blamed for manipulation of the truth for the sake of saving his face because
of the Vietnam War. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy also
manipulated with the truth in the situations with Harry Powers and the Bay of
Pigs.