This administration has terrible record
People of conscience will judge the Bush regime as the hoax of the century; with eight consecutive State of the Union addresses being the punch lines of the cruelest jokes ever played on humanity.
For the past seven years, we have watched in horror as authentic America values have been recklessly abandoned along with the cherished foundations of an entire nation. The Constitution, itself, defiled by an ideology which replaced political spin with an appalling pathology.
It would be exhausting to enumerate all the blatant contradictions of this latest State of the Union address. The absurd promotion of any form of national health care by a president who vetoed access to health care for 10 million children -- twice.
The sheer audacity to discuss economic relief for a nation which has minimized taxes for its wealthiest 10 percent, while spending $11 billion a month for the immoral occupation of Iraq.
The raw impudence to suggest an increase in funding of the international fight against the pandemic of HIV/AIDS by an administration which has incubated this murderous disease by refusing access to condoms as well as refusing funding to organizations which have a proven track record for combating it.
The malignant hypocrisy to propose economic strength after inflicting a national deficit so enormous no one alive today will live to see it transformed into the surplus this administration inherited.
The preposterous assumption we would once again follow blindly into a catastrophic war with Iran after having been deliberately deceived and manipulated by our own government to justify the unjustifiable occupation in Iraq.
Yes, it would be simple to continue noting Bush's deliberate distortions that defined his last State of the Union address.
Far worse even than the brutal murder of tens of thousands innocent Iraqis and Afghanistanis, the codification of inhumane torture, and the trivialization of millions of human beings is the irreversible damage this regime has inflicted on the entire world. In failing to accept responsibility for its complicit role in 9/11, this administration has paralyzed entire generations around the globe.
Its defiance to the laws of nature and the laws of man has left an irretrievable atmosphere of fear, mistrust, and hatred, which will continue to pollute the planet for decades to come. A contamination so severe it has transformed a nation founded on ideals of liberty and freedom to a theocratic, fascist pathocracy.
This heinous administration must not be allowed to complete its term. It must be held accountable for its countless insidious war crimes and crimes against humanity. Regrettably, there is no way to hold Bush and Cheney accountable for the lingering malignancy which remains in the wake of their administration.
Barbara Zaha
St. Charles