Louis Brossard Blog

Louis Brossard Blog

In the wake of the Iraq Panel Report.

December 6, 2006

Finally the American people are beginning to realize the extent of the catastrophe caused by our invasion of Iraq. We, the people, infused with hubris fed by greed and blinded by ignorance are responsible for the preemptive war that is still killing thousands. We now realize that our war is a total failure; a tragic, irrational, immoral and illegal error; a “grave and deteriorating situation”.

It is disheartening to hear how some of us are trying to pass the responsibility for our incompetence and ignorance to the nation we invaded. We no longer even know how to define what a successful end to the war would be. We are now pleading with other nations to come to our aid and help us retreat with some semblance of order and dignity.

It was painful for me to watch President Bush, the father, unable to complete a speech praising his intelligent and competent son, Governor Ged Bush. He just broke down and cried uncontrollably. He understands that the name Bush has lost all respectability and honor because his simple son, the venal, sallow, dogmatic one followed him to national prominence instead of his intellectual son. His legacy now will be the father of the worst president this nation has had instead of the honorable one he earned for himself.

Tomorrow will be the 65^th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack which brought the United States into World War Two. As a result of our success in helping stop Nazi Germany we were respected and admired by the entire world. As a result of the George W. Bush ideological extremism and naive bumbling we are now reviled throughout the world. Our power is feared, our economy is envied and our life style emulated. Our self righteousness, our greed, our international ignorance is deplored.

This country still offers more opportunity to achieve financial advantage than most other countries. We still have a country with admirable personal freedom. We can still regain an honorable place in the world. What we need to do is live up to the values we teach our children. Is it hopelessly naive to believe that our government should tell the truth and that they should put the country’s interests before their own? I learned we are a country of laws. I think we should be. I learned that we are a country that guarantees personal freedom and the equality of all people before the law. Let us return to those principals.

It is now essential that we, the people, demand of our government rational action rather then slogans; a realistic assessment of our power and our place in the community of governments and respect for international law. It is time we demand of our government that it live up to our American values.