tp199.xml
Title
tp199.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2003-03-10
TomPaine Story: Story
Agenda Interrupted: Not For Bush
From the outset of his campaign for the Presidency, George W. Bush has stayed the course of his agenda: loot the national treasury, increase military spending, diminish Constitutional liberties and stifle descent. Thus far he is succeeding quite well.
The events of September 11, 2001 were a godsend for a President whose election, tainted with the whiff of fraud and political cronyism, made him one of the most unpopular politicians ever to occupy the office.
Yet in the screams of the dying an amiable dolt was transformed into a leader deserving of heros worship.
And another goal was achieved that day: the destruction of Saudi Arabias recalcitrant clients the Afghani Taliban, whose crime was in believing they were masters of their own fate and nation. Had the rude farm boys acquiesced to American entreaties for the construction of an oil and natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan the events of September 11, 2001 might never had occurred. The death of nearly 3,000 Americans and countless Afghani civilians was merely the price of doing business.
Now on the anniversary of that terrible day our President contemplates yet another act of aggression in the oil-rich Middle East: the overthrow of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. Though casualties, military and civilian, on both sides may be high Bush will reap the political benefits of being a wartime leader and the Saudis consolidate their control over the entire region, economically, politically and religiously.
It is merely the price of doing business.
From the outset of his campaign for the Presidency, George W. Bush has stayed the course of his agenda: loot the national treasury, increase military spending, diminish Constitutional liberties and stifle descent. Thus far he is succeeding quite well.
The events of September 11, 2001 were a godsend for a President whose election, tainted with the whiff of fraud and political cronyism, made him one of the most unpopular politicians ever to occupy the office.
Yet in the screams of the dying an amiable dolt was transformed into a leader deserving of heros worship.
And another goal was achieved that day: the destruction of Saudi Arabias recalcitrant clients the Afghani Taliban, whose crime was in believing they were masters of their own fate and nation. Had the rude farm boys acquiesced to American entreaties for the construction of an oil and natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan the events of September 11, 2001 might never had occurred. The death of nearly 3,000 Americans and countless Afghani civilians was merely the price of doing business.
Now on the anniversary of that terrible day our President contemplates yet another act of aggression in the oil-rich Middle East: the overthrow of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. Though casualties, military and civilian, on both sides may be high Bush will reap the political benefits of being a wartime leader and the Saudis consolidate their control over the entire region, economically, politically and religiously.
It is merely the price of doing business.
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“tp199.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed September 28, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/627.