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Bush's Democratic Charade in Iraq Posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2004 The Torturers Among Us First, it is unambiguously clear that the torture of prisoners in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo, and at Abu Ghraib was official policy. Lawyers for the Pentagon and the White House, reporting directly to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush, wrote contorted legal briefs trying to define a category of person immune to both due process of law and the Third Geneva Convention. Reagan was the Butcher of My People Chirac blocks Bush on NATO role in Iraq Strategies Wanted Pride, Patriotism, and Propaganda Human Rights Group Criticizes US 'Torture' Memo Our kind of dictators Saddam trial lacks 'smoking gun' evidence, witnesses: report Bush's Democratic Charade in Iraq In November 2003, with US soldiers facing mounting casualties and the search for weapons of mass destruction largely abandoned, George W. Bush appeared before the National Endowment for Democracy, a quasi-public institution set up to advance US political objectives abroad. There, on the Endowment's Twentieth anniversary, Bush proclaimed a new rationale for the occupation of Iraq-"To build a democracy," a democracy that "will send forth the news from Damascus to Tehran."   Printer friendly version  Send page by E-Mail |