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In the Public Interest
The all-knowing, instinct-driven President
April 3, 2003
With the chicken hawk-driven war on Iraq in high gear, Bush and Cheney have learned that the best
way to silence the Democratic Party, distract from their miserable domestic outrages and provide the
corporate and rich classes with favors is to envelop our nation in fear.
Using false or distorted statements, contrary to the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies, to
exaggerate Iraqi threats, weapons and terrorist (al-Qaeda) connections as reasons for the war, their
invasion and prolonged occupation may produce greater risks of stateless terrorism in the U.S. Last
fall, the CIA informed Congress of just this higher probability resulting from an Iraqi invasion.
Watching reports describing our draft-dodging President as totally immersed in the scope and details
of his Iraqi invasion, a number of puzzling questions arise:
1.) Why is Bush pouring half of the entire U.S. military at huge cost into the Persian Gulf while
rejecting the frantic requests by cities and states (such as New York City) for overdue monies for
homeland security?
2.) What will Bush say to Americans if no weaponized nuclear, chemical or biological materials are
found in Iraq or, if found, not used, as 60 Minutes World War II vet Andy Rooney believes we
ourselves would use if a powerful foreign invasion was overwhelming our country? The CIA told Bush
that Saddam would be more likely to use these chemical and biological weapons if the U.S. invades.
3.) With domestic necessities of the American people being ignored, why is Bush pushing Congress for
yet another huge tax cut for the wealthy while Alan Greenspan is warning about larger budget
deficits this year and afterwards?
4.) Albeit surrounded by his little clique of ideologues, why has Bush refused requests to meet from
any of thirteen major antiwar groups representing tens of millions of Americans? They include labor,
business, clergy, human rights, war veterans, academics with national security experience,
physicians and elected city officials who have much to inform him. Some have battle experience in
the Gulf and know about toxic exposures to our troops. Others have returned from Iraq with first
hand knowledge about conditions. Still others are steeped in the boomerang effect of ill-advised
belligerence and distraction from more serious global conflicts and struggles against sabotage.
Tony Blair in London received for nearly an hour a delegation from the National Council of Churches
headed by former Congressman Bob Edgar. Yet the Council leaders have been rejected by their own
President for the past year. There is the cause and effect of history that Bush needs to know about
in the Middle East. Maybe he would not have used the word "crusade" or have invoked God's will and
his divine guidance regarding overthrowing Saddam. Such references are viewed in Islamic societies
as meaning a religious war.
But Bush does not seek any advice, information or insights from these informed Americans. He ignored
all their written requests (see 
www.essentialaction.org
).
5.) Immersed in Iraq, Bush pays little attention to America. He is spending far more time on the
Middle East, and destructively so, than on the manufacturing decline of the Middle West. And he
wants to cut veterans benefits. His unchallenged domination of the mass media leaves little space
for others to raise these issues.
Heard about opportunity cost (or opportunities lost) of his Messianicmilitarism lately? No attention
to a long frozen minimum wage, worsening poverty, skyrocketing drug prices along with soaring
consumer bills for oil and natural gas. Heard about advances needed for energy efficiency and solar
power and less gas guzzling motor vehicles? Bush has put America on hold!
6.) What is a weapon of mass destruction anyhow? Ask Iraqi families whether or not Bush has sent
weapons of mass destruction from the air, from the sea and on land, to smash their country and
destroy tens of thousands of lives in order to topple one man. Haven't the economic sanctions
blocking medicines, surgical materials and sanitation purifiers for clean drinking water taken the
lives of enough Iraqi children over a decade? Deliberately making civilians suffer for a military
overthrow of a dictator happens to be a violation of international law.
7.) Why did know-it-all Bush, who ironically brags about making decisions from his gut, stifle
dissent from his war policy and its likely aftermath that still simmers at sub-cabinet levels inside
the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department? Leading retired Generals, Admirals, diplomats and
national security officials tried to articulate the same criticism publicly over the past few
months.
8.) Except for the oil and munitions industries, the war is a downer on the economy. A few business
executives have spoken up strongly. Most are not prone to speak publicly for fear of retaliation by
the Bush Administration which, in this area, is believed to be vindictive against corporate
dissenters.
From the big Geneva Switzerland auto show last month, Automotive News' executive editor, Peter Brown
of Detroit, talked to many European auto executives. He writes: "Personally, most of the executives
oppose the war as unnecessary and likely to lead to greater terrorism and instability." This is
pretty much the judgment of most of the U.S. foreign policy establishment whose prominent
ex-government officials are also being ignored by the all-knowing, instinct-driven President.

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