Blogging for Freedom

GW Bush was in Indonesia yesterday. Protesters filled the streets and anti-Bush demonstrations became so virulent that our American President had to be whisked out of the country before nightfall.  Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population.

It seems here in the US we just don't seem to understand why they hate us so much.  History apparently is something we don't worry our pretty little heads with.  If we did, we'd remember other foreign wars, past conflicts, old events and maybe we'd actually learn something about what we're doing now and why the world has so much animosity towards us.

Just the fact that we pre-emptively invaded Iraq and bombed Baghdad in an attempt to "shock and awe" is enough to piss off any civilized society. The world was shocked alright. Back then there was at least the possibility that Bush may have been right about Saddam and WMDs.  Now, of course, we know the truth. The war was sold on a pack of lies and deceptions. The plan to invade Iraq and take down Saddam was made a decade ago and September 11, the War on Terror and our Noble Spread of Democracy have nothing to do with it. 

GW's mentor and Dick's confidante and co-conspirator, Henry Kissinger, was in London at the same time GW was touring Asia. He said in a press conference the Iraq war is unwinnable. This from the architect of the Viet Nam war during the Nixon years who has a documented reputation for lying through his teeth.  Oh well, after 600,000 Iraqi deaths and over 2850 US troops killed in another war he designed and forced onto the world ... oops.

I guess most Americans don't realize how outrageous and utterly disgusting it is that Kissinger has honor and credibility in our current government. He's a war criminal!  He ordered bombing raids that killed millions of innocent men, women and children during his Nixon years.  He arranged assassinations in the Middle East and violent overthrows of democratically elected governments in South America.  These are not secrets. His actions live in history, public documents and factual records, and no amount of spin and propaganda now from the Bushies will make the rest of the world forget the truth.