George W. Bush’s Shameful Legacy in Afghanistan

If there is any justice, the name of the former president will live in infamy, writes James Bovard.

Former President George W. Bush is bewailing President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

[consortiumnews.com]

Again. After nearly 20 years this insanity has gone unquestioned. This indoctrination allows this asshat to continue to propose the continuance of more deaths of our men and women and innocent Afghan civilians.

{After Al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes on Sept. 11, wreaking death and destruction in New York and Washington, it was inevitable that the U.S. military would respond. But rather than targeting Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, Bush chose to conquer Afghanistan and seek to rebuild it as some type of female-friendly utopia. While the Bush White House boasted of liberating the downtrodden Afghan people, Bush’s military geniuses let Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders escape at Tora Bora.}

And during 3 interviews claimed he didn't care about Bin Laden. He then went on later to take a stage act about laughing he couldn't find WMD's. His first act as he looked under the seats of people on stage behind them went so well, as everyone laughed with him, he did it again on at least 2 other occasions I'm aware of. When you allow this type of indoctrination to become fruition, you're living in a profoundly sick society.

{Two years later, Bush administration officials admitted that the president’s statement was completely false and that no nuclear power plant diagrams had been discovered in Afghanistan. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Edward McGaffigan, who had testified in 2002 on this falsehood at closed hearings on Capitol Hill, commented that Bush was “poorly served by a speechwriter.”

This was a farce — as if the deceit stemmed from some speechwriter’s poetic fancy — as opposed to the conniving of a phalanx of high-ranking officials and the complicity of George W. Bush. Bush’s lies on a nuclear threat from Afghanistan paved the way to his far more destructive lies regarding Iraqi chemical and biological weapons in his 2003 State of the Union address.

Bush shamelessly exploited the deaths of soldiers he sent to Afghanistan. On May 1, 2004, Bush wrapped up his speech to the White House Correspondents Dinner by exploiting the recent death of a former pro football star to valorize his Afghan war.}

This is the delusional reality a capitalist system requires to profit off of. Afghanistan was once a thriving country of a socialist nature before the westernized world interfered by attempting to install a tyrant government. In which the population asked Russia to help stop. Then came Jimmy Carter, Charlie Wilson, and the CIA. Then came America at the behest of Europe. The Brits more preciously. You don't take me serious when I claim we are being used as a tool by the world ruling class? I stand firm within that conjecture. A vast culture with a rich society has been erased since those years. It use to resemble much to what Libya once was before America came. Now they are both waste lands rich only with blood on the ground and horrid conditions of various aspects for their people. While the real tyrannical criminals compete for the riches within their grounds under that blood.

Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy

Abby Martin covers the whole truth about the Afghanistan War, from the CIA construct of the 80's through today's senseless stalemate. Two decades, three administrations, tens of thousands of lives; it's time to #EndTheForeverWar.