Last night, George Bush made a cross-over from representing himself as an American, to becoming a leader who represents Christian interests. Anyone on this planet can be a Christian, but to be defined as an American it requires something that is broader than just religion. It requires tolerance that goes beyond the way Christianity is practiced today. Last night, George Bush did not speak to those of us who believe in American ideals -- those of us who can understand that there is more than religion that bonds us together. Instead, last night, George Bush appealed to those who put God before country. He appealed to their sense of divine manifesto and told him that freedom was a gift from the Almighty God and that we have an obligation to spread that freedom.
Well, it's clear to me that it's not freedom he's talking about. If it were freedom, Bush would have never gone into Iraq in the first place. We've already caused enough damage to make Sadaam look good. The Iraq War was about retaliation against a crime it didn't commit. The Iraq War was about pre-emptive strikes against perceived dangers of WMD. And now that we realize that it was all a mistake, suddenly George becomes the great crusader and tells us that it is our duty to stay in Iraq and die in order to spread the freedom that God has given us as a gift. This is a gift with a tainted bow. George's crusade is ill-conceived. It is a fall back plan and bad one at that. What it will do is martyr our boys in war, and George will be the beneficiary of their spilled blood. "Sangre Ajena." He would rather wear their blood, than admit he made a mistake.
It looks like others picked up on this theme last night as well:
Making a Case for a Mission
WASHINGTON, April 13 — Facing a moment of political peril unlike any in the more than one thousand days of his presidency, George W. Bush made the case on Tuesday night for staying the course in Iraq with the language and zeal of a missionary and combined it with a stark warning that failure would embolden America's enemies around the world.
"We're changing the world," Mr. Bush said halfway through a speech and news conference that was largely an hourlong justification for holding fast in Iraq, no matter how the casualties mount, no matter how chaotic the process of forming a new government.
Drawing later on a line he often slips into his campaign speeches, he reminded a global audience that
"freedom is the Almighty's gift to every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom."http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/14/politics/14ASSE.html
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