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The search is officially over. The weapons inspectors and CIA analysts are done searching. Kaput. And they have now said on the record, explicitly, as has the White House, that there are NO WMDs in Iraq. Well, I'll be darned. That's a shocker if I ever heard one. So there goes your 'main' reason for invading Iraq nearly two years ago. And I've been thinking, Mr. Bush, that with all the consequences and and negative aftereffects of this war, some of which are still happening, that maybe you should be apologizing to a few people.
Why don't you start out by going to to Congress and verbally apologizing to them for blatently lying to them at multiple State Of The Union addresses.
Then you should probably call up Colin Powell(if he's already left) and apologize to him for making him speak what he knew to be lies, to the United Nations.
For that matter, you should probably make it first priority at the next cabinet meeting to apologize to any and all cabinet members whose reputations you may have tarnished during this war. Except for Donny, Dick, and Condi, of course. No point in apologizing to your partners.
At this point you should probably go on national television in prime time and apologize to the American people for lying to them, taking their country to war on false pretenses, and for pissing away unprecedented world support after 9/11 and making their country hated by much of the international community. Even if it wasn't your fault and it was in fact the fault of the CIA(EXTREMELY unlikely), you should still apologize to the American people as a symbolic gesture. That's sort of the idea of being Chief Of State. See, a U.S. President is both symbolic Chief Of State AND Commander And Chief.
And after that, you should probably get around to the most important apologies of all. The apologies that matter more than any others. The apologies that may well make their recepients only despise you more. You should write authentic letters of apology to every mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, grandmother, grandfather, and friend of any of the (now nearing) 1300 men and women in the armed forces who died in this war. And I don't mean that you should tell the appropriate people on your staff to write a letter for you to sign and them to xerox 1300 times. I mean sit at your desk in the oval office, and write that letter. It should probably be a few pages long if it is to adequately express your remorse and guilt for being responsible for their loved ones' dying for a lie. For them having to bury their loved ones. For a parent having to outlive their child. For a little kid that won't remember his/her father when he gets older. For a wife who has become a widow all too soon. For a youngest child who lost the older brother they always looked up to. For a person who lost his/her best friend. Just to scratch the surface. Tell them how profoundly and deeply sorry you are for your lie.
I realize I'm asking a lot from a guy who answered 'Oh, absolutely' when asked by Barbara Walters if he, knowing what he does now, would do it[the war] again. If, however, you do get all that done, you could try taking a nap. Apologizing for presidential mistakes is an extremely exhausting practice. Pictures of baggy-eyed Nixon and even more baggy-eyed Clinton come to mind. Yeah, other presidents have usually apologized for their fuckups. But now that I think about it, you may not be able to take a nap. I'd be astonished if you could sleep knowing what you know.
Why don't you start out by going to to Congress and verbally apologizing to them for blatently lying to them at multiple State Of The Union addresses.
Then you should probably call up Colin Powell(if he's already left) and apologize to him for making him speak what he knew to be lies, to the United Nations.
For that matter, you should probably make it first priority at the next cabinet meeting to apologize to any and all cabinet members whose reputations you may have tarnished during this war. Except for Donny, Dick, and Condi, of course. No point in apologizing to your partners.
At this point you should probably go on national television in prime time and apologize to the American people for lying to them, taking their country to war on false pretenses, and for pissing away unprecedented world support after 9/11 and making their country hated by much of the international community. Even if it wasn't your fault and it was in fact the fault of the CIA(EXTREMELY unlikely), you should still apologize to the American people as a symbolic gesture. That's sort of the idea of being Chief Of State. See, a U.S. President is both symbolic Chief Of State AND Commander And Chief.
And after that, you should probably get around to the most important apologies of all. The apologies that matter more than any others. The apologies that may well make their recepients only despise you more. You should write authentic letters of apology to every mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, grandmother, grandfather, and friend of any of the (now nearing) 1300 men and women in the armed forces who died in this war. And I don't mean that you should tell the appropriate people on your staff to write a letter for you to sign and them to xerox 1300 times. I mean sit at your desk in the oval office, and write that letter. It should probably be a few pages long if it is to adequately express your remorse and guilt for being responsible for their loved ones' dying for a lie. For them having to bury their loved ones. For a parent having to outlive their child. For a little kid that won't remember his/her father when he gets older. For a wife who has become a widow all too soon. For a youngest child who lost the older brother they always looked up to. For a person who lost his/her best friend. Just to scratch the surface. Tell them how profoundly and deeply sorry you are for your lie.
I realize I'm asking a lot from a guy who answered 'Oh, absolutely' when asked by Barbara Walters if he, knowing what he does now, would do it[the war] again. If, however, you do get all that done, you could try taking a nap. Apologizing for presidential mistakes is an extremely exhausting practice. Pictures of baggy-eyed Nixon and even more baggy-eyed Clinton come to mind. Yeah, other presidents have usually apologized for their fuckups. But now that I think about it, you may not be able to take a nap. I'd be astonished if you could sleep knowing what you know.
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