Chuck Pelto
So if it’s all about power, then the people who asked, “Why would President Bush invade Iraq and send thousands of Americans to their death without proof of an imminent threat? “What President would willingly destroy American lives and families. it just doesn’t make sense.” . . . they were just ignorant as to the power motive.
But according to you, it does make sense. If power is so seductive, then it’s possible Bush took a passive stance on the warning about “UBL determined to strike in US” . . . was seduced into invading a sovereign nation without provocation . . . was strategic in his relentless usurpation of civil liberties . . . and the Valerie Plame-type revenge and attempted silencing of critics . . . and the firing of federal attorneys . . . and the politicizing of the Justice Department . . . all because he lusted after power.
I think you’re right, chum. Bush did all those horrible things for the pathetic purpose of gaining power. Or am I trying way too hard to justify my criticism? Have I found myself pinned in a corner because my relentless complaints and accusations about Bush can’t be defended because he has no motive to do the things I say he did. And if he has no motive, then I have to make one up, and it has to be big and vague, otherwise it is too easily disproved.
Power . . . .ah, power.
