We Knew You Were the Decider All Along
We Knew It Was You All Along
We all knew it was you
And not professor Yoo
Who gave the order
To torture
Like a coward you let those bad apples
Twist in the wind
When the order came from the top
Nobody there to tell them to stop
Nobody fired
But penises were wired
But we don’t torture
That’s against the law
And the torture memos
Are a horrendous flaw
In American law.
Howard P. Charman, MD 11-10-2010, 11-21-2011 and 5-19-2022
Note this excerpt from Amy Goodman’s 5-19-2022 interview with Nina Khrushcheva, great daughter of Nikita Khrushchev:
AMY GOODMAN: And finally, before we end, I wanted to play for you a comment made by former President George W. Bush. It was Wednesday. He spoke at his Presidential Center in Dallas about the invasion of Ukraine, but the speech took an unexpected turn.
GEORGE W. BUSH: The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean of Ukraine. Iraq. Anyway. I’m 75.
AMY GOODMAN: That’s video of Bush’s comments. They’ve gone viral. The former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner responded, tweeting, “George W. Bush just admitted to being a war criminal of the likes of Vladimir Putin, then laughed. Sickening.” Professor Khrushcheva, your response?
NINA KHRUSHCHEVA: Well, I agree. And actually, the Russians have been playing that clip and, you know, with the comments, “Look who’s talking.” So, that’s what their response is, is that, you know, “You’re lecturing us on our unjust war, and look what you have done all around the world.” And I think, you know, I go back, as I always do, to my former mentor, George Kennan, who wrote an article in Foreign Affairs, too, in — I mean, “too” — wrote an article in Foreign Affairs in 1995, calling it un-American principles. And so, you know, when America does things like it did in Iraq, then people like Kim Jong-un, people like Putin would go in and say, “Well, America can do it. Why can’t we?”
COMMENT: Bush admitted to torturing in his book Decision Points released 11-9-2010. The above astounding video clip demonstrating Bush’s Freudian slip totally confirms what we knew all along – that his actions represented a war crime. The Iraq war was his doing. But it flowed naturally from Clinton’s Congressional resolution calling for the overthrow of Sadam Hussain and Clinton’s brutal embargo which, as Madeline Albright admitted to Leslie Stahl, was responsible for the deaths of at least 500,000 Iraqi children. Scholars note that US has been at war most of its existence and has overthrown or invaded something like 70 countries. Mumia Abu Jamal and Steven Vittoria’s three volume work Murder Incorporated document this. David Vine’s The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts are also revealing.
Putin has launched an egregious and illegal brutal war of aggression which has essentially destroyed Ukraine. He learned well from the US. Hopefully, this can somehow be resolved, but all along the us has pushed for more weapons – much to the delight of our weaponeers. Biden has not too subtly hinted we are pushing for a prolonged war which would give Russia another Afghanistan and lead to Putin’s overthrow.
Howard P. Charman, MD 5-19-2022