Bush’s phony ‘global democratic revolution’ is failing in Iraq.
by Justin Raimondo
As we approach the second anniversary of the “liberation” of Iraq – marked by the much-touted toppling of Saddam’s statue in Baghdad’s main square – a simple juxtaposition of photos reveals the utter phoniness of the American project in the Middle East. Of course, Antiwar.com was all over that particular deception as it was happening, but in revisiting it two years later, it is instructive to note that the same square was filled the other day by tens of thousands of Iraqis demanding that the U.S. leave Iraq forthwith. The myth and the reality are not merely divergent – they are completely opposed to each other in every conceivable way, and nothing illustrates this more dramatically than the rhetoric of our deluded president, who recently addressed U.S. troops in Ft. Hood, Texas:
“As the Iraq democracy succeeds, that success is sending a message from Beirut to Tehran that freedom can be the future of every nation. The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a crushing defeat to the forces of tyranny and terror, and a watershed event in the global democratic revolution.”
As radical Islamists– in league with Iran – tighten their grip on Iraqi society, George W. Bush’s glorious “global democratic revolution” marches on. What baloney! Our president, however, is undeterred by the facts: “The toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad will be recorded,” he averred, “alongside the fall of the Berlin Wall, as one of the great moments in the history of liberty.”
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