On the Record

August 18, 2003

People may have short memories, but fortunately there’s a written record of history. Lest people — even those on our side — think the push to remove George W. Bush from office is about the “16 Words” or Democratic vendetta over the Supreme Court’s 2000 election decision, let me direct your attention to the Wage Slave Journal’s “George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil”:http://www.wage-slave.org/scorecard.html, which has been faithfully updated since Bush took office. Soon I’ll be putting a nice link up on all my web site skins; if you’re so inclined I suggest you keep it front-and-center as well.

Also, as I mentioned before I have been reading Joe Conason’s _Big Lies_. I definately encourage you to pick this book up, perhaps now, perhaps by clicking on this Amazon affiliate link. Conason explodes many myths about liberalism, but my favorite so far is his response to claims that conservatives are tough on terrorism while liberals are big ol’ softies.

It was, after all, Ronald Reagan who sold arms to Iranians (even then a “state sponsor of terrorism”) to secure the release of American hostages. But you knew that already. Did you also know that, as part of the same deal, Reagan asked Kuwait to release Hezbollah terrorists who had attacked French and American embassies in Kuwait? John -Total- Terrorist Information Awareness Poindexter apparently made several trips.

It was also Ronald Reagan who lifted sanctions against Augusto Pinochet — sanctions *Carter* put in place because Pinochet would not turn over terrorists suspected in a car-bombing assasination here in Washington DC.

It was George H. W. Bush who gave permanent residency status to Orlando Bloch, a Cuban exile leader suspected of bombing a Cubana airlines flight, killing seventy-three civilians.

And it, of course, is George W. Bush who has abandoned Afghanistan to chaos and re-occupation by _Al Queda_ to pursue a costly war in Iraq because Hussain might at one point have been thinking about possibly starting a weapons program in the distant future.

As Conason says:

bq. The conservative Republicans of the Reagan-Bush era spoke loudly about “fighting international terrorism.” Their record was outstanding for its ineptitude, hipocrisy, and politically motivated leniency: coniving in arms deals with the Iranian sponsors of Hexbollah and Islamic Jihad; sponsoring secret attempts to secure the release of the Dawa’a terrorist prisoners from imprisonment in Kuwait, lifting sanctions on Chile despite the regime’s refusal to extradite the perpetrators of a terror bombing in Washington, D.C., favoring a Cuban terrorist mass murderer with presidential favors for domestic political reasons. Their record was an international disgrace. And they still have the gall to call their opponents “soft on terror.”

Woo.

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