Joe Hack

Whats this ? The possibility of some justice at last over the Iraq war ? Surely not !  President Bush’s newest attack on civil liberties is an executive order which states that any American citizen who threatens the peace and stability of Iraq and undermines efforts to promote reconstruction and reform there is liable to have all their property and interests seized without warning by the Treasury department. What constitutes ‘threatening peace and stability’ is left deliberately vague, cynics might suggest to enable the order to be used by the Bush administration as a weapon against his critics. The Executive Order entitled ‘Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq‘ was signed on the 17th of July and acts as an amendment to the draconian, illiberal and unpatriotic ‘National Emergencies Act’.

While there has been the a widespread outcry against yet another attempt by Bush to use the apparatus of the state to crack down on protest and free speech, a few have pointed out the undeniable irony that under this order high ranking members of the Bush administration, and indeed Bush himself, are the only ones that should be really punishable. After all, he has demonstrably and by any objective standards ‘threatened the peace and stability of Iraq” and by his mind-boggling incompetence has “undermined efforts to promote reconstruction and reform”. So can we confidently expect the Treasury to carry out a series of dawn raids on the Whitehouse and Bushs luxury Texas ranch to seize all of his property and assets ? And if not, why not? 

Surely it can’t be the case that there is one law for Bush and another for his critics ?  Not in the good ‘ol U.S. of A. ? Seriously folks, the hypocrisy on display here is gobsmacking given that the persons in America responsible for ripping Iraq apart and, through their incompetence, plunging it into civil war are Bush and his neo-con cronies. Anything that anyone else may do or say pales into total insignificance when compared with their culpability. They are the ones who invaded Iraq in the first place and they are the ones too dumb or arrogant to admit their mistakes who now continue to sow chaos and destruction in the face of all-time high public opposition.

We truly do live in an Alice in Wonderland world, don’t we ?

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