Now, That’s a Murderer

I’m listening to Doug McIntyre’s program this morning and his interview with Vincent Bugliosi. Mr. Bugliosi is plugging his new book accusing George Bush of being a murderer and laying out the case for his prosecution. Talk about summer reading. Keith Olbermamn must be peeing in his pants waiting to get his hands on an advanced copy.

Throwing out the M-word where Bush and the Iraq War are concerned is like dropping the N-word in the middle of an Obama rally. Come on, we can’t have a political discourse if you begin by reducing the conversation to a point I, as a proud conservative, can never go.

I hate that our men and women have died in this war, in any war for that matter. But, war is hell and kids do die in combat. But they also liberated concentration camps and countries invaded by the devil incarnate during WWII. Not to mention freeing the slaves during our own Civil War, and liberating us from King George.

Did Bush lie? I don’t know. I don’t think her purposely “lied,” but I’m sure he was all too happy to believe “truths” that later turned out to be false. Is Bush a murderer? Absolutely not!

I came across this headline today that stopped me dead in my tracks and actually had my mouth agape at my computer:

"Robert Mugabe Militia Hacks, Burns Alive Opposition Leader's Wife"

THAT, Mr. Bugliosi is a murderer. Robert Mugabe, like Saddam Hussein, Hitler and Stalin before him, is a murderer.

George Bush, in our perfected 20/20 hindsight, did not make all the best decisions, had some bad assumption, and yeah, he won't make anyone's Top 10 US Presidents list. But George Bush is no murderer ... and Saddam Hussein had to go.

At the end of the day I hope we can all agree that the world, especially the Iraqi people, is better off without Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, the underlying tribal hatred within Iraq is stronger than anyone believed possible, and has lead to more problems and issues than we had anticipated, and can deal with. Agreed, we did not handle the post-Saddam portion of the war well. But Bush is no murderer.

I look forward to history’s take on the Iraq War 50 years from now. W, to his credit, stopped the next "Hitler" in his tracks, but he will never be given credit for the lives that were not lost to the torture and rape chambers; to the bombs that will never be sold to terrorist groups and used against innocents; and to the ethnic cleansing that will never happen.