Don't Worry. I'm not printing the hour long speech. Only a few short excerpts:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29645
Only relating to Saddam Hussein, illustrating how Bush's speech intentional misleading and unbelievably misuse of twisted grammar and language, of *The Past Perfect Tense* dogmatically and dramatically manipulated Americans and the rest of the World into believing war against Iraq was justified.
After 9/11 older people will remember the Republican Administration and the Media tried convincing Americans and the world Saddam Husein was responsible for 9/11.
They will also remember Donald Rumsfeld's stupifying statement when during the invasion American forces couldn't find any WMD's . "We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat". (Somewhat?)
Plus, it also needs to be mentioned that before the invasion Swedish diplomat and head of the United Nations Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission spent 1 year searching Iraq for WMD's.
This despite the fact British Prime Minister Tony Blair presented areal photographs of a trailer in the desert claiming to be a factory of WMD's. This was later proven to be a hoax, a fraud and faked by Tony Blair on behalf of Bush and the Republican Administration.
So when it came to the hapless Hans Blix who after 700 inspections throughout Iraq did not find any or any evidence of any WMD's, Bush and his Administration unfairly and viciously vilified and mocked him throughout the media.
51 days after Bush's State of the Union speech America attacked Iraq.
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So what am i talking about? What is this devious con and manipulation in Bush's speech? What do I mean by the use of twisted grammar of The Past Perfect Tense justified going to war?
Below are the excerpts I am referring to, that duped the American public into a war, which led to the destruction of one of the most beautiful ancient cities in the world and to the sufferings of millions of people that continue to this very day...and to the economic depression America faced immediately afterwards.
Let's see if anyone catches on.
Bush on Saddam and Iraq:
Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to disarm of all weapons of mass destruction.
The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax, enough doses to kill several million people.
The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin.
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard, and VX nerve agent.
U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents.
From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs.
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program.
He had a design for a nuclear weapon, and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb.
The dictator of Iraq is not disarming.
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SO THE QUESTION IS: If Saddam had had all of these different kinds of weapons of mass destruction to use on his enemies and the United States, but didn't have them NOW then why did Bush attack Iraq?
I researched many News Agencies, journalists, and Political Commentators. There is not one I found who addressed or commented on the President's use of the The Past Perfect Tense 'HAD' as a legitimate reason for starting a war then... am I the only one in the world who noticed and questioned this intentional misuse of grammar and language to justify war? What if someone 50 days before the invasion noticed it and questioned it back then? We might have a different and better world today.
In class we studied the Iraq war. When I presented this to my professor she just laughed and sneered I was being picky. I don't think so. We are always being fooled by Washington and criminal corporations.
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Now we have President-Grab-Her-Pussy-Trump who has taken the art of deceptive language
to a new and destructive level .
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind". George Orwell
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