Remember back in the pre Great Recession time of 2006 when George W. Bush proclaimed, "I'm the Decider"?
Fast forward four years and the US media news cycle was temporally dominated by the release of a book by former President George W. Bush, and the public propoganda that George Bush was a decider while in office. The book and its accompanying media blitz is designed to continually influence how George W. Bush would be viewed by Americans and to manipulate public opinion on the disastrous and costly wars his administration started in Iraq and Afghanistan.
While the book, Decision Points, endeavors to depict George W. Bush as a decisive leader in difficult times, recently released State Department cables by Wikileaks reveal that world leaders such as Hosni Mubarak, the long time authoritarian leader of Egypt, viewed George W. Bush as being easily manipulated by political handlers and subordinates.
Fast forward four years and the US media news cycle was temporally dominated by the release of a book by former President George W. Bush, and the public propoganda that George Bush was a decider while in office. The book and its accompanying media blitz is designed to continually influence how George W. Bush would be viewed by Americans and to manipulate public opinion on the disastrous and costly wars his administration started in Iraq and Afghanistan.
While the book, Decision Points, endeavors to depict George W. Bush as a decisive leader in difficult times, recently released State Department cables by Wikileaks reveal that world leaders such as Hosni Mubarak, the long time authoritarian leader of Egypt, viewed George W. Bush as being easily manipulated by political handlers and subordinates.
According to a US State Department cable approved by the US ambassador to Cairo, Margaret Scobey,
“Mubarak viewed President Bush as naive, controlled by subordinates and totally unprepared for dealing with post-Saddam Iraq, especially the rise of Iran's regional influence."
"On several occasions Mubarak has lamented the US invasion of Iraq and the downfall of Saddam. He routinely notes that Egypt did not like Saddam and does not mourn him, but at least he held the country together and countered Iran.
While the assessment of an Obama appointed US ambassador to Egypt has to be taken into consideration, the blunt assessment of George W. Bush by a long time leader in the Middle East strongly contradicts the public message that Bush and his handlers were selling to the American public in the spring of 2006. This only proves that the louder a politician speaks about something in public, the truth could not be further from the truth.
In stark contrast to the myth perpetuated by Bush in his book and the propaganda during the run up to the attack on Iraq in 2003, the decision to attack Iraq was made by his chief political strategist Karl Rove for political reasons and Dick Cheney for business reasons. The US Department cable downloaded by Bradley Manning and posted by Wikileaks supports this viewpoint.
In stark contrast to the myth perpetuated by Bush in his book and the propaganda during the run up to the attack on Iraq in 2003, the decision to attack Iraq was made by his chief political strategist Karl Rove for political reasons and Dick Cheney for business reasons. The US Department cable downloaded by Bradley Manning and posted by Wikileaks supports this viewpoint.
It is no wonder that the American politicians like Joseph Lieberman, Diane Feinstein, and Mike Huckabee to name just a few want to prosecute Julian Assange and call the release of documents by Wikileaks as electronic terrorism. These less than honorable politicians want to avoid any responsibility in their support of the War in Iraq and the ensuing one trillion dollars it has cost the American people.
A clip from the Daily Show in 2006 puts a comedic spin on the public rhetoric of Bush being "The Decider" while in reality, Bush was controlled by his subordinates.
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