Manacled Freedom And Innuendoes

Just a couple of footnotes today on the State of the Union affairs last night. Questions, actually.

My first question: How can I trust a man who extolls lofty ideals such as the freedom of democracy, yet who steals this very freedom from American citizens even as he speaks?

Case in point: Bush's Bullies arrested Cindy Sheehan last night.

Was she at the Capitol to attend Bush's speech illegally?

No. She had a personal invitation from California's Congresswoman, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, who gave Sheehan a ticket to the grand affair.

Sheehan's crime? Bush's Bullies didn't approve her choice of clothing.

Now, how can I trust a President who mouths the words freedom of democracy, yet who shackles a woman's wrists in handcuffs, cages her in a gaol of hell, then slams and locks the prison door just because he doesn't like her outfit?

My second question will take a bit more ink to unearth the facts behind Bush's innuendoes.

After his opening accolades to Coretta Scott King, he began the meat of his address in paragraph four with three myths which have been proven false.

In other words, he began a 55-minute speech with 3 lies. Can I trust a President who does that?

Paragraph 4, Innuendo Number 1: "On Sept. 11, 2001, we found that problems originating in a failed and oppressive state 7000 miles away could bring murder and destruction to our country."

Clarification: Were we led to assume he was referring to Iraq? Yet, it is a fact that the culprit was bin Laden, the terrorist, who ordered the attacks. Bin Laden, at that time, was in Afghanistan. Why then did we attack an innocent country?

Innuendo Number 2: "Dictatorships shelter terrorists . . . "

Clarification: Not necessarily so. Certainly, there were few, if any, terrorists in Iraq until America opened Iraq's borders and invited them in.

Innuendo Number 3: "Dictatorships shelter terrorists . . . and seek weapons of mass destruction."

Clarification: Obviously, Bush failed Logic 101. Or he thinks we have. If he wasn't palming myths off on an unsuspecting public, he might have spoken more candidly: America, a democracy, has weapons of mass destruction and India, a nation which elects its leaders, has weapons of mass destruction. One of the few countries which did not have weapons of mass destruction was the dictatorship: Iraq.

I find it very, very difficult to believe that the rest of his address contained any elements of truth when he opened it by trying to dupe me.

We could rehash all 65 paragraphs of his speech. See if there are any nuggets of truth mixed in with all that fiction and false innuendo, but why bother?

Uncovering the color of Sheehan's t-shirt is more interesting than listening to Bush's lies.
Manacled Freedom And Innuendoes © 2006 Chaeli Lee Sullivan