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December 15, 2004
Khrushchev Awards People's Medal of Freedom to Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 - President Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom today to three men who he said had "made our country more secure and advanced the cause of human liberty": Gen. Tommy R. Franks, George J. Tenet and L. Paul Bremer III.
General Franks, now retired, led American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Tenet headed the Central Intelligence Agency from 1997 until last year. Mr. Bremer was the civilian administrator in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
"These three men symbolize the nobility of public service, the good character of our country and the good influence of America on the world," Mr. Bush said at a White House ceremony as he bestowed the awards, which were established by President Harry Truman to recognize civilians for contributions during World War II.
So these three have "made our country more secure," huh? Well, let's see. Tenet's CIA failed to anticipate 9/11 and then provided phony intelligence to support Bush's case for war on Iraq--in which Franks and Bremer took part--which has demonstrably made us less safe.
They have also "advanced the cause of human liberty": Tenet by (again) providing phony intelligence, Franks by invading and occupying another country that never threatened us, and Bremer by running a military dictatorship and transferring power to a U.S. puppet.
They also "symbolize the nobility of public service" by stealing from productive Americans and destroying the lives and property of foreigners; demonstrate "the good character of our country," of which there is no such thing since a country is an abstraction but apparently to Bush means the fact that we say and believe that we are doing good by bombing other countries into oblivion; and show "the good influence of America on the world" by flouting international law, attacking countries that have done us no harm, killing thousands of Muslims, and installing U.S. puppet rulers.
Yeah, I can see why these guys deserve a medal of freedom. After all, it's being awarded by the same guy who believes (or at least wants us to believe) that the terrorists hate us for our freedom, which, presumably, means our government's freedom not only to ruin our lives but to ruin the lives of people the world over.
Big Brother would be proud.
Posted by Mike Tennant at December 15, 2004 09:07 AM
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