Tunis Hebdo, Tunisia

"I can just see Jacques Chirac rubbing his hands together as he addresses both Bush and his vassal Blair, saying: 'I warned you, I told you so!' And he's not the only one ...

"Say Good Bye to America's Double-Barrel Chest and Deceit!

By M'Hamed Ben Youssef

Translated By Kate Brumback

November 13 – November 19 Issue

The Republicans' double defeat at the polls in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, without a single flaw, was predictable. The American people and especially the silent masses realized that they were dealing with neoconservatives that had lied on every important issue. Hadn't they dragged through the mud the reputation of the great Lincoln's America by causing 600,000 Iraqi deaths, according to the medical journal The Lancet? Didn't the White House risk a general destabilization of the region simply as an act of retribution? They also facilitated the rise of Iran as a top-rank regional power. Soon to be equipped with nuclear weapons, Iran is a good counterweight to the Sunnis, 19 of whom perpetrated the drama of the World Trade Center.

The rout of the U.S. hawks came as a relief to the entire world. International opinion sees them as evildoers, some of whom should appear before a war crimes tribunal. Furthermore, who didn't warn the White House to avoid attacking Iraq? Who didn't want the U.S. to renounce their false accusations against Saddam Hussein when it suspected him of having weapons of mass destruction? And, recently, sensing the outcome of the elections and in order to try to save the Republican cause, Bush went so far as to arrange it so that not only did Saddam's death sentence be handed down to coincide with the midterm elections, but there would also be a draconian drop of almost 21% in OPEC oil prices. This was done to cajole the American voter, and was based on the idea that domestic issues invariably decide the outcome of midterm elections.

This time, however, it was the disastrous military intervention in Iraq and the loss of several thousand GIs, along with at least 15,000 badly wounded and expenditures of about $74 billion a year, which were the determining factors. And add to this the failure of the war against global terrorism. Never has the world seen so many attacks.

But in contrast to his usual habit, bin Laden - who still walks free - this time decided to release a fiery speech to give a backhanded push to the Republicans. Wrongly or rightly, the jihadist Islamist leader seems convinced that the Americans are in too deep in Iraq, and that they won't withdraw until they are at the level of a second Vietnam … I can just see Jacques Chirac rubbing his hands together as he addresses both Bush and his vassal Blair, saying: "I warned you, I told you so!" And he's not the only one ...

As for the fall of Donald Rumsfeld - while we wait for that of the vulture John Bolton, the U.S. representative at the U.N. - it is all in the order of things. He's just a fall guy. Someone had to pay for all the broken pottery, and more importantly, the dark and ineffective defense strategy. On this matter, the only thing left for Bush to have done would have been to utter the refrain of the banana republics to anyone who would listen: "I was duped."

Nevertheless it was he who, on the day after September 11, called on his pro-Zionist brain trust to provide him with ideas for attacking a Middle Eastern country, a matter of satisfying his Texas hatred! We know the outcome. The actions that followed were almost identical to the disasters committed by certain units of Hitler's armies. From now on, how will the weakened master of Washington behave and how will he get along with his conquerors, the Democrats?

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