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OFFICE OF THE CHAIRPERSON
Press Statement
13 January 2009
ILPS DENOUNCES THE VILE RECORD OF BUSH
AND REMINDS OBAMA OF THE PEOPLE'S OUTRAGE
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) denounces as totally
reprehensible the desperate attempts of the outgoing chieftain of US
imperialism, George W. Bush, to define his own eight-year record as less
vile than what it has been.
He admits as one of his mistakes his premature proclamation of “mission
accomplished” less than two months after the fullscale US invasion of Iraq
in 2003. He considers as mere disappointment that no weapons of mass
destruction were found to validate what had been in the first place a
deliberate lie and mere pretext for the US war of aggression.
George W. Bush vainly tries to evade the fact that he is the biggest war
criminal in contemporary times. He is culpable for the biggest kind of
terrorism, which is the war of aggression. This has resulted in the
massacre and wounding of millions of Iraqi civilians, the destruction of
the social infrastructure and US control of the Iraqi oil and other
economic resources.
The 9/11 attack, which killed close to 3000 people, was heinous on its own
evil account. But it pales in comparison to the far more monstrous
murderous proportions of the Bush crime of aggression. The howling success
of the Bush regime lies in manipulating the 9/11 attack and the wars of
aggression against Iraq and Afghanistan to override the frauds that made
Bush “win” two presidential elections.
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George W. Bush also makes a
futile attempt to evade the fact that he is most culpable for the current
financial and economic crisis that has swept the US and the entire world
capitalist system. He tries to minimize his culpability by saying that he
inherited a recession which resulted from the bursting of the “hightech
bubble” in 2000 and that he generated many months of economic growth
before the “housing bubble” started to burst in 2006 and lead to the
mortgage meltdown and the current level of the crisis.
To bring about the present gravity of the crisis, Bush has been
responsible for enlarging the US national debt at a dizzying rate and
raising it to the highest historic level, for incurring the highest trade
and budgetary deficits, for letting US financial and nonfinancial
corporations to run wild in speculation and for pushing down the wage
level further and then overburdening the American families with loans for
housing, cars, daily consumption and school enrollment.
In addition to the financial crisis and the two wars of aggression, Bush
must be confronted with many crimes that have been committed in the name
of a “global war of terror”. These include the curtailment of democratic
rights in the US and abroad, the use of extrajudicial killings, acts of
so-called rendition, illegal detention and torture, arbitrary “terrorist”
labelling of progressive forces and leaders, the corruption involved
war-related contracts and US military interventions and sponsorship of
state terrorism in the Philippines and elsewhere.
The ILPS reminds the incoming chieftain of US imperialism of the breadth
and depth of the outrage of the American people and the people of the
world over so many crimes perpetrated by Bush and his accomplices. Letting
these criminals enjoy impunity and letting the consequences of their
crimes persist under the blanket of bipartisanship can only undermine the
credibility of the Obama regime and its ability to cope with the
overwhelming troubles passed on to it by the outgoing regime.### |
