TOTAL FAILURE OF EXECUTIVE RESPONSIBILITY IN THE OVAL OFFICE

TOTAL FAILURE OF EXECUTIVE RESPONSIBILITY IN THE OVAL OFFICE

1). Failure of intelligence.

With all of its massive, sophisticated, detailed, utterly invasive and pervasive intelligence machinery, which delves into every significant area of endeavor and activity, the United States government, under the presidency and leadership direction of George W. Bush, allegedly has failed completely to have significant foreknowledge allowing any real foresight ahead of the fully evolved and irreversible world economic crisis.

If we are to accept, and if Congress and the Senate, are to accept that as truth, then we must conclude that the intelligence system has utterly failed, and must be put completely into question.

2). Alternatively.

If we are unable to prove that to be true, and facts speak to the contrary, then we must conclude a far worse conclusion. It would mean that the intelligence system, its senior personnel, on their own, or in conspiracy with the executive staff and/or senior officials and/or the knowledge and complicity of the office of the President of the United States America, sought to conceal that intelligence and to avoid acting on that intelligence when and if it can be proven to have become available.

3). This leads to the third point to be considered in this matter of intelligence and executive responsibility in relation to leadership in the current world economic crisis.

We have ample public evidence of a continuing failure to accept and to publicly declare any real sense of responsibility on the part of any of those whom we might consider sufficiently privy to intelligence facts, involved in the intelligence gathering and analysis, senior officials of the Treasury Department making decisions requiring such facts, and the executive staff and presumably the office of the President of the United States of America.

Only Mr. Greenspan, former Treasury Secretary, has been sufficiently noted as having come forward as to error on the part of his own judgements, and policy decisions. We have not had any similar and noteworthy declarations from those currently still in power in any significant capacity that we would have to consider as having been privy to special, advanced, and privileged economic information as to any error, failing, or wrong doing on their own parts. From what we have read and heard in the public press this substantively includes the President of the United States of America.

4). The President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, has continued to assert the rightness of his policies, beliefs, and judgements on the matters pertaining to economics and economic policies. We have seen no significant admission of having made mistakes, bad judgements, inadequate or false intelligence misleading decisions, or wrong policies on the part5 of the Presidency and its administration. In fact we have public reporting of facts concerning the President insisting on the rightness and fundamental good of decisions, judgements, policies, intelligence, foresight and planning as to the national and the world economy. This from the senior executive leader of the world’s most powerful economy, and privy to the world’s most powerful and extensive intelligence gathering and analysis system. What we have instead is the failure to accept and acknowledge executive responsibility for events that provide facts sufficient to prove the necessity of that acknowledgment. Instead we have continued, statements of what appear to be blind belief, and total denial.

5). In addition to that failure to acknowledge responsibility there is a lesser issue related to this matter, but not an insignificant issue for the United States of America, its Senate and its Congress, concerning the nature and scope of the policies enacted under the direction of the executive office and under the direct leadership responsibility of President of the United States of America George W. Bush. That is the failure to advise Congress and the Senate, and in light of that advisement as to policies, the people of the United States of America, as to the true meaning of economic policies being put into place affecting the world economic system. In particular we must bring to light the matter of “globalization”. This term was never properly delineated and would have led to open public contention in the national and world political arenas if it had been given clear and unambiguous definition.

The people of America and the people of the world community have been led to believe that “globalization” is to be defined as the opening of the world economy to full participation by all of the world’s nation members and their people. What is not defined in this definition is the fact that that participation was being constrained to participation in accordance with principles, judgements, policies, rules, and the economic philosophy of the United States of America. “Globalization” was being actively defined by the administration, in the enactment of covert and undeclared politics and practices at home and abroad, as what amounts to a forced conversion of the world economic community to one and only one economic system and one and only one way of doing business in the world community. That conversion led in accordance with the publicly stated beliefs about economic policy of the executive office of the United States of America, under the leadership of the chief executive of the United States of America, George W. Bush.

Summary statement:

Clearly something is wrong with America.

Wake up America.

If the presidency is refusing to take responsibility for what is happening then American society, by means of its Congress and Senate, its elected representation must seek to find and make public the facts, and to act responsibly to assure that that type of irresponsible action and its impact on America, and on the world, never happens again. We needed at least a clear admission from the leader of the world’s leading economy, which the world was being convinced to follow in good faith and in hope of realizing the positive values and results that were being promised to it, that the intelligence, judgements, policies, decisions, leading up to the world economic crisis were fundamentally wrong. We needed an acknowledgment and explanation, at the very least, as to what went wrong and how it went wrong and how that wrong will in future be prevented so that it never happens again. Something went wrong in America and ultimately it is the Chief Executive, the President, not Mr. Greenspan from his retirement, who must step forward and bear the full burden of responsibility for what went wrong and for how it went so very wrong.

Failing that it is up to Congress and the Senate of the United States of America to act as it is empowered to do, according to its responsibility in the matter, considering the gravity of the matters in question as to America at home, America abroad, leadership and credibility, now and for the future. It is up to the Congress and the Senate now to declare America’s public responsibility and how change can be brought about so that the massive tragedies and any similar crisis might never happen again, and certainly not without foresight and appropriate, consultive, informed, intelligent, timely legislative action.

Robert Ezergailis