An Open Letter to Ellen
What you did was morally wrong. Here’s why.
By now, millions of Americans are aware of your affable little interaction with former president George W. Bush at a recent Dallas Cowboys football game. Your subsequent joke-laden justification revolved around civility - the notion that people with incompatible beliefs should set aside their differences and just get along.
But this really has nothing to do with "beliefs." This is about actions. If there’s one thing you should know about Bush, it’s that he and his administration used fabricated "intelligence" to invade Iraq, slaughter a million people, and destabilize the entire region, leading to incalculable suffering, destruction, misery, and to the formation of ISIS. Haven’t you seen that movie Vice?
(An estimated death toll for the so-called "War on Terror" is 1.3 million, all of which could be reasonably attributed to the Bush administration. But let’s be generous and go with an even one million. That’s roughly 330 9/11s.)
