Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz and Perle carried on about what a glorious crusade they were launching to oust Saddam Hussein, a bad guy, and bring freedom and democracy to Iraq.  What really happened was that, instead of bringing democracy, they have clearly demonstrated how little they know about history.  

Religious clashes dating back thousands of years will not vanish through the actions of U.S. planes dropping bombs all over Iraq.  A John Hopkins estimate of approximately 100,000 Iraqis dead, the infrastructure of much of Iraq destroyed and what amounts to a Civil War in progress - how dare anyone declare that the Iraq War has achieved anything but total chaos, death and destruction?  

With around 2,000 U.S. service personnel dead and another15,000 injured, haven't the Americans had enough of tragic Bush misdeeds?  Can't they see through the deceitful spin control strategy of Karl Rove as he replays the old Nixon strategy line that was so prevalent in the Vietnam War?  

You are either a patriotic American and with us or at the very least an enemy pawn or at worst a traitor if you oppose us!

This dangerous trend began long before the 9/11 tragedies.  Administration officials were talking about invading Iraq, so when 9/11 death and destruction emerged, the acts fell within the circumference of previous planning.  

To whet the American appetite, fear had to be introduced with a direct threat.  Lies and forged documents proudly proclaimed that this Administration was compelled to protect us from those notorious "weapons of mass destruction" that we now know never existed.

Sure, Saddam was ousted!  But there never has been an investigation into what the U.S. was doing supporting Saddam with loans, as well as U.S. oil purchases.  

In Tampa, the elder Bush arrived when I lived there.   Vividly I recall his insisting that a $3 billion loan was needed for Iraq.  Conveniently, it was explained that Iraq desperately needed foodstuffs, which also conveniently could be supplied to Bob Dole, known frequently as the "senator for sale", for his home state of Kansas.  

The scientists at Honeywell, located in Clearwater, Florida, were outraged at the prospect of some of their advance weapons systems being used by killer dictator Saddam, whose reputation had been established long before.  

Two years into the Administration of the elder Bush's Administration, when Saddam Hussein asked U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie what America would do if he invaded Kuwait to stop that nation's slant drilling, which involved stealing Iraq's oil, he was told by Glaspie that this was an Arab-Arab problem and we would do nothing.  

We know how the U.S. ultimately brought other nations together to form a coalition for the Gulf War.

Now, with the phony "weapons of mass destruction" frenzy prompting us into a second Iraq War, we can look back and see the U.S. policy on conducting Middle East wars in two instances was fraught with sloppy propaganda pitches that anyone seeking the truth could see through.

With the staggering national debt, with launching a war that even Bush was finally forced to admit was launched on false claims of threatening weapons that did not exist, with the hideous Vietnam War syndrome teaching us nothing, we witnessed death, destruction and tragic mistakes of our U.S. Air Force dropping bombs on civilians.  

Don't we have enough evidence to proceed with the prompt impeachment of George Bush and ultimately sending him back to his Crawford, Texas ranch to cut his weeds?