Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Then the Elder Bush was in power.  Now the Younger Bush is in power.  Never forget that war was launched twice in Iraq on the basis of lies and deception.  Bush the Elder had arranged billion dollar loans to Saddam.  Weapons were flowing all over the place to our so-called Middle East allies.

It appears that our foreign policy is dictated with no fairness and logic.  Look at Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet.  Henry Kissinger backed this ruthless dictator.  Kissinger could be sent to The Hague as being complicit with the war criminal Pinochet, who was finally indicted for his war crimes.

With the US trade deficit scaling dizzying heights, with the US cost of the Iraq War generating a staggering national debt, we have to look at what is going on in the US that needs immediate correction.

While Bush chases around the world using a lot of gas in Air Force One he continues trying to stage the Social Security system, so people can have personal bank accounts and stock investments.  

Bush refuses to accept the reality that his brainstorm didn't fly - even if he did; of course, all at taxpayer expense to 50 different get-togethers of carefully screened audiences.  The crowd was carefully handpicked since Bush would not know how to answer critics.

Katrina's New Orleans hit demonstrated to the world how ill prepared the nation that has been meddling in the affairs of other countries for years is to handle its own affairs.

Haven't you seen it demonstrated in real life situations that busybodies who have made total wrecks of their own lives can't wait to tell other people how to manage their affairs?  Well, that's the USA in a nutshell; only the US taxpayer is caught in this messy Administration's miserable account.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer headlined a February 14, 2006 front-page story, "Millions in Katrina Aid Wasted.  Taxpayers Paid for Pricey Condos, Tattoos, Massages".  

The story revealed, "The government squandered millions of dollars in Katrina disaster aid, including handling $2,000 debit cards to people who gave phony Social Security numbers.  Federal authorities paid $375 a day for beachfront condos."

To show how little they cared about protecting the US treasury money, they squandered hundreds of millions putting Katrina victims on luxury cruise ships.  The ship company that had contributed heavily toward Republican campaigns benefited.  

The Greek government's offer of free use of its ships for Katrina victims was turned down.  The US government's excuse was, "Oh, we negotiated earlier with this other cruise ship company."

The Wall Street Journal showed how Bush's Middle East meddling is backfiring, explaining, "Iran Plays Growing Role in Iraq, Complicating Bush's Strategy".  To suggest that Bush has any strategy is a joke!  Bush is an error driven, low level college student who rose to power in a questionable manner.  

The article goes on to say, "Bush Administration officials who promoted with Iraq envisioned Americans reshaping the country in their own image after the war.  Instead, the reshaping is increasingly being carried out by Iran."

It explains why.  "Iran's influence is most apparent in Iraqi politics where a Shiite dominated coalition just nominated a prime minister with ties to Tehran."  Who was it that said, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we start to deceive!"

Bush wants to extend the tax cuts to his rich buddies while cutting even the "meals on wheels" to feed the poor.  He's got to be kidding when he claims to talk with his "other father".  Some of us have serious suspicions about whom Bush is really communicating with in view of his track record.  It is replete with disaster concerning whatever he touches.

Remember that the US has the biggest crime record of any nation in the civilized world.  No wonder Court TV is so popular.  It has so many crime cases to draw upon.

Ann Rule, who goes into enormous detail on criminals and crime sprees, is the nation's number one crime writer.  Identity theft is a popular American pastime.  Credit card scams cost banks billions.

Let us not forget the killers who engineered the World Trade Center tragedy had received US passports, demonstrating the inefficiency of our immigration department.  

It is past time to impeach.  If this tarnished Administration can applaud what Bush rants about in his State of the Union Message we are all in trouble.  Vote them out!