Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Was the era of error foreign and domestic the fault of a veteran Massachusetts Republican political operative known as a team player and associated with administrative planning?

The Bush move was typical of the no fault administration which he heads in name and Dick Cheney actually operates.  The king can truly do no wrong and whatever it takes to alter the impression that anything in the form of a mistake could ever be made must be accomplished with swift dispatch.

The question to be asked regarding Donald Rumsfeld is this:  How much actual autonomy does he possess?  In short, if a fresh face were installed to take the controversial defense secretary's place, would the nation's basic Iraq War policy change?  

Would Bush replace Rumsfeld with someone amenable to listening to and perhaps acting upon other views?  Would Dennis Kucinich and Scott Ritter be summoned to the Pentagon to present their views?

The final question should bring immediate laughter to anyone soberly studying this administration and its dual tragic patterns of deception and error.  The game plan put initially in place was that of the Project for the New American Century.  

This is the gang that became staunchly hawkish during the Vietnam War while positioning themselves safely away from the battlefield.  William Kristol became a vociferous rooter from his perspective as a Harvard University student while that inveterate cold warrior Dick Cheney impregnated his wife following his ninth and final student deferment, insuring that he would not be called.  

Cheney later explained that he had "other priorities" during the period.  The sons of America's ghettos and barrios took the places of Cheney, Kristol and other sideline hawk cheerleaders.

Donald Rumsfeld was installed in his position in the first place due to his reliability as a reliable member and advocate of the Project for the New American Century.  Iraq was a stated priority even before Bush came into office after an election victory assured by the judicial tandem of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.  

Dick Cheney had urgently pounded the warm drums as a member of that same neoconservative think tank and was concerned enough about the issue to leave Halliburton as CEO to function on the conglomerate's behalf from a position where he could do it more good, along with Bechtel as well the cause of globalization and the New World Order.  

His commanding post as nominal vice president signified in reality one of actual ruler from his private bunker as global czar.

The issue that should have been crystal clear from the time that the Cheney-Bush ruling junta rushed to war in Iraq was that the basis for changing the picture was to remove Cheney, Bush and their major ruling partners in misadventure from office through the prescribed constitutional measure of impeachment.  

Impeachment is the constitutionally prescribed method of redressing such egregious grievances as exist under Cheney and Bush.

It is time to remove not a junta spear-carrier alone, but as part of the team that handed out the spears in the first place and ordered them to be used post haste in defiance of international laws that America helped write.  Certainly Rumsfeld should be removed, but it must finally be realized that removing him alone can be as intrinsically insignificant as replacing Andrew Card.