Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

"The Senate Intelligence Committee has released a report saying there's no evidence that Saddam had a relationship with al Qaeda.  Thank God we found out before he did something crazy."

Providing insight into the American public's intelligence is a poll showing that 50 percent of Americans still believe that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.  The median IQ level states registering the lowest figures were big Bush backers in the 2004 election.  T

he lower the median IQ level the higher the Bush total, as exemplified by the two strongest Bush states registering levels of 85 in Mississippi and Utah respectively.

When Hugo Chavez spoke at the UN he referred to George Bush as the devil.  Condoleezza Rice said she would not dignify his statement with any response.  Let us logically dissect how one might fairly conclude whether anyone is in league with the Devil.  The Bible bluntly declares that the devil is the father of all lies.

Bush announced to the world that the U.S. had absolute proof that that the U.S.A. was threatened with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  He went even further, declaring that Iraq was developing a strong nuclear capability.

Bush Republican backers might claim Bush was not lying, but was simply given erroneous intelligence.  However, Bush repeatedly claimed he was not consulting with his father, the Elder Bush, but with his "other Father," obviously meaning God.

To make such a colossal blunder as to wage a deadly "shock and awe" war, as the Administration blatantly boasted, then later learn that all those Iraqis, Americans, and others in coalition forces died because of erroneous intelligence is a catastrophic tragedy.

Logically, whether you are of the Jewish, Christian, or Muslim faith and you declare you are consulting with your personal perception of God, consider this.  If you make a monumental mistake after this consultation of the proportion of the death and destruction in Iraq - it could only be blatant blasphemy to attribute such misguided direction to any divine force.

So take it from there, Mr. Bush, and reconsider your colossal claim of consulting with God.  It has become glaringly apparent that you were consulting with the evil force if any such consultation to which you allude occurred and prompted you to launch the Iraq War.  

Why?  Because the Bible says clearly that the Devil is the father of all lies, and you presumably believe in the Bible and purport to be guided by its teachings.

When both Bush and Rice refused to intercede to stop the war between Hezbollah and Israel they now know that they inadvertently helped Hezbollah, the very thing they did not want to do.  

With over a thousand Lebanese dead, including innocent civilians, men, women, and children, and with Israel sustaining the loss of over a hundred dead, finally Israel recognizes its own vulnerabilities.  Repeated Israeli assassination attempts on Hezbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah having failed, he is now stronger than ever with 20,000 rockets remaining.  Israel's attacks helped Hezbollah enormously.

With U.S. supplied multi-cluster bombs Israel would bomb and demolish a 10-story apartment building if they thought only one Hezbollah suspect resided there.  Israel united the Lebanese people behind Hezbollah as they saw their nation torn apart.  Civilian men, women, and children were killed while roads, bridges, and residences were destroyed.  

U.S. planes delivered cluster bombs, asking Israel not to kill civilians while Bush and Rice watched.  But the entire world was also watching as the U.S. abandoned its role as a neutral Middle East peace broker.

Now the Arab world is outraged at what happened in Lebanon.  We have no reliable record of how many prisoners of war are being held in Israeli jails without charges or trials.  Strangely this is now what the U.S. has been doing in Guantanamo as well as numerous prisons around the world where torture is claimed by those who have endured these mostly secret escapades.

When our foreign diplomats speak some of them are tactful.  Take for example Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf.  Richard Armitage of the U.S. State Department demanded that Pakistan join the U.S. war on terror.  

Musharraf explained, "The intelligence director (of Pakistan) told me that Armitage said, `Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age if you don't join us.'"

Perhaps the Stone Age would be safer than the nuclear age with Bush and this Republican Administration in power.  

On CBS' national news on Sunday, September 24, it was reported that the Iraq War has increased the threat of terrorism with $500 billion the current total cost of financing wars there and in Afghanistan, robbing U.S. citizens of money for health care and repairing the crumbling infrastructure of the nation.  

Isn't it idiotic to keep funding the coffers of the Pentagon war machine, killing people for no legitimate reason, and generating hate against the U.S.?  

Wise up.  We have got to make these horrifying leaders accountable.  I won't advise torture as these Republicans have approved of, but just plain old ordinary justice, the kind so sorely missing under an unelected and unrelentingly predatory regime.

I believe 100 percent in a good force, a God, a deity, you name it, and I believe that we are all eventually going to be judged by a higher power than any court on earth.  But while on this plane of existence I do not believe we can "stay the course" as Bush demands.

We must somehow negotiate an end to this Iraq debacle and bring some peace and prosperity to Iraq, whose asset of one-third of the world's oil could provide peace and prosperity if the U.S. will dedicate itself toward this goal.