Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Taking his cues from the PNAC globalists who dominated him, beginning with Vice President Dick Cheney, the key to gaining ultimate control of the Middle East commenced with a "shock and awe" campaign against the same Saddam Hussein who had previously been a notable Reagan Administration ally.

The same Donald Rumsfeld who had helped provide the weaponry and technology that enabled ruthless dictator Saddam to gas the Kurds of his northern provinces now began beating the drums for invasion, along with Cheney, whose aggressiveness reached the point that experienced State Department hands that did not share his view of the Iraq picture were forced out.  

Cheney made visits to the CIA to lobby operatives there to provide skewed intelligence reports on Iraq, a move unprecedented in U.S. history for a Vice President.

Not long after Bush donned his flight suit and declared "Mission Accomplished" on that aircraft carrier off the coast of San Diego the drums began to be sounded concerning an invasion of Iran.  

Computer warrior George Will, one of the many neocon hawks who opted out of service in Vietnam, proclaimed on ABC Television's "This Week" that Iran was the next nation posing danger to the U.S. to which we needed to turn our attention.

The same propaganda techniques unleashed against Iraq, culminating with false information derived from international con artists Ahmed Chalibi, are now being retooled for use against Iran.  

It will be recalled that international flim-flam artist Chalibi, who is subject to arrest on site if he sets foot in Jordan, served up regularly at high prices, reports of Saddam Hussein aggressive nuclear activity to the delight of neocon computer warriors Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, who like Dick Cheney "had other priorities" regarding Vietnam.  

Perle and Wolfowitz, who were known as "the crazies" to many within Reagan Administration inner circles, played their hand for all it could muster.  

Cheney eagerly stirred the pot and next thing we knew Colin Powell was delivering before the United Nations a somber report of what lay ahead for the U.S. from Saddam Hussein's nuclear arsenal, that perilous "mushroom cloud" that Condoleezza Rice spoke about.  Fox News trumpeted Powell's presentation as "virtuoso" from beginning to end.  

It will also be recalled that when Hans Blix led a UN weapons inspection team into Iraq in an attempt to determine if the alleged "weapons of mass destruction" existed, the frightened neocons decided it was time to act fast and invade before actual facts overwhelmed their case for war.  

When France's President Jacques Chirac declared that it would be a good idea to coolly examine the facts before unleashing an aerial barrage the yahoos and Fox zombie brigade gave us "freedom fries" and declared that France and Germany, which had expressed similar concerns, were lands of "wimps" alongside Sweden, Hans Blix's country.

Now we see the same techniques being unleashed against Iran beginning with a steadfast refusal of United States representatives to communicate directly with those of Iran.  The full court press is on to demonize the latest nation in the grand parade of enemies posing imminent threats to the U.S.  

For those excessively timid Democrats who have been so fearful of undertaking a responsibility mandated by the U.S. Constitution of impeaching executive officers committing "high crimes and misdemeanors," which abound in a confluence of illegality making the Nixon Administration look like a Sunday school picnic, have a look at the current Newsweek Poll.

The Newsweek Poll reveals that George W. Bush holds a 30 percent approval rating, the lowest in history of that polling barometer.  This is lower than where Nixon stood at the peak of his Watergate woes prior to his resignation.  Bush's support network consists of little more than brainwashed Fox zombies and assorted ruthless business types.  

The hour is at hand.  The Newsweek Poll reveals that 58 percent of the respondents want George W. Bush to simply "go away."  

Congressional Democrats, can we make it any plainer?  In Bush's regime of shameful and dictatorial misrule he has taken us from a surplus to what will shortly be a $10 trillion deficit, the largest in the planet's history.  

This ruthless regime has taken the country to war on a tissue of lies.  Some 655,000 Iraqis who were alive before those initial "shock and awe" attacks exist no longer, not to mention those U.S. service personnel coming home in coffins that the regime does not want you to see.

This is an Administration of shame and corruption that must be stopped immediately before it can generate more damage internally and globally.  Members of Congress act responsibly and proceed immediately consistent with your Constitutional responsibilities.