Are There Any Ethics Left in How Government Operates? 
Vice President Cheney delivered an emotional farewell, crediting Ford with healing the potential divisiveness in the United States if Nixon had not been pardoned.
The question that troubles me is who gave Gerald Ford the power to pardon a president who had launched war in Cambodia on his own personal agenda, minus the approval of Congress?
This Cambodia bombing spree was waged in a similar fashion to Bush's Iraq War debacle. There is no healing for either Nixon's Cambodia onslaught or Bush's Iraq War horror.
To hear political right talk show hosts rant endlessly on about Gerald Ford healing the nation after Nixon's outrageous conduct, one might almost envision God in the person of Gerald Ford granting absolution or some form of divine forgiveness. To pardon the bombing and killing during Nixon's awful run as president, in my humble view, could only come from Almighty God.
To my knowledge God hasn't revised the 10 Commandments, erasing the "Thou shalt not kill" commandment, to pardon Richard Milhous Nixon. Of course, it is unwise and shortsighted to generate one-tenth of hate toward Nixon. But what makes common sense is to insist upon accountability, whether it was Nixon's war and killing debacle or the current Iraq War nightmare.
Did Bush imagine in his 8 years as White House resident that he could erase 5,000 years of Iraq political history? No. I don't think Bush thought that.
I think Bush's plan was to put the prestige and power of the U.S.A. into Iraq. Could it be that Bush was using the "weapons of mass destruction" scenario to strike tremendous fear into the gullible American public via a media blitz?
When no weapons were found, the Bush Administration ran up the flag, declaring we were now in the Middle East to bring freedom and democracy. That pitch always draws applause, and by staying in Iraq long enough the U.S. might gain control of one-third of the world's oil supply, which lies in Iraq.
That fact the number one issue in the 2006 election was the American public's demand to get U.S. service personnel out of Iraq has been ignored. Instead, Bush is currently asking for thousands more troops to go to Iraq.
By ignoring what the U.S. public polls say about getting out of Iraq, as his popularity slides down to the 30 percent range, George Bush demonstrates clearly that he is ignoring democratic government.
Hypocrisy rules at the very moment he insists that U.S. service personnel are dying for the noble cause of delivering democracy and freedom to Iraq. All the while the Iraq civil war drags hopelessly along.
Why is this happening? Could oil be the answer?
KEYWORDS: Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Nixon Pardon by Ford, Nixon Cambodia Bombing, Bush Iraq Policy
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