Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

With the dawn of the Atomic Age and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki demolition it was even more imperative to recognize the necessity of stopping war monger nations and leaders to not be allowed to let their delusions of grandeur and greed rush the end of the world in a scenario of self destruction.

The Geneva Convention's International Rules of Warfare are not intended to do anything more than save human life from destroying itself on a massive scale.  The great philosopher George Santayana said that those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are destined to repeat them.

Tragically all the death and destruction of the Vietnam War obviously taught George Bush and his robot Republican Congress nothing.  Even Robert McNamara had the courage to write in his book that he recognized we could not win the Vietnam War, but sadly he did not reveal this while the war raged and he served as Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense.

Furthermore McNamara questioned the patriotism of those who stated with courageous bluntness that the war was not winnable, such as Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Halberstam.  Down deep McNamara knew the same thing.  The war was killing the spirit of the U.S.A. and sharply dividing the country.

The ignorance of the rabid ranters who wrongly tried to compare World War Two with Vietnam questioned the patriotism of all who disagreed with their warped, sick vision, which cost so many lives and demolished so much of Vietnam, betraying the true patriotic tradition represented in the sacrifices rendered by those who fought in the earlier conflict.

Now we have been victims of lies and misrepresentations from the mouth of none other than White House resident George Bush.  

The State of the Union Address where he struck fear into U.S. citizens with the phony claim that the U.S. had proof that Saddam Hussein was getting yellow cake uranium from Niger to develop nuclear weapons was part of a blatant rush to war and one of the greatest disasters in U.S. history - the Iraq War.

When the "weapons of mass destruction" high-powered propaganda pitch and "nuclear mushroom cloud" scare tactics provided phony scare tricks, how did Democrats and Republicans respond to being victims of the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American citizenry?

Recognizing their complicity, they couldn't bring themselves to rally to impeach Bush.  Instead they proved they were as guilty as Bush by not immediately condemning and impeaching Bush, Bush the Bungler, who continues his war of error.

Bush boasts relentlessly on TV about the economy being relatively sound.  But he never once mentions how much of this economy is based on war.  A war put on the biggest credit card costs in U.S. history.  

The national debt that we must lay at the feet of George Bush is greater than all the national debts combined since the nation was founded.  But to hear Bush you might think he wasn't a bungler but a great economist.  

By going along with Bush, the Iraq War rages on.  Bush complains that the Iraqis haven't signed the oil distribution contract.  This contract the U.S. oil executives want signed gives leases to foreign investors for 63 of the 80 Iraq oil wells.  

Iraqis want control of all their oil wells, their main asset.  The Iraqi people do not want U.S. occupying forces in their country, as demonstrated by polls showing that 70 percent of Iraqis want the U.S. military to leave.

With utilities not functioning in many cities and continuous fighting and killing every day, they flee to Iran, Syria and Jordan.  Some two and a half million have thus far fled.  The Iraq death toll numbers between 600,000 and 1 million.  

U.S. service personnel deaths number 3,800 and over 55,000 combatants and non-combatants have been wounded.  The nation that launched the Iraq War on false pretenses has lost its credibility as a beacon of freedom and democracy.

Alan Greenspan put Bush and his buddies in proper perspective when he wrote in his book, "The Age of Turbulence", "The Iraq War is about oil."

This is the Republican legacy and Bush can't run or hide from what he has done.  And blame spineless Democrats too!  

The Exxon-Mobil oil CEO who quit with a nearly $400 million retirement bonus derived his wealth from Nigerian oil.  The Nigerians are desperate for the necessities of life; food, water, education while the U.S.A. oil barons live in the very lap of luxury.  They ever had it so good.

Burma, known now officially as the Union of Myanmar, has oil wealth and its military dictatorship is facing tens of thousands of Buddhist monks demanding democracy.  Chevron obtains its oil from this nation.

Amy Goodman, in an October 4 Seattle Post-Intelligencer article, explained:

"Fueling the military junta that has ruled for decades are Burma's natural gas reserves, controlled by the Burmese regime in partnership with the U.S. multinational oil giant Chevron."

Condoleezza Rice served as a Chevron Board Director between 1991 and her appointment in 2001 as Bush's National Security Adviser.  Chevron named one of its oil tankers after her.  Dick Cheney also had substantial contacts with the oil giant since Halliburton, the company he formerly headed as its CEO, had multi-billion dollar contracts with Chevron for field services.

Burma delivers gas to Thailand through its Yadana pipeline.  This pipeline was built with slave labor forced into servitude by the Burmese military.  

Get the picture about where U.S. oil comes from?