Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who courageously declared, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Of course, as informed American citizens see what is going on ever since this White House resident entered the White House under a dark cloud of distrust and dismay due to voting irregularities nothing has gone right.

First off, before 9/11 the Bush Administration was discussing Iraq and disposing of Saddam, after 9/11 conveniently took place, the weapons of mass destruction scenario played well at the UN with Colin Powell dramatically reading some forged documents and striking fear into U.S. citizens.  

But it was George Bush himself in his State of the Union Address unashamedly telling Congress and the American public that the U.S. had proof that Saddam Hussein had been developing nuclear weapons. The war industries were listening with rapt attention.

If the U.S. launched a war against Iraq companies like Halliburton and Bechtel would reap billions of dollars in profits.  After all, war is big business and the U.S. supplies more arms around the world than any other nation.  Selling the war like a clever TV ad, it was labeled "shock and awe."

Using the National Guard as a back door draft, the nation was ready to roll to war against Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, against Saddam's nuclear weapons potential.

As the bombs blasted Baghdad, Bush was captured on White House video exclaiming bluntly, "Feels good!"

When he had been asked if he consulted with his father, the ex-president George H. W. Bush, he shook his head, explaining that he consulted with his other father, apparently referring tour heavenly Father - God.  

Then the Iraq War hoax was revealed - no threat from Saddam's mass destruction weapons as they were non-existent, no threat from nuclear weapons in Iraq.  This leaves an important question that must be asked in any civilized government.

Why wasn't Bush immediately confronted by impeachment for launching a war against rules of warfare under the Nuremberg Code and the Geneva Conventions?

Having made such a horrifying mistake in launching a war without justifiable cause, why didn't Congress end Bush's reign of error?  

How many more must die before a semblance of ethics, a semblance of respect for our Constitution, sets in and true patriots end this nightmare regime that has been responsible for such staggering deaths in Iraq, displacement of Iraqis (2 ½ million fleeing for their lives), and U.S. service personnel with 3,800 U.S. service personnel dying and a dispute about even showing their flag-draped caskets on TV?

The stain of responsibility is there on this dreadful Congress that keeps funding the Iraq War.  

If you have one shred of belief in democracy, respect the 70 percent of Iraqis who want the U.S. out of Iraq.  They also want complete control of their 80 oil wells, their biggest national asset.

The U.S. wants a distribution contract deal giving foreign investors control of 63 of the 80 oil wells on a long term lease arrangement, allowing Iraqis complete control of only 17 of their own nation's oil wells.    

As if that distribution deal isn't unfair enough, the U.S. leadership still boasts about delivering democracy and freedom to the Iraqi people while the eyes of the world gasps with shock and awe, accompanied by righteous indignation and anger over the unneeded Iraq War.