Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

"It was worse than I anticipated," Brunner said of the report.  "I had hoped that perhaps one system would test superior to the others."

Brunner then illuminated readers further.

"At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand held devices to plug false vote counties into machines," Brunner said.  "At boards of educations they were able to introduce malignant software into the servers."

This has long been considered the reality of the corruption in the Ohio voting machines that placed George Bush back in Washington's White House.

This tragic fact was revealed the same week that 90 current and former major league baseball players, some of whom had been raking in millions, had used steroid drugs.  

Where have all the legitimate baseball heroes gone?  At one time the normal American family included a man, a woman and children.  That was a long ago yesterday.  Today the reality is that the normal American family consists of a single mother with children.  

Crime reigns supreme in many U.S. cities with Detroit, the "Motor City" being referred to in the Wall Street Journal the other day as "Murder City" headlining a column by Bill Cosby.  

New Orleans, Miami, St. Louis, Cleveland, some of America's choice cities are crime ridden.  Could it be that the economy which, while Bush was in charge favored the very rich with generous tax cuts and fabulous subsidies for wealthy farms while children's health care and disability is denied the needy.

Have the social injustices become the lifestyle the U.S. soldiers are dying almost daily to promote in the Middle East?

After delivering the weapons of mass destruction fright scenario, Bush received an ovation from a gullible, big business Congress that had been bought off by special interest lobbyists.  Hastily the U.S. launched the ill-fated Iraq War.  

The shock and awe advertising tag they slapped on this war to deliver us from the "axis of evil" in Iraq proved false.  Not once did Bush talk about ending this deceitful war.  Instead the non-existent weapons threat that got us into this quagmire became an idealistic scenario to bring democracy and freedom to Iraq.

What did Bush and his horrifying robot Congress really do for Iraq?  Dare we ask?  Dare we let such arrogance, ignorance and war monger mentality rage on?  Estimates claim 600,000 to 1 million Iraqis deaths, 3,800 U.S. service personnel dead, with their bodies coming home in coffins but rarely shown on TV.  

Add to that over 55,000 wounded, requiring physical, mental and financial aid, which many of them are not getting - and tragically many in desperation have committed suicide.  

With what is going on in the U.S., is the U.S. committing economic suicide?  Other nations think so and let the dollar fall while U.S. inflation soars.

Bush and his cronies with the vast help of Senator Joseph Lieberman delighted in passing an amendment calling the Iran National Guard terrorists.  To accompany this Iran War campaign, Bush announced to the world that we were in effect on the precipice of World War Three.  If we didn't immediately stop Iran's nuclear war ambitions, he ranted on, we would be very sorry.  

But a sudden news flash stopped Bush in his war tracks.  Our intelligence shot Bush's red hot rhetoric down the tubes.  Our U.S. intelligence announced that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons development program in 2003.  

We discovered that Bush knew before this announcement to the public that Iran had stopped its development in 2003.  

Why haven't we investigated and impeached George Bush for getting us into the Iraq War and now threatening to launch a war with Iran when he knew better?

Bush has said that he wishes to hit the lecture circuit once he leaves the White House.  The last thing we need is to have more saber rattling and misinformation spread around the world by the worst chief executive in U.S. history.