Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Sunday morning, February 18 on CNN, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spoke bravely and bluntly:  "Every U.S. soldier and sailor is going to be taken care of, but the Iraq War policy is the worst political blunder in American history."

To hear the disgusting applause spectacle for the State of the Union Message by the architect of the worst political blunder in U.S. history, who launched the outrageous Iraq War, was truly revolting.

Where is the shame for acting upon lies about he U.S. being threatened by those infamous non-existent weapons of destruction?  The media blitz of lies that launched the horrifying deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, over 3,014 U.S. service personnel dead, a total of 50,505 U.S. combatants and non-combatants injured as reported by Time February 12, 2007, tells a tragic tale of death and destruction.  

A million Iraqis have escaped to Syria, while another million have left Iraq for Jordan.

To applaud one second after such a provable rotten record of a colossal, tragic failure is sick!  As the eyes of the world focuses on such losers, they fear for their own safety and well they should.

Ignoring international laws governing rules of war, they marvel at how swiftly U.S. members of Congress chase around to Iraq to personally look at what their government has done to a nation that has never harmed or threatened us.  Wow!

The limp argument goes, "Iraq's Saddam Hussein was a bad dictator who killed his own people."

This is true!  But what is also tragically true is the question nobody has been held accountable for.  Why did the U.S. arm and support Saddam when he was killing his own people who defied him?  We knew Sadddam was killing the Kurds with poison gas.  Why did the U.S. supply weapons of every description to kill Iranians?  Is that the way to win friends and influence Iranians?

Carnivorous animals, once they get the taste of blood, don't stop the kill until they joyfully lick the last drops of blood from their prey.

Are the war mongering, killer mentality members of Congress determined to continue the U.S. participation in the sectarian civil war raging in Iraq till more blood is shed?

In the tragic Vietnam War nightmare many individuals were never held accountable.  This current crop of Republican robots is now desperately seeking not to be held accountable for the Iraq War debacle.  Their tarnished leader refuses to be held accountable.

George Bush is repeatedly making preposterous claims that we are achieving great progress in Iraq.  Bush's blasphemous claim is that he was consulting with his "other father."  This certainly begs the question - Where in reality was George Bush really getting his counsel?

There is no logical link of anything positive in any counsel that directed Bush along the Iraq trail of terror and error.  A couple of time worn clichés are as accurate today as they were centuries ago.  "By their fruits ye shall know them" and "Satan is the father of all lies."

Even an atheist will be forced to acknowledge that no "good force" was guiding the ship of state as Bush leaped aboard the U.S. naval ship off San Diego, decked out in a flight suit, declaring before TV cameras "Mission accomplished" as the world watched in disbelief and horror while the death toll in Iraq continued substantially rising.

Now Republicans are up to their old face-saving devices, trying frantically to stop any debate about Bush's latest foreign affairs inspiration - 21,500 more troops will solve the problem.  

To destroy debate on this life and death decision is undemocratic - the much-heralded reason - for troops fighting and dying to accomplish what Bush and his Republican robots insist is democracy.  You can't deliver democracy anywhere on earth if you destroy it on your own nation.  

Wise up, you Republican hypocrites.  Let the voice of the people be heard.  Didn't the 2006 vote mean anything to your warped ways of governing?  

Did Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich's winged warning shake you up?  Kucinich said, "The United States illegally attacked and invaded Iraq in a war based on lies.  Now these same lies are being used to fund the Iraq War!"

What can be done?  Give real democracy a chance!  Forget trying to control Iraq's oil.  Conduct an international conference at the UN, bringing together the religious and political factions in Iraq.  

Let foreign policy experts bring forth suggestions to bring about peace.  Let the people of Iraq have complete control of their assets once they agree to peace.

The track record of the U.S. ignoring international law on conducting war, attempting to take over business world wide, was exposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the warning this Administration has not brought people or prosperity to Iraq.

Stated simply, Republicans are trashing democracy while boasting that we are bringing democracy to the rest of the world.

Instead the Bush Administration has delivered death, destruction, debt and a worldwide nuclear arms race.  What a sad and tragic legacy!