Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Mistaking the role of a U.S. president as a kingship where the king can do no wrong, don't expect apologies for plunging the U.S. into the Iraq War quagmire.  Once the truth was revealed that many U.S. citizens had been duped into thinking the U.S. was being threatened by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the Administration made no apologies for the lies leading the U.S. into a new dark ages.

Instead Bush boasted "Mission Accomplished," two words that will linger in infamy as long as time endures.  

With much ceremony Bush declared that the U.S. was bringing democracy and freedom to Iraq and the entire Middle East while bombs blasted Iraq's infrastructure and killed Iraqi civilians, in an effort they kept claiming was to wipe out terrorists.  

This has gone on four years, daily damaging the reputation of the U.S. as a genuine democracy, whose only desire was to bring freedom, hope and peace to the world.

Iran, which borders Iraq, wasn't buying this claim.  How could Iranians watch the U.S. demolition Administration hit Iraq, and not defend their borders and Iranian lives?

The entire Middle East is enraged with the spectacular U.S. Iraq invasion.  All this while White House Republican Administration refuses to acknowledge the horror of their actions.

Every action has a reaction.  Not even those off the wall religious right fanatics dare deny that logically the victims' descendants never forget those infamous Christian Crusades!  At this frightful hour in human history men are working day and night inside a conversion facility outside the Iraq city of Isfahan.  

It can be said that nuclear ambitions are linked to the chemical attacks during the eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

Who supplied Iraq with those weapons?  The British government, the U.S.A. and other nations were supplying killer Saddam with every conceivable weapon with which to kill Iranians.  

Why?  That is the question!  Apparently it is payback time for the U.S.A.'s cozying up to Saddam Hussein.

During Ronald Reagan's run he was referred to as "The Great Communicator."  Reagan said he would balance the budget.   He instead tripled the U.S. national debt and they named a major Washington airport after him.  

If plunging the U.S. into debt is the criterion for naming airports, then every airport in the U.S.A. should be named after the great spender George Bush as he plunged the U.S.A. into the deepest debt of all presidents, should we therefore name every airport after Bush in honor of his monumental achievement?  Is this logical?

Reagan's emissary to Iraq was none other than the man referred to as "Rummy," Donald Rumsfeld.  The photo of Rumsfeld smiling and shaking hands with Saddam as a deal was brokered to supply a killer dictator with weapons to kill his enemies is burned into the collective memory of the Arab world.

With all of this killing going on all these years along with the tragic eight-year war between Iran and Iraq and two U.S. wars in Iraq under two different Bushes father and son, the end result is not democracy or freedom.  It is death, destruction, and debt.

Meanwhile self-righteous Republicans joined by religious right fanatics refuse to acknowledge their responsibility in this monumental failure.

Not since the Christian Crusades has such hate been built up in the hearts and minds of the victims of this political misadventure.  U.S. politicians are determined to have Iraq agree to an oil deal granting 63 percent of Iraqi oil well rights on a lengthy lease, with the Iraqis obtaining rights to 17 percent of their own oil wells.

Under Saddam Hussein Iraq nationalized all Iraq oil rights.  This was written up December 5, 2007 in the Los Angeles Times.  With Israel representing less than 1 percent of the world's population and the U.S.A. 5 percent or thereabouts of the world's population, it would be wise to seek diplomatic solutions to dealing with every nation instead of looking to war as a solution.

The noble precept "Love your neighbor as yourself" could be also stated, "Love other nations as your nation."  That could be the wisest insurance policy protection of all.

The reason for the ongoing nuclear arms race was evaluated in a March 29 Los Angeles Times article:

"Two decades ago, an Iranian town was devastated by Iraq's chemical weapons, but the world superpowers looked the other way.  Some see this as the impetus for Iran's stockpiling of such weapons - and the possible designs on nuclear capability."

The article explains about the deadly impact of chemical weapons, such as utilizing mustard and possibly nerve gas agents, all of which were outlawed since World War One, had on Iranian victims.  Their eyes burned, some became blind, and their skin bubbled.  Their burning flesh had to be scraped off with razors.  Patients understandably panicked.

In Tabriz, Iraq 700 crying patients crowded hospitals, wheezing, coughing.  Houses became uninhabitable.  Even 20 years after Saddam's chemical weapons attack many homes in Tabriz, Iraq are uninhabitable.  

As Iran stockpiles nuclear arms, the question must be asked - Was it wise to supply killer dictator Saddam with weapons to hit Iran?  

Was it wise to launch the Iraq War based on lies with no legitimate threat posed to the U.S.A.?