Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

The same holds true of former Halliburton CEO and neoconservative point man Dick Cheney, who after running out of college deferments was compelled to impregnate wife Lynne to avoid Vietnam service, and relishes denouncing Iraq War critics by questioning their patriotism in the tradition of Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon.

As Bush's popularity plummets below the 30 percent level he desperately seeks to turn the tide by using historic occasions to make a fallacious case for the necessity of America remaining in Iraq in hopes of turning the tide.  After all, his patrons at Halliburton and Bechtel as well as throughout the corporate global community are relying on him.

It was anything but surprising that Bush used July 4, the day to celebrate America's independence, to construct a fallacious analogy between the Revolutionary War and the current conflict in Iraq.

Bush told an audience of Air National Guard members in Martinsburg, West Virginia, "Like those early patriots, you're fighting a new and unprecedented war - pledging your lives and honor to defend our freedom and way of life."

Just as Joseph Welch asked Joseph McCarthy, it must be asked of George W. Bush if he possesses even a tiny shred of decency.  

Bush and Cheney falsely link the Iraq War to a fight for freedom.  Is that why a phony premise was established to launch the war?  

There were those weapons of mass destruction and Washington's neoconservative establishment was so fearful of imminent attack that Bush and Cheney would not even allow the UN weapons inspection team under Sweden's Hans Blix to finish its job, despite Blix's earnest request that he be granted more time.

Even while Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, a former ally of the Reagan-Bush-Cheney neocons, was destroying weapons to avoid impending American attack, the forces pushed relentlessly forward.  

The battle was commenced with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld proudly unleashing his "shock and awe" aerial assault.  Rumsfeld assured us that America's bombers would be delivering "smart bombs" designed to avoid civilian casualties.

Rumsfeld should tell that to the Iraqi people.  At last count the death toll lay somewhere between 600,000 to 1 million.  We need others to calculate since Bush and Cheney seek to avoid any link to death, carrying the strategy as far as avoiding photos of coffins  showing dead Americans returning from Iraq.

The situation in Iraq is now so bad that it is being said that citizens believe the only way to protect themselves in their own homes is to bear arms.  While Bush and Cheney seek to deposit blame for a nation in the violent throes of civil war on Al-Qaeda and other allied terrorist groups, knowledgeable Middle East observers have noted that the resistance is in the form of an insurgency.

This insurgency resulted from resistance to occupation by America.  Before America invaded Iraq experienced Middle East hands warned, 1) that Iraq was a nation dangerously split between Shiite and Sunni elements, and 2) that Iraqis as well as Middle East Muslims in general did not want America to occupy Iraq, believing that it would serve as a prelude to an all out effort to ultimately rule the entire region.

Joseph Lieberman along with other strident neoconservative voices such as William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer thirst for more Middle East conflict.  Iran is their next designated invasion target.

It should be remembered that after America secured its independence from Great Britain that the nation's first president, also named George, but with the last name of Washington, delivered in his farewell address following two terms in office a fateful warning to his countrymen to "avoid foreign entanglements."

Bush, Cheney and neoconservative devotees seek to expand America's dominion in pursuit of a New World Order, using the nation's military might to economically dominate through globalism, grabbing the loaves while leaving the vast majority of the world citizenry to fight for the remaining crumbs.

Bush and Cheney are the antithesis of democracy, the polar opposite of the rule of freedom.  Their neoconservative New World Order embodies the same kind of economic disparity between rich and poor that they have sought to achieve in America through the brutal implementation of unjust tax cuts along with dictatorial enforcement by fierce and unrelenting assaults on the Bill of Rights.  

No, Mr. Bush, for you to link yourself to freedom in any form is the supreme insult.