Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

That was Jacques Chirac.  Rather than the offbeat pacifist kook he was depicted as being by the yahoo talk show circuit presided over by drug addicted microphone cowboy Rush Limbaugh, Chirac was elected on a platform of dynamic capitalism and fell into the category befitting of traditional American conservatism.

Chirac did the unthinkable to the neocon war machine.  He wanted to wait until it could be determined that those weapons of mass destruction that Condoleezza Rice warned would generate a giant mushroom cloud over American skies could be verified.

Such a delay was unthinkable.  It was time to attack and occupy in the name of the New World Order, that amorphous group that functions within think tanks and major international corporations, you know, the likes of the Carlyle Group, Kissinger Associates, Halliburton and Bechtel.

Incidentally, did Americans actually elect any of the above organizations or their personnel?  Okay, then why are the above groups and their functionaries running the world?  This is a topic you will not hear the mainstream media discuss since it is controlled by the ranks of that same New World Order.

Not only did France request that America wait until the Blix team could finish its investigation.  Germany issued the same warning.  While France was being denounced as the land of quiche, which we are told that real men never eat without any explanation, as well as brie, which is also verboten, Germans were denounced as weirdoes who decided to en masse go the pacifist route.

Oh yes, and what about Sweden?  Weapons inspector Hans Blix was Swedish.  Sweden?  Well, aren't some of those folks into free love and other kinds of liberated sex?  Pat Robertson would be shocked to talk to such libertines!  Also, aren't a lot of those folks pacifists?  Our push button talk show host warriors were aghast over that!

Question George W. Bush, who would be lucky to find any of the above countries on a map, much less tell us anything about them, and you were asking for instant ridicule.

While all this frenzied activity was occurring en route to war a husky, tough talking ex-Marine as well as ex-weapons inspector named Scott Ritter asserted that he had been present as a UN inspector in Iraq when Saddam Hussein's war arsenal was being dismantled.        

While the typical response among neocon propagandists and their penchant for name calling would have been to label someone talking as Ritter was as a "wimp," after reflection they doubtlessly decided that such a tactic wouldn't work.

After all, Ritter was a jut-jawed, compact, broad-shouldered ex-Marine who looked like someone leading his troops into battle.  Could one therefore imagine Rich Lowry and Jonah Goldberg, those diligent computer terminal warriors, calling Ritter a wimp?

Neocons are dogged, however, and the adopted strategy was simple and straightforward.  They could not compete with Ritter on the facts so they began insisting that the ex-Marine's mind was not properly functioning.

So what would have happened if these French, German and Swedish spokespersons had prevailed and the shock and awe assault had been postponed until the UN weapons inspection team concluded its work?

Actually some 600,000 to 1 million people who are no longer with us could have been spared.

Meanwhile the Cheney-Bush team continues strutting like a convoy of roosters.  Meanwhile Bush declares that he is bringing freedom to a country that has been dismantled in a sea of death amid prevailing civil war, a conflict generated by falsehoods.