Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

The only fair way to assess the colossal damage, death and debt this horrifying administration is responsible for is to begin the impeachment process and investigate thoroughly every move that led to the Iraq War.

Weapons inspectors begged for more time to search for those alleged "weapons of mass destruction" that Bush dramatically declared existed in a State of the Union address.  As if the weapons score was not enough, the nuclear fear was thrown in for good measure.  The problem with this scenario was that it was not verified by any reliable sources.

As George Bush rushed into the Iraq War, the right wing media blitz orchestrated an endless parade of horribles.  If congressional members were gullible enough to give Bush the green light to go into the Iraq War, they have no excuse for continuing this debacle once the truth was out that there were no WMD's or nuclear threat.

Instead they went along with continuing this war, which so many nations considered no more than oil grabs at any cost.  

Why didn't Congress investigate this viewpoint of other nations?  Instead, the war rages on with 600,000 to 1 million Iraqis dead while another 2 ½ million have fled to Syria, Jordan and Iran, causing enormous problems all over the Middle East.  Over 4,000 brave U.S. service personnel are dead while over 55,000 combatants and non-combatants have been wounded.

Bush ranted on about the surge causing violence to slow down, congressional members sitting in those nice comfortable chairs in the House of Representatives could not quit leaping dramatically to their feet, applauding cheering and dishonoring themselves as the war continues without any deadline in for the withdrawal of U.S. forces in sight.

The euphoric cheers of the Republican congressional members during a time of severe debt and a hugely unpopular war that has enraged citizens of Middle East nations are reminiscent of the pathetic bread and circuses when Rome's Empire was in its final stage of destruction.

The Bush Republican zealots of Empire are holding their own version of Rome's bread and circuses with their celebratory ovation in the midst of a bogus leader claiming to be a man of the people who has lied with impunity, taking America to war on a tissue of lies, and generating the highest debt in the history of the planet that will soon swell to $10 trillion.  

What has the U.S. gained from staging a war against a nation that has never threatened us?  If you like disposing of tyrants why not go to Africa where genocide is occurring daily in the Congo and Darfur?

Was Alan Greenspan telling the truth when he said in his book "Tumultuous Times" that the Iraq War was about oil?  Why couldn't Congress care enough to ask Greenspan to testify about Oil and Iraq if this represented the real reason for launching the Iraq War?

Were congressional members applauding for the size of the national debt this administration has saddled future generations to pay off?  The national debt is larger than all the other national debts combined since the U.S. was founded.  

If you don't care about that massive debt, have you no feeling for your children or grandchildren?  Isn't this supposedly the party of family values?

Were you applauding Bush for the skyrocketing $10 trillion national debt?  As for Iraq's oil - whose oil is it?  It doesn't belong to Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Chevron or British Petroleum.  That oil belongs to Iraq and was nationalized under Saddam Hussein.  

Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran have nationalized oil.  The contract the U.S. wants Iraq to agree to is long term leases on 63 of their 80 oil wells.  Were you applauding this oil grab?

When the U.S. economy is in shambles in housing construction because 2 million homes face foreclosure, about the same as during the Great Depression - was that cause for you to leap to your feet in frenzied applause?

I looked upon this grim spectacle as some kind of pathetic horror show where people's values and morals are so twisted and corrupt that they fantasize they are doing good when they are engaged in frightful evil.

This is the administration that could not afford health care for this nation's children, while the Pentagon is spending $22 billion on armored vehicles for U.S. service personnel to protect these forces from terrifying bomb encounters in Iraq.  

Were those congressional members applauding for not passing health care for children?  It did save money, money that made tax cuts for the wealthy possible.

Is that why they leaped like jumping Republican robots to cheer?  

A recent New York Times/CBS News Poll revealed that 75% of American citizens believe that the country is seriously and fundamentally operating on the wrong track.  

While the American people made its emphatic opinion known, Republican congressional toadies cheered themselves while the majority of Americans hold a dim view of your pandering performance on behalf of the most selfish corporate interests while the needs of the majority of Americans are ignored.