Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Only a few days ago two women in Iraq were responsible for killing 91 in Iraq markets.  The Seattle Times on February 2, 2008 told that tragic story.  The 2 women allegedly had the Down syndrome.  Steven Hurst of the Associated Press wrote the headlined story:

"BAGHDAD - Two women strapped with remote-control explosives - and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers - brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring."

So much for Bush's much vaunted "troop surge."  McCain and Romney continue the war chant.  To be on the side of the Bush war quagmire and have the unmitigated gall with what is the Iraq War debacle, can any rational human being anywhere, Republican or Democrat, claim the Bush/Cheney Iraq War from the beginning to where it stands now say that it was achieving any positive goals.

Statistics tell us between 600,000 to 1 million Iraqis are dead, over 4,000 U.S. service personnel care home in coffins, while over 55,000 U.S. service personnel have been wounded, with many suffering victims committing suicide.  

2 ½ million Iraqis fled for their lives to Syria, Jordan and Iran, generating hell for these Iraq citizens and generating chaos with nations providing lodging, food and shelter in fleeing from a war the U.S. started.

Republicans are still backing a failed White House residency.  According to many, Bush entered an ill-gotten job with a surplus.  The gargantuan loser leaves a skyrocketing debt that has now surpassed $9 trillion and will soon reach $10.  

This was accomplished by the White House resident who chased around the U.S.A. to 50 cities, trying to manipulate Social Security into private accounts to provide retirement money for a Wall Street roller coaster ride.

The fact of the matter is the terrorists who on 9/11 hit the unguarded (Are you listening, Giuliani?) Twin Towers didn't come from Iraq.  Are you so off the wall, Mr. Bush that you didn't hear about their Saudi Arabia origin?  Why on earth were you recently doing that silly sword dance while Saudis watch?

Perhaps the most hypocritical of all of Bush's false claims was that he was a "compassionate conservative."  This claim is made while he delivers big tax breaks to the wealthy, cutting programs for the poor, including health care for children.  

Repeatedly Bush boasted of how well the U.S. economy was doing during his 7 awful years of error.  Now realty hits as Bush policies take effect over 2 million homes in foreclosure, the highest such activity since the Great Depression (apparently a mortgage re-run).

Food prices go up, auto prices rise as U.S. auto plants throw out workers, all with government approved outsourcing.  His only solution is to hand money out to keep people spending.  Is that money going to float out of thin air?  Or will that "gift money" just be added to the staggering U.S. debt.  Higher than all prior national debts since the U.S. was founded, higher than all previous debts combined.

Ann McFeatters in the February 3, 2008 Seattle Times put Bush's lousy legacy in sharp focus when she stated:

"Bush's foreign policy dissolved into gauzy nothingness, victim of the endless war in Iraq.  His legacy will be insisting, without factual basis, that democracy would spring `sui generis' to life in the Middle East and that Iran, Iraq and North Korea were an `axis of evil.'

"As for pursuing energy independence for years, Bush gave little but lip service."

The only mission Bush accomplished was to provide historians with all the facts they needed to write his legacy of fallen dollars and lives, letting the blood flow in Iraq, and for what?  To enrich Halliburton and Bechtel?  

Halliburton, as you may have heard, has recently moved to Dubai to avoid paying U.S. taxes.