Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Bobby Muller, Veterans for America President, has declared, "They are repeatedly exposed to high intensity combat with insufficient time at home to rest and heal before redeploying."

From start to finish, thus far the Iraq War was based on a series of lies.

To plunge U.S. service personnel into the thousands of years old Middle East religious conflict is unforgivable.  The difference in the Middle East cause for fighting with such tremendously intensity, must be stated simply and bluntly.  The Middle East religions are fighting to maintain their thousands of year's old, historical religious convictions.  

These fighters are fighting for their belief in their view of God and their desire to maintain this historic life style.  Not even the great Roman Empire, which lasted 600 years, could conquer Baghdad.  The Romans tried, but failed and raced back to Rome, defeated in their grand designs.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread!  The U.S. has a vice president who had suffered multiple heart attacks.  Dick Cheney had worked for oil companies.  Cheney still is receiving payments on his long term deals made before becoming vice president.  Is this  a conflict of interest?

The White House resident who freely admitted being a heavy drinker until he was 40 years of age is definitely no big brain trust. but has been making decisions.  If all this wasn't enough, John Yoo was the lawyer counseling Bush with his opinion of what was legally permissible in the matter of torture for suspected terrorists.

He was a 34-year-old Justice Department lawyer.  His parents were born in South Korea, but he was born in the U.S.A.  His key so-called legal decision has been that suspected terrorists can be "punished," which he refuses to define as torture.

In Esquire Magazine, June 2008, an article is asking this question and refers to Yoo in these blunt words:

"Is this man a monster?"  

The so-called terrorist suspect from Germany who was merely victimized for terror suspect hunters in Pakistan should answer if he considers John Yoo, the man who designed this policy.

Is Yoo a man or monster?

Pakistanis were given over $3,000 if they would point out terrorist suspects.  One Pakistani picked up the $3,000 and pointed to this bus passenger from Germany.

He was promptly taken to Afghanistan and tortured for 3 years.  Then when complaints were directed to the U.S.A., he was tortured two more years in Guantanamo.  Finally German officials demanded that the U.S. let this innocent man return to Germany.

This tragic story was told in great detail by the victim himself on "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV.  I couldn't help but wonder if John Yoo could go to South Korea, the original home of his parents, and write Nazi-style laws that could submit an individual to be tortured for years because somebody got paid to finger a terror suspect without a shred of proof that they constituted a threat to South Korea.

The U.S. under Jimmy Carter as president, believed in human rights.  John Yoo thumbed his nose at the U.S. Constitution.

Can't we ship John Yoo off to the International Court at The Hague, where his legal opinions and the torture they have generated bring him to justice?

Why isn't there a public outcry over how horrifying this terrifying administration has conducted itself?  Doesn't tossing international law aside and shredding the U.S. Constitution warrant a public outcry?

With estimates of a million Iraqis dead and  2 ½ million more having fled to save their very lives, along with 4,600 service personnel dead and 55,000 wounded, why haven't Bush and Cheney been impeached long ago and tried at The Hague?

Why haven't the 43,000 troops who were medically unfit, yet sent to fight in Iraq, demanded that their physical condition be considered before being sent to fight a war which has devolved into a religious civil conflict?

Bush must be oblivious to the reality of what his misguided administration has actually done.  He does a sword dance with the Saudis, where the 9/11 terrorists came from.