Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Questions that should have been asked a long time ago, and that could include the following:

When the so-called smart bombs were blasting innocent Iraqi civilians in the rush to grab Saddam, Bush was captured on White House closed circuit television exhorting with his right fist pumped in the air, "Feels good!"

Now everybody in the entire world knows the Iraq War was launched by serial liars.  The media robots resorted to phony nuclear scare tactics.

Bush should be asked at the International Criminal Court at The Hague how he feels now that he knows some of the consequences of the Iraq War?

How does he feel about the estimated 600,000 to 1 million Iraqis dead, with countless others wounded?   Over 2.5 million Iraqis have fled to Iran, Syria and Jordan.

Does it keep Bush awake at night?  Does the Iraq War still feel good?

How does Bush feel about 4,600 U.S. service personnel coming back to the U.S.A. in coffins?

How does Bush feel about 55,000 service personnel coming home wounded, with many committing suicide?

How does Bush feel with the knowledge that the majority of Americans believe that Bush deliberately lied to the public to launch the so-called"shock and awe" attack on Iraq?  

Do the lowest ratings of popularity of almost any U.S. president, sometimes as low as 27% who still believe in you - ever cross your mind, Mr. Bush?

Or are you too busy revving up Air Force One for your whirlwind trip to European capitals to tell them all how to run foreign affairs?  

Or are you so busy darting off to Japan for an environmental conference - what have you actually accomplished?

Does it feel good to counsel European leaders, considering your Iraq War track record?  

Does it feel good to make non-binding environmental statements in Japan, which produces nothing of any proven value, or do you just enjoy travel?

Then there is Beijing - with your human rights record approving water-boarding and other torture techniques.  Perhaps you can compare notes with China's interrogation techniques!        

But please use a maximum of tact.  After all, China and the Saudis both buy U.S. bonds, which helps the U.S. keep the gigantic interest payments on the nearly $10 trillion national debt.  

Wars do cost, don't they?  Remember when you moved into the White House, the Democrats left you with a budget surplus.  

You are leaving office with that $10 trillion debt and the mortgage mess - 2 ½ million homes facing foreclosure.

Perhaps you followed Ronald Reagan's mantra of "Get the government off of people's backs."  The government sure got off the bank loan officer's backs, didn't they?

It looks like lack of supervision of bank fraud could bring on another Depression.  Dare we utter that word?

Does the U.S. economic picture today prompt you to say, "Feels good!"?  

Now, Mr. Bush, you claimed when the weapons of mass destruction strategy was proven a hoax, the U.S. would bring democracy and freedom to Iraq.  Then Bush enthused, "Democracy and freedom will spread to the entire Middle East!"

Talk about delusions!

The only thing spreading to the entire Middle East were frightened Iraqis fleeing for their lives.

The majority of Iraqis, 70%, want the U.S. to leave.  The one-sided oil contract that Bush has been trying for years to get the Iraqis to sign would grant long-term oil lease rights to foreign investors to 63 or Iraq's 80 oil wells.  

Meanwhile they could retain 17 of their own oil wells!  How generous!  

This has never been agreed to.

But dreams and delusions die hard.  

When Rome ruled the world, Roman soldiers were in Baghdad.  

History has recorded that Roman soldiers were driven back to Rome.  Baghdad taught Rome a lesson about leaving Iraqis alone along with the ultimate result of a Baghdad scorched earth policy, similar to the current situation in that historic nation.

Now reality sets in.  President Jalal Talabini of Iraq has demanded a U.S. withdrawal time table.

The U.S. is building its biggest embassy in the world in Iraq with grandiose plans to obtain a foothold in the Middle East, a foothold over a third of the world's oil.  

How convenient for U.S. oil companies.  Could it be that the horrifying Iraq War with its death, destruction and debt was all over oil?

Robert F. Worth, in a July 9 New York Times Article from Doha, Qatar, wrote:

"In the last month, after Qatar, diplomats brokered a landmark peace deal for Lebanon.  In talks here, the tiny emirate on the Persian Gulf has enjoyed a moment of giddy celebrity.  Editorialists praised the Qatari Emir as a modern day Metternich.  Huge billboards went up on the road to the Beirut Airport proclaiming, `We all say thank you.'"

Robert F. Worth made a drastic mistake referring to this peace agreement as "a moment of giddy celebrity!"

Doesn't Mr. Worth know that peace saves lives while war takes lives?

Perhaps Mr. Worth should read Vincent Bugliosi's latest best seller book, "The Prosecution of George W. Bush."  Bugliosi, the legendary best selling author, the man who put Charles Manson in the Big House, has written a non-fiction book about the man currently residing in the White House.

In an exclusive Seattle Times interview published July 7, Bugliosi revealed:  "There is a documentary being produced.  It's going through editing right now, based on my book."

Could it be that the Bush Republican administration was living in the past eras?  

The Internet revolution has transformed the entire news media in a flash.  First-hand, on the scene reporting from every nation in earth is on the Internet night and day.

The entire world, which heard Bush exclaim "Feels good!" as bombs blasted Baghdad, will realize after reading "The Prosecution of George W. Bush" and seeing the documentary based on the book that George W. Bush will not be saying "Feels good!"