Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Now the U.S.A. has been bogged down in the longest war in U.S. history, longer than the Civil War and World War II.

According to the Gallup Poll, Bush's popularity has slipped to 24%, with 76% of Americans opposed to what he is doing.  Nancy Gibbs in the July 28 Time Magazine revealed, "9% of people in the Rasmussen Poll think lawmakers are doing a good job."

Bush and his Republican administration do not represent what the American public stand for.  The ugly reality of the death, destruction and $10 trillion national debt causes one to wonder just how deluded Bush is when he revs up Air Force One for flights to Europe, Japan and Beijing to watch the Olympics.  Is Bush deluded into thinking the eyes of the world are blind to what he has done?

With the Taliban placed in power in Afghanistan, with a tremendous loss of lives under Ronald Reagan's reign, how can the current Afghanistan War to throw the Taliban out of power be justified?

We are so entangled in so many conflicts now that U.S. fighting forces are stretched to the breaking point.  

The book by author Vincent Bugliosi with the intriguing title "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" is number 12 on the New York Times bestseller list.

In an interview in the Seattle Times, Bugliosi was asked this question:

"If Americans don't have the stomach for impeachment what do you think is the real chance of Bush being prosecuted?"

Bugliosi replied:

"There's a substantial likelihood as a direct result of this book that Bush is going to end up in an American courtroom being prosecuted for murder.  And the main reason I say that is because of the great number of prosecutors that I've established jurisdiction for in my book.  Bush can be prosecuted for two crimes here: conspiracy to commit murder and murder."

No one is above the law!  Human life is sacred.  The mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters all over the world who loved and care for their families consider an individual who murders a loved one an enemy.  When nations launch war which will kills men, women and children, there are international laws carefully defining what constitutes justification for launching war.

The July 28 Time Magazine headline cover read as follows:

AFGHANISTAN

THE RIGHT WAR

WHY THE WEST IS FAILING THERE, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT  

Would Time Magazine dare run this headline?

IRAQ

THE WRONG WAR AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

Now this is the question that begs to be answered.

Once the propaganda "weapons of mess destruction" hysteria Bush had used to launch the Iraq War was a proven hoax, did he apologize?

No way!  Instead Bush dramatically declared, "We shall bring freedom and democracy to Iraq, spreading to the entire Middle East!"

Was Bush sincere?

When 70% of the Iraqis used their democratic voices to say emphatically to the U.S.A., "Get Out!" what happened?

The U.S. turned a deaf ear to Iraq's democratic voices, displaying the hypocrisy of the Bush Administration's claim that U.S. service personnel was fighting and dying to bring democracy to Iraq.  

With the largest U.S. Embassy being built in Iraq, the entire world is fully aware of how long the U.S. would like to stay in Iraq.

Didn't presidential candidate McCain say 100 years?