Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

By a strange coincidence bordering on synchronicity, the article directly beneath the Washington Post piece on Britain's Iraq War inquiry was a revealing item on the current Iraq War continuing almost daily disasters.

The New York Times and the Associated Press article told of 7 dead and 10 wounded in Iraq blasts.

As if that wasn't enough, 5 others died elsewhere in suicide bombings.  The story which was dated from Baghdad is as follows:

"Seven people were killed and 10 others injured Thursday after two blasts ripped through the offices of a Sunni political party while leaders gathered for a meeting, Iraqi police said.

"The building housing the party, the National Movement for Reform and Development, has been the target of bombings twice this year, although the party is a relatively minor political force.  In January, a car bomb detonated outside the building, in Baqouba, Diyala's provincial capital.  Seven people were killed in that attack."

In USA Today July 30 a front page story revealed the fact that since December 2008, 85 gay and lesbians had been ruthlessly killed.  Frightened Christians are fleeing Iraq to save their lives after 6 Christian churches were attacked.

Remember when the U.S. leadership sent shock waves of fear throughout the U.S.A. when in a State of the Union Address George W. Bush declared that we had proof that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and was well on the road to developing nuclear weapons threatening us?

When all these farfetched claims were proven to be false, then President Bush should have been promptly impeached.

Instead Bush dramatically donned a flight suit and was sped by helicopter from San Diego Harbor to a waiting naval ship.  Before TV cameras he assumed the role for a triumphant commander in chief by declaring that the Iraq War signified "Mission Accomplished."

That was years ago.  Then the Iraq War mission suddenly changed from a defensive war to protect the U.S. from those awful weapons of mass destruction and a nuclear holocaust to a freedom and democracy war for Iraq and the entire Middle East.  The delusional rantings succeeded in keeping the billions in U.S. taxpayers' dollars continuing the Iraq War debacle.

Why hasn't the U.S. begun an independent formal inquiry into the U.S. launching the Iraq War?

The July 30 Seattle Times article by Nada Bakri of the Washington Post told of what the U.S. forces have done to 4,000 year old archeological sites:

"During the Iraq War, U.S. forces did not pulverize 4,000 year old Babylon, one of the world's great cities, but they did turn it into a military base and caused 'major damage' to an internationally known archeological site, a report says.

"Maytham Hamzah cast his eyes toward the remains of King Nebuchadnezzar's guest palace in Babylon, one of the world's first great cities.

"'They destroyed the whole country,' Hamzah, head of the Babylon Museum, said of U.S. forces in Iraq."

As for that freedom Bush boasted of delivering possibly to the entire Middle East, 2 ½ million Iraqis fled for their lives to Iran, Syria, Jordan, Scandinavian countries and the U.S. while some 4,500 U.S. service personnel died and over 55,000 were wounded.

The Pentagon admits to over 100,000 Iraq deaths.  The distinguished British medical journal Lancet reports that the current figure stands at 1,339,771 Iraqi deaths.

Are we going to let George Bush relax and enjoy his life now in his million dollar mansion in Dallas, far removed from his Crawford, Texas ranch?

Or will we alternately follow the British and launch an independent inquiry on every individual and factor that led us into the Iraq War tragedy?