Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Now with over 4,500 U.S. service personnel dead and over 55,000 wounded, do George Bush and Dick Cheney imagine that they have gotten by with conducting a war in Iraq and fantasize they will never be tried as war criminals.

If so, they are thinking incorrectly.  For there are too many people who want the government to launch an investigation to determine every individual who must bear responsibility for triggering the Iraq War tragedy.  

Secret discussions were held in Cheney's office before the Iraq War was launched as oil leases were divided in advance among leading international conglomerates.  Alan Greenspan mentioned the crucial oil factor in his memoirs.

If this issue were brought up at a war crimes trial at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Bush and Cheney would have to answer this crucial point.  

George Bush has accumulated around 4,000 artifacts of the Iraq War with one of his proudest collector's items being Saddam Hussein's personal gun.  He has had this memento framed.

Cheney has been chasing seemingly endlessly around television networks, with a special emphasis on Fox News, continuously congratulating himself on using his approval of the CIA's harsh investigative techniques.  

Dick Cheney recognizes that according to international law many CIA torture techniques were illegal.  He also realizes that international documents the U.S. had signed were broken with impunity.

Could Cheney be motivated to continuously defend his actions as he prefers living in luxury in his home rather than a prison cell at The Hague, which conceivably could be his new residence should he be convicted as a war criminal by the International Court.

Bush is no doubt busy adjusting his life away from his Crawford, Texas ranch, where he was shown on TV cutting weeds.  His million dollar new Dallas, Texas home will no doubt have a gardener.  Does Bush ever think about the report from the respected British medical journal The Lancet that 1,339,771 Iraqis have lost their lives since the first aerial assault on Baghdad by U.S. forces.

Will any mention be made in Bush's new presidential museum of the tragic aforementioned figure?  Will any mention be made of the more than 2.5 million Iraqis who were forced to flee for their lives to Syria, Jordan, Iran, Scandinavian countries and the U.S.A.?

While in the White House Bush claimed that only time would tell of the positive achievements of his administration.  Sadly, the endless cycle of killing in Iraq goes on and on.

All of Bush's tiresome ranting about America bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq which might eventually spread to the entire Middle East never came true.

This was only a flimsy cover-up of the unneeded Iraq War.  History might well consider George Bush one of the worst presidents in the U.S. history, presiding over a shameful era of death, destruction, and debt.

From the start of Barack Obama's presidency, he has been repeatedly asked the following question, "Do you intend to order an investigation of the Bush administration and the Iraq War?"

Obama has repeatedly replied, "I'm looking forward to the future and not looking backwards!" or words to that effect.

Now I will ask Obama one question:

"If some conscientious individuals had never looked back at injustices suffered by African Americans in the U.S.A., would gains achieved through voting rights, civil rights, and affirmative action have been realized?"