January 23, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

THE REAL STATE OF THE UNION

Tonight we'll have the pomp and circumstance of the State of the Union speech. George W. Bush will stand before the assembled members of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs, and the world and proceed to lie, lie, lie. Bush will claim we have a strong economy, when the economy is really only benefiting the very wealthy. He will claim we're strong militarily, although he has stretched the military to the limit with his godawful war in Iraq. He will make an asinine proposal to "reform" health care, which would be just another gift for his fat cat friends. This commentary by Bill Gallagher is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

Is the state of our union better today than it was six years ago when Bush, the man five partisans on the Supreme Court selected to be president, took the oath of office? The only people who will answer yes are the super-rich, the supremely partisan, the uninformed and those impervious to the truth.

The war in Iraq has fostered terrorism and spawned an entire new generation of young people growing up with the trauma of violence and war shaping their very existence. Bush will certainly not mention that the United Nations reported more than 34,000 Iraqis were killed in 2006. Such troubling statistics clutter a State of the Union address.

Bush's plan to send more troops into Baghdad will only result in more Iraqi and American deaths, and do nothing to pacify the nation thrust into civil war as a result of the invasion and incompetent occupation. The only hope is a political solution. Bush will never even consider that approach.