February 22, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

TOO MANY MORONS

The Central Valley can be a difficult place to live if you have an IQ above room temperature. Today is reactionary day in the letters page of The Fresno Bee. One idiot says he'll forgive the Dixie Chicks when the Vietnam veterans forgive Jane Fonda. One really over-the-top jerk refers to the "socialist" press and calls the Democrats who voted for a non-binding resolution in the House of Representatives cut and run defeatists. We get the usual blather about this giving aid and comfort to our enemies. The fact is our enemies love the United States military being bogged down in Iraq. They couldn't have gotten a bigger gift from George W. Bush than this so-called troop surge that bogs us down even more. I wonder how Mr. Foaming at the Mouth is reacting to the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq. Are the British "cut and run defeatists" too?

WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP

The neocon philosophy that gained mainstream power with Ronald Reagan is like corrosive acid on the United States. Neocon "morality" believes in the forcible creation of "democracy. " It's a "democracy" that is compliant to the wishes of the United States political and corporate elites. Torture against Americans is an outrage, but torture of other people is perfectly legitimate. Neocons and their followers can talk casually of using nuclear weapons to kill millions of people. Neocons will lie and subvert science to fight efforts against global warming. Neocons will transfer most of the country's wealth to the few at the top. Neocons will ignore an American city like New Orleans and leave it to drown. Neocons will "protect" our freedom by destroying our civil liberties. This is a good commentary by Robert Parry about the war in Iraq that is already lost. The article is at www.truthout.org:

Despite the sacrifices in lives, treasure and liberties, the painful reality is that the United States is losing the "war on terror" - in large part because too many people in the Middle East and across the globe view George W. Bush as a bully and a hypocrite.

Bush has become the ugly face of America, mouthing pretty words about freedom and democracy while threatening other nations and bludgeoning those who get in his way. Perhaps even worse, Bush has shown himself to be an incompetent commander, especially for a conflict as complicated and nuanced as this one.

Indeed, it is hard to envision how the United States can win the crucial battles for the hearts and minds of key populations if Bush remains President. Arguably, Bush has become a "clear and present danger" to the interests of the American people - yet he still has almost two years left in his term.

This predicament - the desperate need for new U.S. leadership and the difficult fact of being stuck with Bush - was underscored by the Feb. 19 lead article in the New York Times describing the revival of al-Qaeda as a worldwide terror network operating out of new bases in remote sections of Pakistan.

"American officials said there was mounting evidence that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had been steadily building an operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan," the Times reported.