September 12, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

REALITY VS. BUSH

I think George W. Bush is a product of the right-wing ideology that has always lain like a coiled serpent and ready to strike. The serpent was held at bay for the most part during the 20th century. It had a resurgence during the McCarthy era. Then it came out from under the rock during the Reagan administration and hasn't really gone away since. Right-wing ideology says the best solution to any quarrel is a military solution. You "bomb them back to the Stone Age" or some other equivalent. You give the government and the economy over to big business and trust big business will do what's right. You ignore all the historical examples that the mixing of religion and politics is a disaster. Bush, as a servant to his ideology, would rather continue the failure in Iraq than admit failure and pull out. This article by Andrew Greeley is at www.commondreams.org:

Here’s the question that senators ought to have asked General Petraeus (the current Colin Powell):Could you give us a rough estimate, general, of how many more American men and women will die in Iraq? Not a precise figure, just an approximation?

That is an important question. Chicago political guru Don Rose has pointed out that Bush’s war in Iraq has caused the deaths of more Americans than died in the Sept. 11 attacks and probably more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein killed. What is the point of all this slaughter?

This is a strange week in America. As we pass the sixth anniversary of 9/11, Bush is still telling us that the Iraq war can be won, that we can achieve victory, that we can create a democratic Iraq. The neocons who created the war are telling us that the “surge” in Iraq has “worked,” that the tide has turned, that we see light at the end of the tunnel (well, they don’t say that, but it’s the same idea). The work of the Iraq Study Group could be cast aside, the grim news in the recent National Intelligence Report can be dismissed, the reports of the Government Accountability Office on the “guidelines” for the Iraqi government were “pessimistic;” Marine Gen. James Jones’ reports on the state of the Iraqi police and army did not include August.