September 06, 2007

IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

SUCCESS? REPORT SAYS IRAQI GOVERNMENT NEAR COLLAPSE

I got an email survey from the Republican Congressman in this district. Rubber Stamp Radanovich sent a totally slanted survey. This one said something to the effect of, "Do you believe the progress in the region is due to President Bush's surge?" It assumes there is progress. I don't happen to believe there is. The Bush administration made a big thing of "democracy" in Iraq, purple fingers and all, and now the Iraqi government is near collapse, according to a new report provided to Congress. This story by James Gordon Meek is at www.nydailynews.com:

Lawmakers returning here this week got hit with more bad news about Iraq in a confidential report that says the fragile democracy is "collapsing," the Daily News has learned.

The boycott of the government by certain Shiite and Kurdish political blocs has left Iraq's leadership hanging by a thread, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service.

The report by CRS, Congress' research and analysis arm, was completed Aug. 15 for the House and Senate.

"My assessment is that because of the number and breadth of parties boycotting the cabinet, the Iraqi government is in essential collapse," Kenneth Katzman, the author of the report, said. "That argues against any real prospects for political reconciliation."

Without a political infrastructure in Iraq, any military progress would be short-lived, he added.

MEDIA BE NOT PROUD

As important as a presidential election is to the country and the world, you would think professional journalists would view it seriously. Instead, many reporters like to portray the campaign as a beauty contest. It becomes a matter of who can court the press more effectively than a candidate's experience, his positions, or where he might take the country. In the 2000 election cycle we saw the media go out of its way to denigrate Al Gore, to make him appear pompous and elitist and untruthful. Frat Boy George Bush was just more fun to be with back in those days and the press failed miserably in its obligation to report the issues and what was really at stake in that election. We see the horrific results now after years of George W. Bush. This article by Evgenia Peretz is at www.vanityfair.com:

As he was running for president, Al Gore said he'd invented the Internet; announced that he had personally discovered Love Canal, the most infamous toxic-waste site in the country; and bragged that he and Tipper had been the sole inspiration for the golden couple in Erich Segal's best-selling novel Love Story (made into a hit movie with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal). He also invented the dog, joked David Letterman, and gave mankind fire.

Could such an obviously intelligent man have been so megalomaniacal and self-deluded to have actually said such things? Well, that's what the news media told us, anyway. And on top of his supposed pomposity and elitism, he was a calculating dork: unable to get dressed in the morning without the advice of a prominent feminist (Naomi Wolf).