July 13, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

PEGGY NOONAN'S TAKE ON BUSH

Pundit Peggy Noonan, who once wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan, is a champion of all that is right-wing. But even Noonan has problems with George W. Bush. This item comes from www.motherjones.com:

Americans have always been somewhat romantic about the meaning of our country, and the beacon it can be for the world, and what the Founders did. But they like the president to be the cool-eyed realist, the tough customer who understands harsh realities.

With Mr. Bush it is the people who are forced to be cool-eyed and realistic. He's the one who goes off on the toots. This is extremely irritating, and also unnatural. Actually it's weird.

THE DAMAGE OF THE FEW AGAINST THE MANY

As Paul Craig Roberts points out in this article, a few people have had a major impact in creating the debacle in Iraq and the Middle East. Massive power in the hands of a few unprincipled power mongers has rained death and destruction on hundreds of thousands of innocent people and weakened the national security of the United States. This commentary is at www.informationclearinghouse.com:

The Bush-Cheney regime came to power with the plans drawn to attack the remaining independent countries in the Middle East and with neoconservatives in office to implement the plans. However, an excuse was required. Neoconservatives had called for “a new Pearl Harbor,” and 9/11 provided the propaganda event needed in order to stampede the public and Congress into war. Neoconservative Philip Zelikow was put in charge of the 9/11 Commission Report to make certain no uncomfortable facts emerged.

The neoconservatives have had enormous help from the corporate media, from Christian evangelicals, particularly from the “Rapture Evangelicals,” from flag-waving superpatriots, and from the military- industrial complex whose profits have prospered. But the fact remains that the dozen men named in the second paragraph above were able to overthrow the US Constitution and launch military aggression under the guise of a preventive/preemptive “war against terrorism.”

When the American people caught on that the “war on terror” was a cloak for wars of aggression, they put Democrats in control of Congress in order to apply a brake to the regime’s warmongering. However, the Democrats have proven to be impotent to stop the neoconservative drive to wider war and, perhaps, world conflagration.

We are witnessing the triumph of a dozen evil men over American democracy and a free press.