...to the fullest extent of the law.
*They lied us into a war with Iraq and abandoned the search for Osama-Bin-Who? There are now almost 550 American dead in this enterprise, several thousand severely maimed (just to mention the most famous: Jessica Lynch may never recover full use of either her legs or her bowels, and she's one of the lucky ones), and uncounted thousands of dead Iraqis.
*Anyone remember Afghanistan? I've read that outside Kabul it's warlord territory again, and that farmers desperate for a cash crop to support their extended families are returning to the ever-reliable opium poppy.
*Saddam's an SOB, we all knew that, but he was a secular tyrant with no connection to the religious fanatics of Saudi Arabia or the Taliban; but now, thanks to Neoconservative wet-dreams of empire, jihadists are pouring into Iraq so they can kill Americans without travelling to the US. Brilliant.
*Adding insult to injury, Bush-Cheney Inc. have been so intent on taking care of their friends and relatives that they have given no-bid contracts to Halliburton. Halliburton is charging us (MY taxes) for meals, water, and tents not delivered to US troops. Halliburton's idea of good accounting practices is to bleed us out (again, MY taxes).
*US troops are being supplied and equipped very unevenly, to say the least. Some are getting what they need, and some are not. My sister knows one very dead 19-year-old who phoned his dad from Italy to say that his weapon was antiquated, he didn't have the right ammunition for it, and his kevlar vest was not only not kevlar, but was a leftover from Vietnam and missing some panels. He died outside Kirkuk in November. His parents would like to know if he was even able to defend himself from the ambush.
*Injured US troops are receiving very uneven medical care when they return to the US. Regular Army go to Walter Reed Hospital where it's crowded but they get the best, and the Reserves and Guard go to outlying military bases like Ft. Stewart and Ft. Knox where they wait for medical attention or rehab sometimes for months. Why? There is no real medical system in the US in place for Reserves and Guards, and no one in Rumsfeld's world thought to prepare for the wounded. You got that? They send our kids to WAR and they don't prepare for the WOUNDED.
*Veterans' health benefits are being cut waaaaay back, so when this generation of survivors need ongoing help for their PTSD, rehab for missing limbs, treatment for (or even acknowledgment of) exposure to depleted uranium -- it's going to be pretty hard to come by.
For all of the above and more, prosecution and prison seem about right. Corruption, war-profiteering, greed, avarice, causing great bodily harm...
These unspeakable
unspeakables have been at it 24/7 since their first day in the Oval Office:
*trashing the environment (they want to drill for oil off my beach; they’re clear-cutting in old-growth national forests, deep inside so most of us will never see it happening; fouling the air by gutting the Clean Air Act),
*rolling back women's rights to about 1700 (from the first day in office),
*writing Executive Orders at a greater rate than all other presidents combined,
*emptying our national savings account (MY middle class taxes, not those of the Offshore Plutocrats) and sticking our kids with the bill,
*de-funding programs that are the very foundation of our culture, like public education and Social Security
*erasing the line between church and state as fast as possible
*shredding our Constitution and Bill of Rights in the name of national security — oh excuse me, I mean "Homeland" Security. And when enough people complained about Patriot Act II, they simply broke it into pieces and inserted them into other bills.
It’s as if there is some gigantic workroom full of gnomes that ceaselessly work on the Neocon agenda. I can’t keep up — I think most people are like me in that there’s just so much of it going on that one person simply cannot grasp it all: even just signing up for e-mail from action groups is overwhelming after awhile.
The Neocons simply intend to destroy the United States as we know it. There’s no other explanation that makes sense. I don’t know if all the harm can ever be undone, especially if Bush (p’tui p’tui) remains in office until 2008.
So, blame them? Only for what they’ve done, which is plenty. I’d love for their punishment to be a combination of prosecution for whatever laws they’ve broken, and outright mockery of Chimpy forever. I love the suggestion that the Bush Flight Suit could end up being like Clinton’s Mighty Penis only more so, because after all, the Bill/Monica bj didn’t get anyone killed.
Hekate
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war." ~Donald Rumsfeld
"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many,
what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you
suppose? Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my
beautiful mind on something like that?" ~Barbara Bush
"I guess the 'nation's grandma' isn't the grandma of those her son sends into harm's way." ~Hekate
ARLINGTON WEST, SANTA BARBARA CALIF.
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Default.htm
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