September 25, 2006
Cheney is busy accusing Democrats of being soft on terror today, Bush is raising money for his republican's dubious November campaigns. They're running hard around the country, trying to dodge accountability from their own agencies, agents, generals and officers, and our representatives in Congress. They've cloaked themselves in our flag, donned their chickenhawk fatigues, and ducked down behind our soldiers who they expect to carry out double/triple duty to substitute their own lives and livelihoods taking the brunt of these tyrannical losers' deadly pratfalls.
Yet, Bush and Cheney can't escape that huge sucking sound from Iraq. Bush's ideological vortex has sucked the life out of over 2700 of our nation's soldiers, up to $10 billion a month out of our hard-earned contributions to our government, and destroyed the goodwill and comity that took generations to build and nurture from of the increasingly defensive world community.
Today the truth was revealed as military announced the delayed departure of thousands of soldiers from Iraq and the deployment of thousands more. 3,800 soldiers from the Army's 1st Armored Division, based in Germany, that was due to leave Iraq in January are being told they must remain in Iraq for another two months; extending their tour to 13 months, over the deployment limit of 12 months that had been set by their superiors. That would bring the number of U.S. forces in the country to over 140,000 troops.
What possible reason could there be for continuing to escalate the numbers of troops in Iraq as their own military hawks the progress of the police and military forces? What possible reason could there be for continuing to introduce new, materially unprepared and untrained troops into the killing field surrounding the green zone of defense that surrounds the center of Bush's junta? The government in Iraq has fallen. All that remains is the appearance of democracy, much like Saddam's own rule; complete with a paper Parliament, left to squabble over the scraps of their country that haven't been sullied, stepped on, and stolen by their arrogant invading overlords.
There is no government left to defend there; only the remnants of the new tyrants' reign, complete with enough chaos and mayhem to support the Bush regime's protection racket; the cynical scheme that directs our forces stir up enough resentment and unrest for Bush to continue to sit on his high horse and claim he's defending Iraqis (and the U.S.) against the new generation of 'terrorists' his own National Security Estimate says his invasion and occupation has spawned and increased.
We can see through the worn threads of their imperious cloak, and watch as they descend even lower in their determination to replace McCarthyism with their own pernicious campaign of fear and smear. A
poll released today by Bloomberg and the LaTimes reportedly shows that 55% of Americans don't believe Iraq was worth going to war over in the first place. Only 22% surveyed believed the U.S. was 'winning' anything there.
Sixty-three percent of respondents to the poll think don't think anything is being won in Iraq. Yet, Bush and Cheney persist in labeling our nation's representatives who question their failed occupation in Iraq as 'soft' and 'weak'; as if some sort of strength was to be conferred on these epic losers. As if they should be seen as some sort of conquering heroes and saviors for the 2700 lives they sacrificed for their false cause in Iraq that Americans have long ago lost faith in.
Analogies to the Vietnam war are inevitable and predictable, especially in the face of the continuing deaths of our soldiers, and the escalation of the numbers of troops to Iraq in the face of their obvious failure to earn the trust and consent of those they claim to be liberating in the name of whatever version of democracy they're willing to settle for today. As Saigon became Ho Chi Min City after the U.S. bugged out, Iraq's Baghdad is destined to reflect the designs of those Bush has identified as our 'enemies; more than the captured and occupied city will resemble any of the grand designs that Bush hawked to the American people to get their initial approval to invade.
As the prisons have become more efficient torture chambers to crush the new junta's political opposition they lock up indefinitely without charges or counsel; as the police forces reassume their duty as deadly enforcers with the summary judgment of their U.S. supported violence; as the military devolves into bands of death squad militias, complete with U.S. weapons and para-military training: as the government there draws closer to the main spoke of Bush's 'axis of evil; Iraq is set to rival any of our purchased regimes in its brutality and oppression.
This weekend Bush gave Wolf Blitzer an
interview for CNN in which he made excuses for his protege' Maliki's recent embrace of the Iranian President Ahmadinejad. "What's going on here is you've got the president of a sovereign nation going to a neighbor and making it clear to the neighbor to stop meddling with their new democracy," Bush said. "Absolutely I take (Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) seriously, just like I take al Qaeda seriously when they say they're going to attack us again, just like I take these extremists seriously when they say they're trying to disrupt democracies."
There is no one in the world who threatens democracies more than our President Bush. Yet, he cites 'extremists' as the cause of his concern. The irony of his statements couldn't be more obvious. Maliki's regime, who Bush claims is threatened by anti-democratic forces, has been under siege from resistance forces in Iraq, whose cause has been fostered, inflamed and aggravated by Bush's continued occupation.
As for Iran, the Bush regime has made it clear that they want to overthrow Iran's government' by asking Congress for, and supporting the allocation of $20 million and establishing offices headed by the vice-president's daughter, Elizabeth Cheney to coordinate and oversee Iraq regime change efforts. Our warmonger-in-chief is the regime change leader of the world, taking into account his misuse of the awesome power of our military forces to suppress and slaughter any and all in his way; all in the name of democracy, freedom, liberation . . . this is Bush through the looking-glass, Alice and the White Rabbit careening around in their own alternate universe as the mess they've caused remains festering on the other side of the fantasy they've surrounded themselves with.
And, they're late . . . no time, no time, no time! No time for the seemingly intractable difficulties Americans are enduring as they string us out further into their open-ended militarism. No time for thousands of seniors and the disabled who are struggling with high health care costs; no time to confront skyrocketing tuition costs; roll back their tax breaks for Big Oil and investing the savings in alternative fuels; no time to increase the minimum wage; not even any time to fully implement the security recommendations of the 9-11 commission.
Our leaders in the House of Representatives
announced today that Democrats will "actively resist adjournment" to force republicans to address these issues before the November election. In an letter to Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, Democrats rejected "assertions that the people's business can wait."
"Though we have yet to receive a response from you, the urgency to act remains: from national security to economic security, from the cost of health care and college tuition to the price at the pump, our country is heading in the wrong direction," they wrote. "Anything less would be a serious abdication of our responsibilities as elected officials."
However, Bush and Cheney have only one thing on their mind as they use the lofty perch of their office to talk down to Americans who are becoming increasingly concerned about the out-of-control occupation; and about its drain on our country's resources, and on the lives of the soldiers and family members who remain at the point of Bush and Cheny's cynical political campaign. They will have to be forced into releasing their grip on our democracy by the actions of our congressional representatives. Keeping the republicans in place, focusing on
our problems and concerns, is the first step in pulling our country off of the ground in Iraq and setting it right again.
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