Chickens come home to roost

Here in the vastness of time
we mortals presume
to have the power of gods,
but challenge nature
with the mindlessness of fools.


If you haven’t seen it, and you probably haven’t, as you can be sure you won’t see it on any of the major news media, Bush’s hometown paper has endorsed John Kerry. Not only that, they have written the most detailed, intelligent, thorough indictment of the Bush/Cheney failures to date. Everyone should be able to read this marvelous account of Bush’s broken promises, lies, and more lies. This is not a partisan account. This is a paper that previously supported Bush. But they have now had enough of his miserable failure as President. And that is what he is, an absolutely miserable failure, just as he has failed at everything else he has attempted. A failed student, failed businessman, failed governor, failed National Guardsman, and now a demonstrably failed President. Thank goodness he wasn’t actually elected. That’s about all the American public can claim in their defense.

If the United States is ever going to be able to reclaim its rightful place in the world we will have to do more than simply defeat Bush/Cheney. They will have to be held accountable for their blatant war crimes. The Muslim world will never forgive us for what we have done until those responsible are held accountable. The blood on the hands of Bush/Cheney and their ilk will not simply disappear because they are no longer in office. It will be a long and very slow process to convince the world that what has happened was either necessary or justified. And this will have to also include an apology for our support of the racist, murderous, semi-genocidal behavior of Israel, a nation that has flounted the U.N. far more egregiously that Iraq ever did. There will NEVER be peace in the middle east until the Palestinians are treated fairly. And they will never be treated fairly as long as Sharon and Bush are in control. The Bush/Cheney war machine, that they obviously want to continue forever (profits, you know), has to be dismantled and replaced by a program of peace and prosperity for all, not just the few. The first step is obviously to rid the world of the current United States Administration. It is virtually impossible to conceive of anything worse than what we have at the moment.