President Clueless in Canada

Bush paid a visit to Ottowa today as he was scheduled to do. He received a cool but polite reception from the Canadian powers that be. After all, what else could they do? He did not receive a polite reception from the thousands of protesters that turned out but, of course, he tried to ignore them as much as possible. True to his style of bantering humor he thanked those “who waived at him with all five fingers.” Frankly, I doubt anyone did.

It does not appear that much actually came of this trip although he did claim to be trying to work on the beef problem. And, as always, he insisted, in spite of all local and worldwide claims to the contrary, that what he did in attacking Iraq was “right.” Excuse me! Iraq is in chaos, thousands of American troops have been killed or wounded, more than 100,000 innocent Iraqis have been killed, including thousands of women and children, there is no end in sight, the resistance seems to be growing stronger day by day, there is little electricity, water, or food, health care is virtually nonexistant, the proposed election will almost surely have to be postponed, if it ever occurs at all, Sadam Hussein is in good health and has yet to be tried, Osama bin Laden is still free somewhere or other as Bush preferred to attack Iraq which had nothing whatsoever to do either with 9/11 or terrorism, and, by any reasonable assessment things in Iraq are much worse than they ever were even under Hussein. How, by any stretch of the imagination can one conclude that this was “right?” In fact, it was and is a war crime of absolutely monumental proportions. But of course Bush has to insist it was right because the alternative would be to admit that it was not only wrong, but criminal in the extreme. If he truly believes it is right he is either a religious wacko or criminally insane. If he doesn’t believe it is right and just pretends it is he is the most evil person on earth, with the exception, perhaps, of Dick Cheney.

There were thousands of protestors in Canada, thousands in Chile, and there are thousands in the Ukraine and elsewhere. So where are the protestors here? What has happened to the peace movement? Why is the American public simply accepting this absolute rape of democracy? Why are they overlooking the obviously rigged election? Why are we all just settling down to business as usual? Why is the Democratic party simply giving up? BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER! This is a country controlled by and run by gigantic Corporations, by the wealthy. It has been from the very beginning and will no doubt continue to be until the masses finally erupt in a frenzy of true democratic activity and just say NO! Only the people can correct this continuing injustice. Neither of the Republican parties are going to change a thing. As socialism has become such a dirty word in the United States it has to be completely abandoned. There has to be a new party. Perhaps “Progressive Democrats” will work. At least it will be a start in the right direction.