Airlift to Bagdad?

Apparently the highways and countryside of Iraq are presently so dangerous and out of control we are now thinking of airlifting supplies rather than transporting them by truck. Interesting, given that the road to the airport has already been declared off limits. Maybe they can helicopter supplies from the airport to Bagdad? In spite of this minor problem Bush insists that the election will go forward.

In order to legally contest the recent election they need both someone from Congress and someone from the Senate to request such an investigation. There are several Congresspersons prepared to do this. Pressure is being put on Barbara Boxer to be the Senator. Whether she will or not I don’t know. But what I want to know is why are there not dozens of Senators eager to contest this absolute travesty of an election? Just like the 2000 election when they could not get a single senator to stand up for a challenge it is not clear that any Senator will stand up now. So what’s with Senators? What is it that the Bush Administration apparently has to render Senators completely mute when it comes to any serious challenge to any of their illegal and unprincipled actions? No one seems willing to stand up to this Administration no matter how outrageous their behavior. So they all stand by and simply watch while Bush/Cheney conduct an absolutely illegal, unconstitutional, and unnecessary war, destroy the American economy, ravage the environment, repeatedly violate the Geneva Convention, steal from the middle class to enrich the already filthy rich, alienate the U.S. from the rest of the world, and convert the mightiest nation on earth into a banana republic. What gives? What on earth is going on? Whatever happened to the United States of my youth?

Whatever happened to common sense in the United States? The Reagan/Bush multi-billion star wars fantasy has just failed dismally for the umpteenth time. It doesn’t really matter because the main purpose was never to protect America from missiles, it was to keep the military-industrial complex going. Everyone with a brain the size of a pea knew that it wouldn’t work. And even if it did work, why would it matter? The threat is not from missiles being fired at the U.S. from anyone foolish enough to want to be immediately eliminated from the face of the earth, it is from someone with a suitcase or a bottle of botulism, or perhaps a bit of anthrax or ricin.

Linda describes me as “Mr. Doom and Gloom.” But she doesn’t claim that things are going okay or are going to get better under the present Administration. It is quite clear that things cannot go on as they are: more debt, more killing, more alienation from the rest of the world, more poverty, more anti-science, more lying, more secrecy, fewer civil rights, and no accountability whatsoever. When this blows it is going to blow “big time.” Be prepared.