Keep your eye on the ball

I believe what Cindy Sheehan has done and is doing is absolutely marvelous. She has energized the anti-war movement, embarrassed the president, and insisted on getting some explanation for why we are in Iraq (actually I think we know why we are in Iraq but for some peculiar reason no one wants to admit it. It has to do with OIL). It is obvious that Bush can never explain to Cindy why Iraq is a "noble cause," because, of course, it is not. It is really quite simple. We invaded Iraq because they sit on an enormous amount of oil which we desperately need to control. We are going to set up a puppet government that will do what we want them to do and we are going to establish permanent military bases to insure they comply. What is complicated about that? All this talk about withdrawing troops, having Iraqis run their own country, democracy, etc., etc., is just talk. Actually little more than babble.

But there is a down side to the Cindy phenomenon. It occupies the news. So when did you last hear anything about the Rove scandal? How about Gannon/Guckert? Sybel Edmonds? Tom DeLay? The 9/11 investigation? Even John Roberts? When did you hear or see anything about the obscene national debt? Health care? Global warming? Environmental health? Even Social Security has disappeared. It's all about Cindy. On the one hand this is great, on the other is is distracting us from all the other problems and scandals of this dismal administration (dismal doesn't even approximate the truth of the problem).

Bush/Cheney should either resign or be impeached for the good of the country (ha ha, imagine either of them doing anything for the good of the country). After they resign or are impeached they should be tried for war crimes (there is no doubt they are guilty of them). Blair is apparently going to become part of the Carlyle group after his tenure as Prime Minister. Think of this. Think really hard about it. Is there any doubt about who rules the world? Barnum didn't think on a grand enough scale. There's not a sucker born every minute, there are millions of them. So good luck suckers.