Proud Republicans?

Dennis Kucinich attempted to have a bipartisan investigation of WHIG (the White House Iraq Group) to see what, in fact, they might have been up to vis-a-vis bringing about the illegal, immoral, unconstitutional and unnecessary "war" with Iraq. This was voted down by a vote of 25 to 23. All Republicans were present and all voted together. A few others, mostly Democrats, were temporarily absent when the vote was called. This was apparently scheduled to take advantage of that fact. So what is it with Republicans? Are they really so proud of Bush/Cheney and the neocons lies that they wish to protect them? What are they afraid of? Are they so fearful of losing power they are willing to cover up what are probably war crimes? If the WHIG did, in fact, manufacture lies to bring about this "war" why would they not want the American people to know about it? Can they really have fallen so low? I fear the answer is yes.

Now we can apparently add still another war crime to the Bush/Cheney bunch. It appears that our troops have used white phosphorus against civilians. They claim that white phosphorus is not against the rules because it can be used to light up an area or destroy buildings and such. But it cannot be used against humans as such. But it apparently was. Although this is denied by some American military personnel it has been claimed by other military personnel. In fact, the Italians have a video that demonstrates that it was in fact used on civilians. That is, they have actual videotape of bodies destroyed by this chemical. While one Marine Lt. Colonel is testifying that it didn't happen there are actual photos showing that it did. This will do even more to enhance the U.S. image as totally dishonest and criminal in the extreme. It will certainly go a long way to "spread democracy in the Middle East."

However horrible our behavior has been in Iraq it still does not excuse further acts of humanicide (see morialekafa of 8-26-04 for a discussion of humanicide). One of the bombings in Jordan targeted a marriage party of some 300 guests. Obviously these were innocent civilians who had nothing whatsoever to do with the "war." The suicide bomber who blew them and himself up had no idea who they were or why they should be targeted. He/she could not have known precisely who was attending, whether or not they were all locals, whether or not they were somehow "enemies," and so on. It was a blatant act of humanicide that can only cause them to ultimately lose any support they may have had for such inhumane, irrelevant, and dastardly mindless behavior. This was not an example of patriots trying to defend their country from foreign occupation, but, rather, a cowardly and totally unjustified murderous attack on innocent civilians for no reasonable purpose other than that they were apparently not well protected and therefore an easy target. If I were not familiar with human history I would not believe that human beings could have fallen so low.

Doesn't it make you proud to realize you are at the apex of Intelligent design?