Insanity prevails

The United States is several trillion (yes, trillion) dollars in debt. Bush is now asking for an additional 120 billion dollars for "wars" in Afghanistan and Iraq. At the same time the Senate has just passed a 70 billion dollar tax break that will, once again, favor the filthy rich who don't need it. He is also going to submit a defense budget of 439 billion dollars, five percent more than last year. This is a defense budget that exceeds all the other nations' defense budgets put together. This is, in a word, insane. Please explain to me what it is we have gained or are gaining from pouring billions of dollars into the "war" in Iraq? We certainly aren't getting any oil. And the entire Arab world hates us with a passion because of what we have done to them. Why on earth should we spend another 120 billion there? And, of course, this won't be the end of it. He'll be asking for more later. Who has benefitted from this ridiculous and obscene Bush "war?" Halliburton, that's who. Corporations. War profiteers, mercenaries. Continuing this travesty, this celebration of war crimes, is just plain insane. Can no one put a stop to it?

World Can't Wait is at least trying. Tomorrow they are supposed to descend on the capital by the thousands demanding that Bush step down. You want to bet you will hear anything about it from the mainstream media. I bet not.

The Libby trial is now postponed until next January, conveniently after the 2006 elections. Of course the elections have nothing to do with the postponement, just like the New York Times sitting on the illegal wiretapping leak for a year so that would not come up before an election. How coincidental these things are. How long has it been since the Enron scandal was exposed? It is just now going to trial and you can bet by the time it is finished Ken Lay will have died happily in his old age. Justice in the United States is truly remarkable.

Whitman, who was head of the EPA, is now being charged with having deliberately misled New Yorkers about how dangerous it was to stay in or return to the area after the 9/11 attacks. The air quality was terrible and she claimed it was safe. Many New Yorkers are now suffering the consequences of this blatant lying. Who do you suppose was primarily responsible for this disgusting act?

House resolution 635, having to do with investigating the possibilities for impeachment now has 17 signatures. Will there be any more? If not, why not? If anyone ever deserved to be impeached it has to be Bush/Cheney.

Rumsfeld, our apparently senile Secretary of Defense, now has said the "war" in Iraq will not be a long one. Do you have any idea what he is talking about? We have built four permanent military bases in Iraq. In the past different people have said we would be there for ten years, maybe longer. No one has ever said, realistically, that it would not be a long and difficult "war." So now, Rumpot suddenly has announced it will not be long? Does he really have any idea what he is talking about? Perhaps he knows something the rest of the world doesn't, like, maybe we're going to pull out quickly? Seems most unlikely to me.

Does anyone, other than the hard core Bush supporters who would apparently support him no matter what he did (he is already responsible for murder, arson, rape and other assorted war crimes) believe a word he says? Or what anyone else in his administration says? We are living in a nightmare of Bush/Cheney's doing and so far there seems to be no end in sight. Forgive me for seeing no light at the end of the tunnel.