It can get worse

I find it hard to believe but, unfortunately, it can get worse. Bush/Cheney might actually attack Iran, or give license to Israel to do it (of course we would have to get involved). I am losing all faith. I no longer believe in American Democracy, I no longer believe in our leaders, their goals, their competence, their decency, or even their basic humanity. This goes for Democratic leadership as well as Republican. What on earth is it going to take to get someone, anyone, to do something about the horrors Bush/Cheney have wrought? The facts, by now, are pretty clear. The Republican Administration (Bush/Cheney and their neocon buddies) deliberately lied to lead us into an illegal, unconstitutional, immoral and unnecessary "war" against a small nation that was no threat to anyone. In the process of executing that "war" they have committed multiple and horrible war crimes - the killing of thousands of innocent civilians, torture, the use of illegal weapons of war, hiding prisoners, renditions, war profiteering, and more. They have also caused us to lose whatever moral ground we might have had and turned virtually the entire world against us.

Here at home they have abolished habeaus corpus, violated the Constitution, illegally spied on us, repeatedly lied to us, driven up the national debt to obscene heights, and are admittedly and flagrantly attempting to establish a fascist dictatorship, all of this financed by and deliberately planned by huge international corporations dedicated to returning ordinary citizens to the status of peasants and drones, laboring for less than livable wages, and totally at the mercy of our corporate owned media that no longer even pretends to give us real news about the state of the world.

So what does our supposedly opposition party do about this? Why, nothing. Our Democratic Party is so inept, so cowardly, so timid, the best they can do is pass a nonbinding resolution that our apparently otherworldly President has already said he will ignore.

So what in the hell is it going to take to do something? A majority of the American people now apparently are in favor of impeachment. Several states have suggested impeachment. The reasons for impeachment are so many and so obvious it is difficult to tell which ones to use. The case for impeachment is so clear cut and obvious it could probably be achieved in little less than an afternoon. What would be the consequences of impeachment? Who cares? Whatever they were, they could not possibly leave us in a condition any more dire than where we are at the moment. Gutless Democrats say they are afraid to cut off funding for the "war" as they would be accused of not supporting the troops. By whom? the 27% of lunatics who still claim to support this evil administration? How better to support the troops than bringing them home safely from a civil war that is none of our business (except for the fact that we created the conditions for it). The obvious solution to this dilemna and to end the "war" is IMPEACHMENT!

Of course in all the discussion over bringing the troops home and ending the "war" and avoiding chaos in Iraq (chaos which already exists), and blah, blah, blah, is the fact that no one mentions. Bush/Cheney (and I am beginning to suspect no one else, including Democrats) have no intention of ever bringing the troops home from Iraq. We are building (or have already completed) permanent bases there. We are finishing an unprecedented half billion dollar embassy as an American outpost in Iraq. We have just about finished our plan to turn over control of Iraqi oil to the major oil companies, and not on terms very favorable to Iraq (Cheney's illicit dream come true). This is why Bush/Cheney can continue to speak of "victory," because closing the deal to control their oil is what the goal has been all along. Who cares about some dead soldiers and thousands of innocent Iraqis, we're about to get our hands on that oil. And until that oil is gone Bush/Cheney are never going to bring our troops home (at least not all of them). "Defeat is not an option." Those who say "victory is not an option" are wrong, because they do not understand the Bush/Cheney definition of victory. If we have to have a never ending war to maintain control of Middle Eastern oil, so be it. Don't it make you right proud to be a Amurican?