The road to hell...

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Remember that old saying, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” This seems to be another line that Dick the Slimy is promoting in his attempt to bamboozle everyone about his war crimes. Part of his argument is that whatever he and Bush did, they did to protect the country. There will no doubt be some who will believe this, but I don’t believe it at all. When we now know that torture was being used to force someone into making a connection between Al Quaida and Saddam Hussein, so Bush/Cheney could use it to justify their illegal “war” with Iraq, how can that be seen as doing it to protect our country? Unless, that is, one could somehow believe that going to “war” with Iraq, that was not a threat to us, was in the best interest of the U.S. (instead of Bush/Cheney’s big oil buddies and other corporations who stood to get away with billions). Promoting a pre-emptive and illegal “war” was in no one’s interest except those individuals and corporations that stood to make money from it. It would be nice, in a way, to believe that these blatant war criminals were acting in the best interest of our country, but they certainly were not. This argument from good intentions is no more convincing than the attempt to drag Nancy Pelosi or other Democrats into it, or the argument that “it worked.” There is no excuse for what they did other than greed and perhaps sadism.

Cheney goes on blithely bragging about his war crimes. Now he has implicated Bush as well. I cannot understand why no one is taking action against them. On the one hand we claim to be a nation of laws, but in this instance that would seem to be just a joke. If their admittance of guilt is not enough, there is a mountain of evidence that demonstrates conclusively what they did. For some reason this does not seem sufficient to motivate our so-called “leaders” to take any action. Remember, Pelosi refused to consider impeachment, saying if she had some evidence to go on she might consider it. There was all kinds of evidence. Now Harry Reid is saying the same thing with respect to Cheney – we need more evidence. This is absolute nonsense. I don’t know what more anyone could possibly want by way of evidence to at least begin to take action. When we have Cheney appearing repeatedly on TV boasting of his crimes, and we have Jonathan Turley, a respected law professor, saying openly on TV they should be held accountable, and Obama and Holder, knowing what should be done, and still nothing seems to be happening to hold these criminals responsible for their absolutely horrid deeds, what can one possibly conclude about a “nation of laws?” I know the wheels of justice work slowly, but this is ridiculous.

Beware of corporations and organizations bearing gifts. This meeting of everyone with an interest in health care, and their offer to save two trillion over the next ten years, is obviously designed to insure that they will all be able to continue enjoy their excessive profits. This is certainly true of the Insurance companies that are simply parasites on the health care system. There is no compelling reason why insurance companies should have anything whatsoever to do with health care. Why should doctors and patients need an insurance middleman to broker health care? But the insurance companies are the ones who would stand to lose out if we had a sensible, reasonable, efficient, and genuine one payer system, so you notice such a system is not even being discussed. Indeed, the fear that we might have a sensible one payer system is so great that proponents of such a system have been forcibly removed from meetings where health care is under discussion. This is almost as shameful as our failure to prosecute the war criminals in our midst.

Newt Gingrich, who at least some people believe is the intellectual of the Republican Party, would seem to me to be that only if it is possible to have an intellectual mental midget. He has now complained that the Democrats, having been in power since 2007, have failed to pass any laws about torture. Apparently he is unaware there already are laws against torture, and have been for a very long time. He often comes up with these intellectual pronouncements that make little or no sense. He is the ultimate example of a great pontificator who pontificates endlessly for the mere sake of pontificating. At least he wasn’t the Republican nitwit who announced today, in defense of the Catholic Church’s persecution of Galileo, “Well, Galileo would have died anyway.” I wonder more and more often these days if Republicans are born that way or shaped that way by their environment. It seems to me there is no other way to explain the preponderance of so many mentally challenged individuals in one organization.

Yes, I think Wanda Sykes went a bit too far when she said she wished Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys would fail, but I suspect she is not the only person who feels that way. I would never say I wished someone would die, not even Rush Limbaugh. I do, however, believe the world would be a better place if there were no Rush Limbaugh, or Beck, or Hannity, or Coulter. Could we find them a remote island somewhere with no means of communication with the rest of the world? I do agree with Wanda that Rush’s wish for American to fail is no different than bin Laden’s and does represent treason or something very close to it. It is a sad commentary on the U.S. when a bloated, racist windbag has so much influence. Cheney says if he had to choose between Limbaugh and Colin Powell he would choose Limbaugh. It is a sad commentary on the U.S. when an evil war criminal is allowed loose on the streets.

LKBIQ:
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
John Adams

TILT:
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