The Injustice of Having to Leave Your Country is Overwhelming

"The problem is that we don't even know if we'll ever see this stuff again. We don't know if whatever we leave, including the house, will be available when and if we come back. There are moments when the injustice of having to leave your country, simply because an imbecile got it into his head to invade it, is overwhelming. It is unfair that in order to survive and live normally, we have to leave our home and what remains of family and friends ... And to what?"

Quote from Riverbend, author of Bagdad Burning blog, talking about leaving her home in Iraq.

Lying, Cronyism, Incompentence and Arrogance

If there ever was a reason to impeach, now is the time!

"Yet each man's (Gonzales and Wolfowitz) latest infractions, however serious, are mere misdemeanors next to their roles in the Iraq war. What's being lost in the Beltway uproar is the extent to which the lying, cronyism and arrogance showcased by the current scandals are of a piece with the lying, cronyism and arrogance that led to all the military funerals that Mr. Bush dares not attend. Having slept through the fraudulent selling of the war, Washington is still having trouble confronting the big picture of the Bush White House. Its dense web of deceit is the deliberate product of its amoral culture, not a haphazard potpourri of individual blunders."

Frank Rich, "Iraq is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac" 22-Apr-2007 as quoted from the NY Times.

If all journalists would read "Bush's Brain", they could relate to all these abysmal amoral tactics that are going on and for which Bush Sr fired Karl Rove. Karl is the reason Gonzales is in hot water and he is the reason that Bush has appointed so many incompetent people to important jobs.

Impeach and Imprison

There are many reasons why President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Attorney General Gonzales should be impeached and then tried and imprisoned. The following is just one reason, but it is surely enough.

"According to virtually every prisoner that has been released, they were tortured while imprisoned in countries such as Syria, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Some prisoners say they were tortured by police or interrogators. Some say they heard American voices in the background while they were tortured.

None were charged with any crimes. None went to trial. They were abducted by CIA or local authorities at the request of the United States. The United States did not present evidence of criminal actions nor request extradition from the country where the person was detained. Nor did a central approving authority look at the rationale for spiriting a person to the control of a third country for interrogation. Persons were “rendered” many times on the say-so of junior CIA officials."

From article by US Army Reserves Colonel (Retired) Ann Wright, 19-Apr-2007 "I Hope It's Your Family Members That Die" as seen in Rawstory.com

If You Invade Someone's Country ....

"If you invade someone’s country, they’re going to fight back. Evidently that wasn’t taught at Yale."

Kurt Vonnegut, in the Guardian 1992 as quoted from "the rude pundit" Vonnegut Gone 12-Apr-2007

As I recall, we weren't too fond of the British, and at least this was their colony. But when they got too oppressive and wanted to extract our resources for their profits, we got annoyed enough to kick them out. Maybe something like that is happening in Iraq.

Bush - Model Straw Man for Corporate Vultures

War is Good ... for any leeches who can make billions off our tax money.

"It's good for war profiteers, Halliburton, GOP no-bid contract campaign contributors, oil companies, Blackwater, other mercenary companies. In fact, its good for any leeches who can make billions of dollars off of our tax money. It's the ultimate partisan pork barrel project, except it sheds a lot of blood.

And then there's pollution and outsourcing to boot!

Bush is the perfect front man for this.

Anyone else might have enough of a conscience to put on the brakes of greed now and then, but not clueless George.

He's the model straw man leader for the corporate vultures who feed on the bodies of our GIs and dead Iraqis.

They were the same people who brought you the death squads in Central America..."

Buzzflash.com book review of "Wars? Pollution? Outsourcing? Republicans call it Good Business"
11-Apr-2007.