Tue Nov-04-08 09:07 PM

Validating Our Hopes and Dreams

THE election of Barack Obama will be a validation of hope. It will be an affirmation of the hope of millions of voters, including many who have never believed in the political system before - some old enough to remember when there were very real barriers to their participation.

The value of his election will be a suspension of apathy for many; hopefully, enough to spark the kind of attention to the workings of our political system that we will need to motivate our legislators into action and to effect the changes we're seeking.

Abraham Lincoln, a legislator from Obama's Illinois, spoke about our sacred right and responsibility to vigilance and participation in our government as he measured the task before him.

"If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail, by the judgment of this great tribunal, the American people," he said. "By the frame of the government under which we live, these same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals."

Through our nation's faith, and in the trust we place in our representatives that they would be humbled to serve the will of the people, and by their good judgment lead, we have been betrayed by a ruling-class oligarchy which has perpetuated its role and influence in our governance; not by the quality of their service, but through the advantages of patronage and association.

This departing republican administration is a reflection of that tiny percentage of the nation's citizens who have maintained their wealth and influence through the last century. Despite the persistent poverty of generations of Americans who work and struggle with no guarantee of success or survival, this same working-class of people routinely elevate these power-brokers to the cadre of the privileged few who would lord over their wealth in the offices of our government.

With our votes, cast for hollow promises of representation in the division and disposition of our contributions of blood and sacrifice, we got no more than spattered remains of precious meal from a pig's trough. And in turn, we assure their ascendency to that two-percent confederation of corporate interests who routinely divide the fruits of our labor for their own benefit and purpose.

What is the power for mischief in the short interval of an imperial presidency? It is in the executive looting of our tax dollars and the bankrupting of our government to further enrich that ruling class oligarchy; to enrich that two-percent confederation of corporate interests in our government who perpetuate their class in and out of office by manipulating our precious contributions to democracy; from federal appropriations; to corporate tax breaks; and through sly deregulation schemes that allow them to slough off their responsibilities to worker safety, or to the protection of the community and the environment.

The power for mischief is in the unelected, unchecked executive appointments gifted by this two-percent confederation to their power-driven lackeys, to lord over our regulatory agencies; to infect and obstruct the very institutions which are there to protect and assist the common citizen; by under-funding them and intimidating the public servants; barely allowing the emasculated institutions to survive; giving them a reluctance to respond to any but the entrenched, moneyed interests.

The power for mischief is in the systematic targeting and suppression by the forces of our executive government, of groups and individuals who raise their voices in disagreement with its practices or policies. And the mischief is in the arbitrary expulsion, without due process, of those who would immigrate to America and dare to criticize their benefactor.

What is the power for mischief in the short interval of an imperial presidency? The power for mischief is in an unelected, star-chamber Supreme Court whose life-appointed justices huddle to decide whether to halt the counting of the votes in a presidential election.

The power for mischief is in the ascendence of a counterfeit loser who would govern with the approval of less than half of those who actually voted.

The power for mischief is a chastened electorate, who rightly believe that their government has turned its back on their interests and concerns and intends to hijack their labor and their fortunes to assist a shallow set of corporate interests; to effect the dismantling of our compact, and the usurping of our democracy.

The mischief is in a dwindling participation in the political process by the nation's disenfranchised majority who are too afraid, or too disillusioned to dislodge these monied usurpers; or too busy in their own struggle to involve themselves in a close examination of the deliberate tangle of legislation.

The power for mischief is a cynical electorate who turns away from the political process and leaves the division of the product of our labor and sacrifice to those who have the least needs or merit.

The mischief is in a manipulated foreign policy which exploits the resources of the defenseless around the world for the benefit of a minority of industry leeches.

The power for mischief is in a trumped-up, bloody invasion of a sovereign country and in the theft of its oil and its resources. The power is in the occupation and auctioning of the vanquished country's industry away from its citizens.

And it's in the shackling of countless generations of Americans to a corporate agenda of U.S. world domination, supported by the perpetual sacrifice of the lives and blood of generations of our sons and daughters in a continuous world war.

We must care enough to involve ourselves in every instigation of democracy which confronts us. Our government is a reflection of everything we choose to neglect and every cynical impulse we reflect. Bill Clinton once said that "cynicism is a luxury."

Those in power who are motivated by greed will show up every day to collect their share, and ours as well. Can we afford to turn away and let all of the negative influences have the floor to themselves?

We have to come to grips with our individual responsibility to vigilance. We have to show up every day to make certain the government is representing all of the people; not just the corporate few who show up every day to collect our money. They will always fill the halls of Congress with their favors, bribes, and obstruction.

As my old friend, Guy Washington used to say, "Good always leaves, but bad comes to stay."

Through our virtue and our vigilance we must continue to advocate and petition our government to work for peace - here in the United States and around the world - with our voices, with our written appeals and protests, and with our actions.

Through our virtue and our vigilance we must keep ourselves informed about those issues and concerns which we entrust to the bidding of those in Congress; and we must thoroughly involve ourselves in the process of resolving those issues and concerns in tandem with our legislators by challenging ourselves to read, watch and listen; with a respect and a desire for understanding of differing views and opinions in our deliberation and debate.

Through our virtue and our vigilance we must, in our respect for democracy, value and protect the right to vote. With our full participation in the voting process we promote respect for our nation and each other, and help ensure an equal chance for representation for all of our citizens in the deliberations of our government. Our vote is the instrument of our collective conscience and our warrant to the realization of our freedom, our liberty, and our well-being.

Through our virtue and our vigilance we must challenge our government, ourselves, and one another, to act with more mercy and compassion as we marshal our resources to aid communities; to alleviate poverty, hunger, and want, here at home and around the world.

We must challenge ourselves to provide for the health needs of all of those who fall ill or injured in this country; to reach out to other countries to assist in the halting of the effects of deadly, infectious diseases and other illnesses; to provide full support and access for those with disabilities and handicaps.

We must challenge our government to make certain that there is adequate, safe, affordable housing for all; to provide emergency aid and assistance for our country; and when needed around the world, distributing these resources and this assistance in an equitable manner.

Through our virtue and our vigilance we must demand that our government promote and practice respect for the environment in our own lands and with respect for the sovereignty of those lands which don't belong to us. We must maintain these values as we protect the ground, water, and the air against pollution and abuse, by government, from industry, or from individuals.

We must challenge our government and ourselves to advocate and enforce these values; through the regulation of industry and of individuals; through enactment and enforcement of environmental laws; by our stewardship and expansion of those lands we recognize and designate as vital to the preservation of our ecosystem, to wildlife, and to the safety of the citizens of our communities.

We must foster in our government a respect for the preservation of the balance of all of nature and its right to coexist with humanity without risk of devastation, destruction, or disruption, or neglect.

Through our virtue and our vigilance we must foster and nurture our respect for each other; in the sharing of our burdens; in our willingness to make reasonable compromises; in our awareness and responsiveness to the needs and concerns of the least fortunate among us.

We must foster and nurture our respect for each other in the acceptance and appreciation of our differences- not merely to tolerate them- but to explore, celebrate and learn from our different backgrounds, our different abilities, our diverse heritages and nationalities, and our many different religions and beliefs.

Through our virtue and our vigilance we must challenge our government, and ourselves, to be humble; in our words and in our actions; in our acceptance of our mistakes; to admit when we act wrongfully as nations and individuals; to bend ourselves to judgment and lend our support to justice; We must accept our limitations and learn to accept help when offered.

Through our virtue and our vigilance we must instill in our lives and encourage in the acts of our government, a faithfulness to the values of honesty, integrity, and justice.

We must challenge and demand from our government, a respect for the privacy of individuals; the rights of individuals to due process of law; protection from unlawful or unreasonable surveillance and searches; protection from any actions by governments, groups, or individuals to suppress protest, dissent or disagreement.

We must challenge and demand from our government, protection from unlawful or unreasonable arrest, detention, separation or deportation; and the rights of individuals to be informed and to inform others of actions by the government or its agents to restrict, degrade, or eviscerate our life, liberty, safety, or freedom.

Through our virtue and our vigilance we expect and demand protection by our government from injury, abuse, exploitation, corruption, or enslavement.
We demand protection of our natural resources from theft, abuse, or neglect, as well as, insurance against the unforeseen, sometimes destructive force of nature.

We demand protection and defense against workplace abuse, accident, or neglect; defense against those who would do us harm, either as individuals or as a nation; and protection from the unreasonable and unlawful excesses and tyrannies of the majorities, in our government and wherever they threaten.

At Edwardsville, Illinois, on September 11, 1858, Abraham Lincoln said, "What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoast, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not the reliance against the resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle."

"Our reliance is in the love of liberty, which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is the preservation of the spirit, which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere." Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your down doors."

"Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage," Lincoln warned, and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."

Abraham Lincoln insisted that in his opposition to slavery, an adherence to the principles of liberty and individual rights which are embodied in the Declaration of Independence, would more than provide for the preservation of the Union. "In my hands," he spoke, "is the task of restoring peace to the present distracted condition of the country. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the motherland," he said, "but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time."

"It was that," Lincoln said, "which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men."

In Barack Obama's hands is the task of restoring, not only prosperity at home, but, peace abroad. His unswerving focus on harnessing the power of the American people by challenging us to believe in our own roles in the disposition of our government will be extremely important if he can manage to translate that hope and belief into action and initiative.

For now, though, Barack Obama has most eloquently and effectively captured our attention with his inclusive and inspiring campaign. That may well be his most enduring and constructive contribution to our democracy.~




War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. -- James Madison

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Saturday, March 14, 2009
Emerging Outlines of Obama's Afghanistan Plan
"I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region solely through military means," Obama told the CBC in February.



Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Proud Democratic Owners of the Afghanistan Occupation
There is something undeniably transformative about our Democratic president's escalation of the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan beyond Bush's own level of prosecution of his mission there.



Friday, February 27, 2009
Enter the Era of Engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan
If the president's 'era of engagement' is to take root in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the State Dept. will have to emerge as more than the afterthought and support to military action that it had become in the last administration.



Thursday, February 19, 2009
Asking Our Allies for More in Afghanistan
It's no wonder to find our allies reluctant to commit themselves to more of a mission which has yet to be defined in any significant or comprehensive way



Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Our Military's Enduring Future in Afghanistan
"I think Afghanistan is still winnable," Pres. Obama said.



Saturday, February 14, 2009
Intelligence Czar Blair's Economic Warnings Echo the Past
The economy and 'U.S. strategic interests' were on Blair's mind Thursday as he warned about a threat he perceived from Venezuela and the oil-rich country's growing economic ties with Iran.



Saturday, February 7, 2009
Biden Commits to 'Missile Defenses' to Counter Unspecific Threat from Iran
"We will continue to develop missile defenses to counter a growing Iranian capability, provided the technology is proven to work and cost-effective." -Vice-President Biden, speaking in Munich, Germany Feb. 7



Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Fearmongering Beyond the Bunker
Now it is time for these miserable stewards of the public trust to find their respective hidey-holes and burrow-in against the coming wave of legal and public prosecutions for their crimes and abuses in office.



Monday, January 26, 2009
Will Obama's Militarism Obscure and Overshadow his Diplomacy?
Even as the Obama administration moves to tear down the symbols and mechanisms of the previous WH and Pentagon, the remnants of the occupations and our nation's aggressive military posture endure.



Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Changing al-Qaeda's Script
NOTHING must have thrilled al-Qaeda more than to hear Bush read off passages of propaganda from the terrorists' own speeches and dispatches



Saturday, January 3, 2009
Tweaking the Occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan
At the apex of the results and effects of resistance to the increased and proliferating U.S. military presence and activity in the Mideast over the years since the Iraq invasion, the Pentagon is poised to stage some sort of sustaining defense in Afghanistan of their own representation of 'democracy' in Kabul.



Saturday, December 27, 2008
Funding, Arming, and Training Iraqis and Afghans to Fight Their Fellow Countrymen
Is funding and encouraging these young men to take up arms against their fellow citizens on behalf of U.S. interests really the best course out of these destructive, cynical occupations?



Sunday, December 7, 2008
Bush Holdover Robert Gates: A Kinder, Gentler Shock and Awe
Is this proposed 'surge' of force to defend the Afghanistan capital be the testing ground for Mr. Gates' new 'counterinsurgency' strategy? To me, it looks like the same old smash and grab approach that he's busy repudiating for benefit of the intellectuals



Saturday, December 6, 2008
Obama's Holdovers in Pentagon Leadership Still Pushing Hard for New Generation of Nuclear Weapons The hook they use to justify waging their new-generation arms race: If they don't get their way - to fiddle with and refurbish the existing nukes - they'll argue that deterrence is at risk and new weapons are needed



Sunday, October 19, 2008
Behind the Swift Armor of Our Democracy To the dismay of the ultra far-right wing of the republican party and those who respond to McCain/Palin's narrow, scapegoating appeal, there isn't going to be a gentleman's response to their boorish, cowardly attempt to cast Americans they disagree onto the other side of their ideological battlefield, expecting the rest of us to line up behind them.



Sunday, October 5, 2008
Deface the Banner of the Nation for an Idle Rag
As voters reflect on the anxiety and anger they feel watching the orchestrated economic emergency directed by the republican White House, they should pay close attention to the associations McCain has chosen to help elevate himself into the presidency.




Thursday, September 11, 2008
A Day of Observing Bush's Blame for Allowing Al-Qaeda Safe Haven
Having our nation's defenders defend plots of land from fugitives the administration has allowed "safe haven" hundreds of miles away sounds to them like a perfect cover for their deliberate negligence.




Thursday, August 28, 2008
Celebrating Obama's Blackness
The fact of Barack Obama's blackness hasn't really been explicitly highlighted or overtly vocalized by the major speakers who've stepped up to the podium to sing his praises, or even by the candidate himself.




Thursday, August 21, 2008
Bush and McCain's Reckless Adventurism
Bush and McCain have demonstrated a reckless disregard of those who they expect to prosecute their opportunistic agenda, and of those who they claim to be defending with their unbridled and reflexive militarism.




Tuesday, August 19, 2008
McCain's Cabal of Nation-Builders and Money Grubbers
What is it that John McCain wants to 'win' in Iraq? Is his open-ended support for keeping our troops bogged down there tied to his foreign policy guru Scheunemann's profit-taking and deal-making?




Saturday, August 16, 2008
Calling the Bluff on the Limits of American Power and Influence
The only way to achieve and maintain the necessary diplomatic relationships to successfully influence Russia's behavior is for the U.S. to return to a level of moral authority it had when we first began to draw Russia in, and that Bush has squandered with his opportunistic militarism.




Friday, August 15, 2008
McCain and the Same Old Kneejerk Militarism
The scramble by McCain in the wake of Russia's invasion of the Republic of Georgia to rattle and brandish sabers he does not yet possess or control devolved this week into a mimic of the Cold War as the Arizona senator revealed to the world that he intends to wield an even heavier, more dense hand than the warmonger-in-chief has brandished through this crisis.




Wednesday, August 13, 2008
John McCain Stands With Bigots and Racists
John McCain stands with bigots and racists as he practices a derisive campaign which he's reserved for his black rival for the presidency alone.




Friday, August 8, 2008
Lincoln Group Propagandists Paid to Tell Afghans Their Bombs are Worse than Ours
No amount of PR can convince Afghans that the repressive U.S. military takeover of their country is any more pernicious that the violence from those resisting Bush's self-serving assaults in defense of his puppet in Kabul.



Monday, August 4, 2008
Old Man McCain and his Degenerating Principles
Who knows what this old man will decide is important if he gets into office; his legacy, or ours?




Friday, August 1, 2008
McCain's Desperate Appeal to the Bigots
John McCain has begun to speak for that shameful class of Americans who have predicated their own worth on their perception of blacks they compete with as inferior.




Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Embracing Obama's Agenda Abroad
Britain's Brown is the latest foreign leader to re-arrange his Iraq portfolio to accommodate views of the next U.S. president, Barack Obama.




Tuesday, July 22, 2008
McCain Pining for Another Stroll Through the Baghdad Market, Sans Flackjacket
John McCain is pining for the day when he returns for a "peaceful stroll" through the Iraqi markets -- this time "walking freely", as he claimed he could during his last visit to the war-zone -- without the benefit of a bulletproof vest, 100 American soldiers, three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships providing cover overhead.




Monday, July 21, 2008
Bush Offers "Time Horizons" for an Iraq Withdrawal
In a cynical attempt to appeal to the potential U.S. voters who've soured on the Iraq quagmire, the administration has replaced the language of a timeline for withdrawal with a codification of their refusal to relinquish their Iraqi prize.




Saturday, July 19, 2008
Barack Obama Redefines the "Center" of our Nation's Defense Against Terror
As Sen. Obama has done, Democrats and others opposed to the Iraq occupation who continue to acknowledge Bush's 'terror war' should oblige him and aggressively tie it to the quagmire in Iraq and his wallowing failures elsewhere in the world.




Thursday, January 31, 2008
Republican Candidates' Extremes on Iraq Make Democrats' Hedging (Mostly) Irrelevant
If there is a judgment made by the vast majority of Americans favoring a hasty withdrawal from Iraq, which is based on these republicans candidates' marriage to Bush's stubborn refusal to disengage, there can be no other option but to support one of the Democratic nominees




Monday, January 28, 2008
Bush Surging Into Oblivion
The irony of a landmark presidential election to replace Bush -- drowning out his legacy appeal -- should not be lost on even one so ignorant as to escalate and highlight the agenda millions will mass together to oppose with their votes on election day.




Monday, January 14, 2008
Bush's Perversion of Democracy in the Middle East
Our lame-duck militarist is heading to Saudi Arabia, Monday, with a $20 billion gift basket of advanced weaponry for the anti-democratic, royal regime. That's how much this administration cares about democracy.




Friday, January 11, 2008
Twelve More Months of Bush's Ecclesiastic Mideast Mission
Bush is traveling in the Mideast, seeking to craft a miracle of his own out of empty, confrontational rhetoric and produce "Mideast peace" for a region which is awash in violence; much of it perpetrated by a growing number of martyrs and militants in resistance to his own bloody, military expansion into Iraq and Afghanistan.




Thursday, January 3, 2008
Is Bush Finished Fighting Terrorists He Created in Iraq?
IT'S the beginning of January, and, this month finds the U.S. commanding general in Iraq satisfied that the Iraqis are going to fill the gaps left by retreating Americans and carry on with the last remaining hook the administration has used to justify their continuing occupation; the routing of 'Iraqi al-Qaeda'




Sunday, December 30, 2007
Bush's Sham of Democracy in Pakistan (and Iraq)
The Bush administration will be satisfied when Pakistan's government settles back into a political posture which they can claim has the legitimacy of an election -- no matter how compromised or corrupted that election may be.




Thursday, December 27, 2007
Bush's Falling Dominoes
BHUTTO is dead in Pakistan, and there's going to be a flurry of accusations of blame from her supporters and from her detractors as well. But, for Americans who are left to witness the reactions and retaliations, there should be no doubt that the assassination is a direct hit on the Bush administration's blundering attempts to shape their foreign policy around their manufactured aggression in Iraq.




Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Bush's Democrats on Iraq
At every point where Democrats were to hold the line on their demands (our demands) for a timetable or a mere commitment that Bush bring our troops home by a date certain, Democrats have done nothing but posture, and then, bend . . .




Monday, December 17, 2007
The Epiphany of an Iraq Withdrawal
As Britain has just demonstrated - and as our own forces in Iraq have repeatedly demonstrated with their own retreat from provinces in Iraq they had so wantonly defended for so long with the lives of thousands of our nation's defenders - there will be no measure of 'success' or 'victory' from Bush's occupation to be found, no matter how long we stay or how many resistant Iraqis our soldiers manage to kill.




Monday, December 3, 2007
Bush Will Take Everything Congress Will Allow Him in Iraq
Bush has openly signaled his intention to stage a quiet coup of sorts - within the liberating bounds of his assumed presidency - over the most controlling lever of constitutional authority those we elect to Congress have over the Executive's ability to wage war; their ability to provide or withhold money.




Thursday, November 22, 2007
American Gangsters in the White House
THIS generation's 'American Gangsters' are imminently more dangerous and pernicious than the pimps, drug dealers, and thieves who roam and rule over our nation's most vulnerable and malleable citizens. This generation's ruling class of thugs have been elevated to the highest levels of our government by Bush and his corporatist cronies.




Sunday, November 18, 2007
Reversing Bush's Imposed Legacy in the Next Administration
WHEN, and if, Bush leaves office it will take an internal revolution by the next administration to reverse and undo the damage he's done to our democracy at home and to our influence and relationship with other countries around the world.




Friday, November 16, 2007
Brushing Off Nagging Suspicions of a Bush Coup
It's becoming difficult to imagine Bush and his cronies voluntarily relinquishing the gains they've achieved through their own anti-democratic maneuvering and obstruction.




Thursday, November 15, 2007
Bush's (and America's) Tepid Response to Tyranny in Pakistan
Where's the outrage from this administration who has postured as caretakers and defenders of democracy around the world? Where's the outrage from our presidential candidates? Where have they shown the appropriate solidarity with Pakistan's (incarcerated) presidential aspirants?




Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Benazir Bhutto shows courage and determination in calling for Musharraf's ouster
If there is any sincerity at all in Bush's bleatings about the importance of 'freedom,' 'liberty,' or democracy, he will need to rethink his interfering expressions of confidence in Musharraf and acknowledge the courage and determination of opposition leaders like Ms. Bhutto and her supporters as they struggle to make democracy in Pakistan more than the mere political rhetoric he is so 'positive' about.




Monday, November 12, 2007
Mercenaries for Bush's Notion of Freedom and Democracy in Iraq
Instead of applauding Bush in his ignorance, veterans who actually know firsthand, the value of freedom and liberty should mass together against any further mockery of those sentiments which they fought so valiantly for, long ago, when tyrants and dictators weren't treated as paid mercenaries in support of some narrow political agenda conjured-up by autocrats who profess to be our democratic leaders.




Sunday, November 11, 2007
Declarations of Dictators and Autocrats in Pakistan and the U.S.
There is nothing that the Bush administration can really say which can have any moral impact on Musharraf's tyranny, because they have no moral authority left.




Wednesday, November 7, 2007
A noun, a verb, 9-11 . . . and pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, and lesbians
Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani today.




Monday, November 5, 2007
Bush and Musharraf's Self-Serving Definition of Democracy
Bush and Cheney must be watching in pride (and envy) as their protege' in Pakistan deftly manipulates the absolute power manifest in his control over his country's military. It's a familiar posture to our own lame-duck militarists in the White House who've cast their every anti-democratic abuse of power as a defense of our national security.




Saturday, November 3, 2007
Bush's Expectations of Normalcy in Iraq
Bush is looking for a few "normal" Iraqis who share his definition of "freedom" and share his definition of a "normal society," to put aside the animosities his invasion and occupation have aggravated and heightened and allow the Iraqi regime he helped install behind the sacrifices of our military to reign supreme without resistance.




Thursday, November 1, 2007
Petraeus Rehabilitates Chalabi in Iraq
Once again Chalabi is being employed by the Bush administration as their front man for their arbitrary assaults on Iraqis and their military takeover of the sovereign Iraqi territory.




Thursday, October 25, 2007
Not One More Dime to Continue the Iraq Occupation
There isn't even a bit of pretense left of any reasonable or acceptable justification for remaining in Iraq that anyone serious about their opposition to the occupation should accept or support with a vote for more tax dollars thrown into the money pit.




Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Iraqis Looking to U.N. to Limit Bloody U.S. Mission
Under the guise of preserving the Iraqi regime Bush has installed behind the sacrifices and deadly power of our military forces, our soldiers are now reduced to staging contrived assaults against Iraqi civilians.




Monday, October 22, 2007
For the Bush Regime and Iran, Freedom's Just Another Word
Dick Cheney, on Sunday, opened up his own heightened, rhetorical assault against the imaginary nuclear weapons program his White House and others have conjured up in their exploitative campaign against the sovereign, Iranian nation's pursuit of nuclear energy.




Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Defending Against their al-Qaeda Failure at the Site of their Iraq Folly
"Facing" down bin-Laden and Zawahiri where they aren't would seem to be the most ignorant and backward strategy that anyone could devise. But to the White House, sending our troops to fight and die in Iraq makes perfect sense -- having them defend plots of land from fugitives the administration has allowed "safe haven" hundreds of miles away.




Thursday, October 4, 2007
Meet the New Shills on Iran, Same as the old Shills on Iraq
Many of the same think-tank operators who had been intimately involved in crafting the Bush administration's response to the 9-11 attacks, insisting that invading and occupying Iraq would be a cakewalk, are now working to cover their bloody disaster - attempting to shift focus from their debacle to the next domino in their strategy to expand the U.S. military presence and influence in the Mideast: Iran




Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Weathering Ahmadinejad's Ideological Assault on New York
In the proper forum for any "ideological" battle -- a discussion, instead of a bloody, destabilizing invasion and occupation -- Ahmadinejad gave as good as he's got, without a ripple of the unrest, chaos, and destruction that Bush has caused waging his own in Iraq.




Friday, September 21, 2007
Politicians Pressing our Troops Forward in Iraq
It's not fair or right -- as Bush, McCain, and other republican enablers of this continuing occupation want us to accept -- to pursue 'success' for every politician's ambition in Iraq behind their sacrifices and sell it as a path to some victory. At some point, republicans in Congress should be made to tell us who they believe are more important.




Friday, September 14, 2007
Bush's Enduring Militarism in Iraq
The "enduring relationship" that Bush claims Iraq's embattled leaders are clamoring for is less about the protection requested by his Iraqi junta, than that relationship intends for Iraq to be used as a staging ground for even more opportunistic militarism in the future from the military capitalists who've been allowed to infect our government during his autocratic reign.




Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Republicans Accept 1000+ More American Deaths in Iraq
What is it about the Maliki regime in Iraq which has enamored so many republicans to the point that they've become satisfied with the numbers of Americans killed in defense of the increasingly autocratic authority?




Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Petraeus' Betrayal on Iraq
The general and his commander are betraying the demonstrated will of the American people that they bring an end to their occupation. They have, in fact, betrayed us in their coordinated refusal to allow our troops to stand down from their dubious Iraq mission.




Monday, September 10, 2007
Dictating Down to Americans from 9-11 to Iraq
Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq has be the realization al-Qaeda's dreams. Bush and his republican apologists can twist the facts every which way they want, but their diversion from the hunt for bin-Laden and his accomplices in Afghanistan to invade and occupy Iraq has to have been the single, most blundering appeasement of terrorist violence by our government ever.




Thursday, September 6, 2007
If You Liked the Past Half-Decade of Bush's Blundering Militarism . . .
If you're a fan of the over half a decade of blundering militarism the republicans have produced and perpetuated with their obstinacy against the demonstrated will of the American people that they allow a withdraw from Iraq, then you should be more than happy with this privileged republican band of warmongers running for president.




Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Progress and Successes of the Bush and Maliki Regime
Most Americans (and Iraqis) are left to wonder, as Bush and Maliki are crowing about their 'successes' and 'progress' in Iraq, whether these lame-duck partners are referring to advantages they've achieved for their citizenry, or if they're just bragging on their own ability to sustain themselves in power and authority over the rest of us at our own deadly expense.




Saturday, September 1, 2007
Politics of Blocking Bush's Ambitions in Iraq
-Bush wants Americans to regard his every action toward Iraq as vital and void of any political motive as he insists Democrats who seek to end his increased occupation could only be motivated by craven politics as they oppose him.




Thursday, August 30, 2007
Fighting and Dying in Iraq to Make Room for Politicians
Politicians in Iraq, and politicians here at home, can always find room for their politics. It doesn't take an occupying army to get them to work out their political differences.




Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Radical U.S. Extremists in Iraq Threaten Iran
After bombing Iran with his new nuclear bunker-busters, in every spot Bush claims the 'underground nuclear bunkers' he imagines are located, self-described 'democracy czar' Elizabeth Cheney would be ready to fly in a compliant sampling of Iranian exiles to assume power after they chase Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into his own hidey-hole.




Sunday, August 26, 2007
Military Mobilizes for Media War Against American Opinion on Iraq
The U.S. military is engaged in a new (additional) effort to organize and manipulate news and info from Iraq to their favor in an effort they hope will allow their bias to filter out to the American public. A branch has been created within the Pentagon which would provide U.S. propaganda on Iraq 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week to coincide with the release of Petraeus' Iraq report in September




Saturday, August 25, 2007
Robbing Us Blind from FEMA to Iraq
From FEMA to Iraq, the president and his right-wing pied-mynas have done nothing but attend to their own pocketbooks at the expense of everyone in their path. It's clear they're still confident they can manipulate this administration and their republican enablers in Congress to continue to do their bidding.




Friday, August 24, 2007
Bush Still Listening to Words of the Terrorists
Nothing must thrill al-Qaeda more than to hear Bush read off passages of propaganda from the terrorists' own speeches and dispatches.




Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Fighting the Vietnam War in Iraq
So, the nation's most prominent draft dodger wants to tell Americans how much of a mistake it was to pull our soldiers out of Vietnam. Bush would reopen those wounds, just to further his political agenda to escape a verdict of defeat for his failed Iraq misadventure.




Saturday, August 18, 2007
Superpower Gone Bad
Effective with the illegal invasion, occupation and overthrow of the sovereign government of Iraq, and the occupation of Afghanistan, George Bush validated bin-Laden's justifications about an imperialist America bent on the destruction of the Muslim way of life and the imposition of our own aberrant ideology through the deadly force of our military.




Wednesday, August 15, 2007
More Breathing Room for a New Iraqi Government Facade?
Whatever government facade Maliki manages to cobble together, that effort shouldn't find any 'patience or will' from Congress to allow Bush to continue indefinitely while they wait for the new cast of Iraqi players to provide a more efficient mimic of democracy than they have so far.




Monday, August 13, 2007
Striking Out at Bush's Phantoms in Iraq
- Whatever the intentions of the Maliki regime, it can't serve his efforts at reconciliation to have Bush flailing our forces all around Iraq in defense against whatever nemesis he conjures.




Thursday, August 9, 2007
Media Models New Bush Cloak for Continuing in Iraq
- While Bush and his generals in Iraq busy themselves with softening up the U.S. political battlefield by pointing to their deadly intimidation of the Iraqis in the areas they've occupied in their 'surge,' the casualties are still mounting -- and the Iraqi regime is still just a Potamkin Village for the democracy they claim our nation's defenders are fighting and dying for.




Friday, August 3, 2007
Breathing Space in Iraq and the Benchmark of Withdrawal
If the almost 700 Americans who were killed in Iraq since the beginning of Bush's "surge" were responsible for providing the political "breathing space" he wanted to give the Iraqi government; those tragic deaths have unquestionably been in vain.




Sunday, July 29, 2007
Bush's FISA Duck and Cover
The reason Bush is suddenly so eager to have Congress pass a series of accommodations to the Justice Dept's questionable exercise of the surveillance law is to preempt any other legal challenge (like a perjury charge) which might force them to end their illegal schemes.




Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Peace on earth, just as soon as we win this war
As the Bush administration casts al-Qaeda as the most pernicious instigator in Iraq's civil war, there is the paradox of America's own aggravating influence.




Friday, July 13, 2007
Bloody Prelude to a September Alibi in Iraq
- In their September alibi, Bush and his generals are destined to just provide more cover for the Iraqi regime's summer stall by referring Congress, again, to the Iraqis our combating forces have succeeded in cowing or killing while they're waiting for parliament members to return from their privileged August retreats.




Monday, July 9, 2007
Who's Really Responsible for Defending the Iraqi Regime?
There is a deep dependency developed by the Iraqi regime on the escalating sacrifice of American lives in their defense which George Bush has allowed to become as routine as the deaths are pervasive.




Monday, June 18, 2007
Bush and his generals substituting their judgment for the American peoples' in Iraq
Generals will always find a 'way forward' on the battlefield, but it should be the determination of our civilian leadership - which carries their mandate directly from the American people - just who our forces will be tasked with laying down their lives to defend or fight against; not the military.




Saturday, June 16, 2007
Our Troops Are Dying For The Iraqi Regime To Get On With Their Politics
It's a wonder to hear Gates threatening the Iraqi regime with the prospected deaths of our soldiers, as if Iraqis actually cared to notice the 3500 Americans killed among the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis lost in the chaos caused by Bush's invasion and occupation.




Wednesday, June 13, 2007
How many will Bush allow to die in Iraq before he gets his "benchmarks?"
The Iraqi junta will never stop asking for more blood from our soldiers to defend their puppetry.



Saturday, June 9, 2007
Bush's Gift to the Military Industry: A New Cold War Arms Race with Russia
(5 comments) There is absolutely no evidence that Iran even possesses missiles threatening the U.S or has threatened the U.S. with missiles, yet, this entire escalation of concern which has supposedly prompted the Bush regime to step up the hawking of these dubious, destabilizing missile systems throughout Europe is predicated on their claims of an Iranian threat.




Friday, June 1, 2007
Bush Looking To Pass The Buck On Iraq
It's clear that Bush intends for a significant contingent of our military to remain in Iraq - not only "for as long as he's president," but for generations to follow - to either maintain his imagined legacy as a 'defender of freedom' or to "pass the buck" and muddle the record of his failure with their own misfortune and missteps.




Saturday, May 26, 2007
The Specter of Bush's Terror War
All Bush and Cheney really have in their pocket is a ghost of bin-Laden that they are able to wave around as they hype their self-appointed roles as protectors and shrug off their congressionally-mandated roles as pursuers. No one has seen the egotistical, opportunistic orchestrator of violent resistance to the U.S. brand of imperialism in the Mideast and elsewhere in public in years.




Friday, May 18, 2007
Lame-Duck Bleating of Progress and Success in Iraq
It's ridiculous for the invaders and occupiers of a nation so thoroughly engulfed in the civil war sparked by their own continued aggression to speak of 'progress' and 'success' in reconciling the warring factions while they are busy and intent on ramping-up their own one-sided part in the violence.




Wednesday, May 16, 2007
It's Never Enough For Bush and His Minions In Iraq
Bush and his minions are satisfied enough with the world of enemies they've created and are cultivating, that they're willing to pile even more chips on our nation's shoulders for any and all comers to knock off.




Saturday, May 12, 2007
Bush Can't Sell His Occupation If His Junta's Telling Him To Leave
-As both Bush and Cheney were giving lip service to the notion that time was running out for the Maliki regime to follow through on their political promises, legislators in Iraq's parliament were busy gathering commitments from members to set a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal.




Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Bloody September In Iraq
If we multiply the results of their escalation so far, and project the increase in casualties the administration and the military say they expect as a result of their increased deployments and escalated aggression against the Iraqi communities they've occupied, we can easily predict what September in Iraq will bring.




Thursday, May 3, 2007
Bush Is Not Only Satisfied With The Sacrifices Of Our Troops, He's Eager For More
- It's ludicrous -- for most Americans and most Iraqis -- that there's an expectation that the Iraqi regime would engineer some legislative machinations behind the intimidating influence of our occupying army and call it democracy.




Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Who Will Ultimately Control Iraq? Bush or the Shiite Majority?
Earlier in the month, at the assumed direction of Sadr, thousands of residents of Sadr City headed to Najaf and rallied against the occupation. Those thousands of peaceful protesters could easily be transformed into an overwhelming 'surge' of Iraqi humanity in the streets which could bring a new reality to the puny coalition forces as they are confronted by an exasperated population of Iraqi millions.




Saturday, April 14, 2007
No Greater Promoters and Protectors of Al-Qaeda in America
Bin-Laden 'won' when we pulled the bulk of our nation's defenders away from the hunt for the terrorist and his accomplices, and drew Iraqis (and others) into armed resistance against the U.S. invasion and occupation. The 9-11 terrorists 'win' every day that we sacrifice more lives consolidating power in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of just hunting them down.



Friday, April 13, 2007
How About A 'Peace Czar' Instead?
The search for a 'war czar' by the Bush White House is, at first blush, a reflection of the indifference and disinterest of the nation's top Executive in assuming any of the responsibility for his bloody overthrows and occupations. But it's actually just another grab for power by this increasingly autocratic administration.




Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Bush Enamored with the Sound of His Own Voice on Iraq
It's one thing for Bush to ignore the colloquial expressions of the will of Americans in the last election; it's another to swagger beyond the legislative will of the representatives and senators they sent to Washington to hold him accountable.




Sunday, April 8, 2007
Bush Is Playing Chicken With Our Troops In Iraq
Bush has decided to subvert Congress' intent by stringing out our military forces to the degree that they suffer shortages affecting their safety, security, and well-being. It's not the money which has been denied Bush; it's a denial of permission for the continuation of his open-ended occupation.




Saturday, April 7, 2007
The Most Dangerous Untruths About Iraq
-Bush and Cheney are dangerous for America. Americans can't afford any more of their reckless indifference to the plights of our soldiers, or to the inevitable and continuing consequences of their assaults against Iraqis.




Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Rallying Around Our Democratic Leadership On Iraq
By railing against the Democratic Iraq withdrawal legislation with such strident rhetoric, Bush actually boosted support for their effort and made it appear that, despite his complaints to the contrary, it was a result of his own opposition to the Democratic funding bill that troops would be denied the money he claimed they needed.

Thursday, March 29, 2007
The Decider's in Denial Over Democracy
- Bush will not allow himself to be easily awakened from his imperial dream-state or willingly step down from the phony throne he fashioned for himself atop the mountain of rubble of debris and humanity from the attacks of 9-11; the mountain he hurried to climb with his bullhorn to declare himself protector, ruler, and owner of the world.




Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Beating Bush's Swords Into Plowshares
All of the 'pork' Bush and his republican enablers are complaining about in the Iraq spending bill is actually a down-payment on a long-overdue shift in priorities; from Bush's waging of his military occupation in Iraq, back to focusing on the needs and concerns of Americans




Sunday, March 18, 2007
Commander Bush is Hamstrung by Democracy
The Supreme Court during WW2 ruled that Congress' shared authority over the military "is not restricted to the winning of victories in the field and the repulse of enemy forces. It embraces every phase of the national defense, including the protection of war materials and the members of the armed forces from injury and from the dangers which attend the rise, prosecution and progress of war."




Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Paying for Bush's Fear in Iraq
- Bush has no credibility at all in complaining about "strings" that Congress wants to attach to his escalating drive forward in Iraq. He's pushed past the will of the American people since day-one, and he's just as determined to roll over those same heightened concerns as he grabs for more money and tries to duck the check of our legislature on his wanton militarism.




Friday, March 2, 2007
New Nuclear Warheads for Bush
-- If the Bush regime doesn't get their way - to fiddle with and refurbish the existing nukes - they will argue that deterrence is at risk; a preposterous notion, as our existing arsenal is more than enough to blow us all to Pluto.

Friday, February 23, 2007
Selling Son of Star Wars Missile Defense To Europe Threatens New Cold War
- Does this administration want a new cold war? They're angling for one. These brainless, unschooled megalomaniacs see a short term plus in their agenda to isolate Iran and those who would dare to trade with them.

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Cheney Validates Al-Qaeda
Cheney and his administration have spent the time they were expected to craft a way home for our soldiers, creating even more 'enemies' and stoking even more extremism and resistance in Iraq.




Sunday, February 18, 2007
Republicans Vote To Continue Their Slow Bleed Of Our Troops In Iraq
There can be no other more pernicious "slow bleed" than the unnecessary deaths of the 3,133 U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq defending the republicans' and the Bush administration's lies and excuses for keeping our nation's defenders hunkered down in the middle of Iraq's civil war.


Monday, February 12, 2007
Over 2,953 US deaths in Iraq besides the 170 Bush blames on Iran
- The one hundred-seventy U.S. soldiers whose deaths the military attributed to Iran have been killed in Iraq as a direct result of Bush's decision to place and keep them bogged down in the middle of Iraq's civil war, no matter who he claims is ultimately responsible for their demise.

Saturday, February 10, 2007
Iran's Defense Against an Imminent U.S. Attack
- Bush has been engaged in an active campaign of interference in Iran's political process to bring about regime change in Iran -- not through any valid exercise of democracy or democratic principles and practices -- but through the fomenting of unrest within the sovereign nation, and through the intimidating influence of another reckless exercise of our military forces.

Friday, February 9, 2007
Is Gates Stirring Up Trouble With Iran To Boost Oil Prices?
- Coming at the same time as Gate's rhetorical lashing of Iran, the WaPo reported today that oil prices rose above $60 a barrel Friday following a $2 jump the day before.

Monday, February 5, 2007
Bush's Bloodthirsty Republicans Scrambling to Block Bipartisan Iraq Resolution
Bush and McCain Mistake Cheerleading the Sacrifices They're Demanding of Our Soldiers for Support

Sunday, February 4, 2007
Bush Elevates Iraq and Afghanistan Over the Rest of the Nation's Priorities
This week Bush will ask Congress to consider his budget limiting the spending of our tax dollars on almost everything else, except to support his militarism abroad.

Friday, February 2, 2007
Where is the EVIDENCE that Iran threatens the U.S. in Iraq or anywhere else?
It's the Bush regime's interest in suppressing Iran's oil influence which is the ONLY reason that Bush is using the weight of our nation's defenses to pressure and provoke the Iranian government and destabilize yet another oil power in the region.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Bush's Muckraking Militarism Toward Iraq And Iran Is The Greatest Threat To Our Security
Bush wants us to believe that Iran, who has never directly threatened our nation or our forces in Iraq, is more determined than he is to escalate the violence in Iraq.

Sunday, January 28, 2007
Marching and Protesting to End an Occupation (Again)
The more Americans invest themselves in protest of this duplicitous, destructive Bush regime, the more they'll expect and demand a change in its course and direction.

Friday, January 26, 2007
Bush Looking To Provoke Iran To Validate His Iraq Occupation
- Bush is now intent on re-invading the Iraqi neighborhoods with our nation's defenders in a cynical attempt to provoke a response from Iran, and to draw Iran into his rhetorical web of blame for the violent consequences of his own military aggression in Iraq and in the region.

Thursday, January 25, 2007
To Bind, or Not to Bind Bush on Iraq
The Biden resolution is not meant to be the end of the process of Congress reasserting their constitutional role in the deployment of our forces and in the ending of Bush's fiasco; it's very much the beginning.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Giving Bush A Chance In Iraq
This lame-duck pretender is intent on moving forward with his Iraq occupation as if his decision to wage his manufactured 'war on terror' in Iraq hadn't been completely repudiated by the American voters who removed his legislative majority in the last election.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
State of Bush's Iraq Deception
Even as Bush speaks tonight of liberating and freeing Iraqis from the grip of a brutal U.S. supported dictator, he will be re-asserting himself as yet another self-serving orchestrator and administrator of bloody violence against Iraqis to satisfy his self-appointed posturing as the post-911 protector of the world.

Monday, January 22, 2007
Bush To Bull Past Skepticism And Opposition On Iraq
Bush isn't listening to any of us on Iraq, but he wants us to hear him tomorrow night . . .

Saturday, January 20, 2007
Bush Playing Politics With The Lives Of Our Soldiers In Iraq
"The president knows that because the troops are in harm's way that we won't cut off the resources," Speaker Pelosi said. "That's why he's moving so quickly to put them in harm's way."

Friday, January 19, 2007
Here's To The Republican Defectors on Iraq!
This is truly an opportunity for Republicans - which will not come again for them - to do the right thing by Iraq and by our nation's faithful defenders, and pull the rug out from under their presidential pretender's ability to perpetuate his Iraq folly.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Standing 'Em Up In Iraq Just To Knock 'Em Down
- Bush expects the Shia-dominated police and military forces to turn against their own and destroy their heart and soul to accomplish the only possible solution to his necrotic Iraq strategy. Not surprisingly, they're balking at Bush's self-serving suggestion that they pluck their own eyes out to avoid offending his crusade.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Bush Is 'Emboldening Enemies' And 'Empowering Iran' In Iraq
- If we take Bush at his word . . . that, he's really concerned with Iran's influence in Iraq, in Shiite neighborhoods, then he's really blown it. There is nothing more responsible for, and enabling of, Iranian influence in Iraq than his destabilizing invasion and occupation.

Monday, January 15, 2007
Bush Regime Running Scared From Retaliation In Iraq
- Back and forth, the ascended leaders in Iraq and the U.S. hurl their followers into the bloody abyss -- out of greed, revenge, and hunger for power -- and, in Bush's case, partly out of fear of retaliation for his own immoral barbarism.

Friday, January 12, 2007
Bush Is Escalating His Iraq Occupation To Move "Forward" Against Iran
- Under the pretext of concern for the victims of these government-affiliated death squad's vigilante justice, Bush wants to move into these Shia neighborhoods with our military forces and wage another false offensive against Iraqis to further his ambitions against Iran.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Primetime Escalation Is Bush's Last Stand In Iraq
In a blurb of idiocy and bluster tonight, Bush will lay out his ambitions for the future of his Iraq folly - bare for the world to gauge and judge by his own deluded lecturing, and by his own feeble logic.

Tuesday, January 9, 2007
On The Eve Of Bush's Iraq Escalation
Our American soldiers are set to be tasked, once again, with delivering their brand of 'shock and awe' to Baghdad and other towns in Iraq to cow the population into accepting the unpopular, and increasingly autocratic rule of the Maliki cabal. It's really that simple.

Monday, January 8, 2007
Bush's Latest Plan To Perpetuate His Bloody Iraq Failure
- The details of the plan Bush will reportedly unveil Wednesday signal his intention to dig our soldiers even deeper into the Iraq quagmire.

Sunday, January 7, 2007
Bush's 'Tried and Failed' Plan For Iraq
There is nothing Bush can tell us, when he finally gets enough gall to unveil his planned "way forward" in Iraq, which would convince anyone already opposed to the occupation to agree that he should continue.

Saturday, January 6, 2007
Sacrificing Our Soldiers To Surge Forward In Iraq
- It's more than ludicrous to expect that the planned token influx of reinforcements will be able to do anything more than help protect the disregarded lives of the hunkered-down, over-deployed, and beleaguered brigades already deployed there.

Thursday, January 4, 2007
Escalate the Occupation, Own the Occupation
Were it not for the utter incredibleness of any suggestion that Bush and his cohorts deliberately allowed the present conflict in Iraq to prevail, and escalated it just to feather the elevated power and influence that they assumed after the 9-11 attacks, it would be a forgone conclusion in the face of their indefatigable zeal for continuing their faltering aggression abroad.

Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Political Capital to End the Iraq Occupation
- Bush used the "political capital" he assumed out of the election to elevate himself over the rest of Americans - to stand atop the rubble of humanity in Iraq - and posture as the defender of America and the world against the specters of opposition to his own militarism.

Sunday, December 31, 2006
Three Thousand Wake-Up Calls In Iraq
- Bush is dreaming now; sleepwalking through history, like he slept through the execution of Saddam. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

Saturday, December 30, 2006
Death To Every Leader Who Kills Innocents With An Army?
What happens when Iraqis inevitably replace the current bunch who've assumed power? Will they be justified in prosecuting Maliki and Talibani for their own death squad militias?

Friday, December 29, 2006
Battling Bush's Enemies In Iraq
Iraq has become a haven for violence, but, it's in the form of resistance to the U.S. occupation, by Bush's design.

Thursday, December 28, 2006
Further Down That Bloody Path In Iraq
America the beautiful, here we go . . . farther down the bloody path as Bush prepares to commit more of our soldiers to hew even deeper into Iraq, and to sidle up to the rest of the deadly pretenders

Saturday, December 23, 2006
Bucking Up Our Soldiers for the Ideological Occupation
As Bush thanks the troops this weekend, at Walter Reed and in his radio address, for enduring his crusades, his inner ego is busy crafting a cover story to allow him to slip more troops into Iraq. He'll tell us all, in a little while, how he and his handpicked generals know better than the American people about what our nation's priorities should be in Iraq and in the Mideast.



Wednesday, December 20, 2006
More Soldiers For Bush's 'Ideological War'
Bush has committed our nation to his "long war" which he wants future presidents to adopt; his illegitimate war child from his bloody binge abroad. Now, he wants us to sponsor even more by increasing the size of the military.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
New Pimp for the Bush Occupations
Out with the old Defense chief, in with the new, and, everything is as it was.

Friday, December 15, 2006
Democrats Determined to Take the Lead Managing Mideast Unrest
- It makes perfect sense that members of the new Democratic majority are striking out on their own in an effort to influence our nation's foreign policy



Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Sadr and his countryfolk have to live in Iraq, not Bush . . .
The arrogance of Bush using his influence to meddle in Iraq's politics while he continues his military occupation is stunning.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Bush Convinced He Knows Better Than Americans On Iraq
Bush wants us to know that he's listening to his defective "government", rather than listening to the Americans who've allowed him to serve.

Sunday, December 10, 2006
Iraqi Fledglings Still Refusing To Fly Solo
The Iraqi regime is still, in fact, an adolescent with an insatiable appetite for American lives to feed its manufactured existence.

Saturday, December 9, 2006
Bush Still Looking For A 'Way Forward' In The Face Of His Iraq Failure
- Bush may have received the ISG report with the politeness of a condemned man before his executioners, but he really has no intention at all in voluntarily changing course in Iraq.

Thursday, December 7, 2006
America is the Author of the Civil War in Iraq
The Iraq Study Group and others advocating for more time to arm and train more Iraqis will only succeed in giving Bush more rope to continue his occupation unabated.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Mr. Gates' War
- Robert Gates has come to inherit, not only Rumsfeld's position as the point man for the military contribution to Bush's "war on terror," he's also come to inherit Rumsfeld's occupation of Iraq.

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Best Way Forward In Iraq
- I can't imagine why these administration-encouraged commissions have taken all these months just to come up with a different way for America to continue to travel the path Bush has taken us down in Iraq. We're on the wrong road.

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Hunkering Down In Iraq
-- After months of escalating the occupation of Baghdad and defending the center of Bush's junta as his last stand in Iraq, Bush is set to send even more soldiers there to reinforce the green-zone of defense around the crumbled Maliki regime.

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Bush Needs To Come On Home
-- If Iraqis are going to fight, they can do that very well without our troops in the middle. That's the message he should have delivered to Maliki. That's what Americans told him they wanted him to do. He's not listening to us. He needs to come on home.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Battling Ideologies In Iraq
- Bush rolled the same loaded dice Tuesday that he used to divert our soldiers from the pursuit in Afghanistan of the suspected orchestrators of the 9-11 attacks to fight and die in Iraq as part of the"ideological struggle" he imagines between his regime and "enemies" and "terrorists" everywhere.

Sunday, November 26, 2006
Outsiders In Iraq
-Bush is the ultimate outsider in Iraq, represented there amidst the violence and unrest by the resources and humanity of our nation's defenses while he skirts around the country and the world; safe from suffering the reprisals and recriminations waged against our troops by the very folks he claims to be liberating.

Saturday, November 25, 2006
With Us Or Against Us In Iraq
Maliki has almost nothing to gain by continuing to allow Bush to wage his 'terror war' in Iraq. He'll have to decide whether he's truly a leader of his country and countryfolk, or, if he's a mere tool of Bush's imperialism.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Bush's Duck And Cover Tour
- Instead of facing our new Democratic majority like an adult, Bush is ducking around the world looking for a friend.

Monday, November 20, 2006
Mindless Escalation In Iraq
It looks like the Bush administration is planning on gearing up to escalate our nation's involvement in Iraq

Sunday, November 19, 2006
Earworms, Decent Intervals, and Quagmires
- Bush's earworm, Kissinger, slithered out and effectively unraveled the presidential lame-duck loser's plans for a military victory in Iraq by declaring that we've lost.

Friday, November 17, 2006
Putting a Signing Statement on the Election Results
Bush wants to attach one of his lame-duck signing statements to the results of the election by insisting it was a mandate for him to draw up a plan to stay the course in Iraq.

Friday, November 10, 2006
Governing Without Parental Supervision
Daddy Bush and his concierge, James Baker, have taken Junior back under their wing and have apparently convinced the adult adolescent to stop playing with the nations resources and defenses, and to put the government back together again.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
New Brooms
- Voters intend for those legislators they just sent to Congress to act against Bush's abuses where the republican surrogates refused; and to act in an intensity which matches their own frustration and anger. If they wanted lip service and hand-holding they would have kept to the status quo.

Monday, November 6, 2006
The Power of Our Participation
- Our vote is the instrument of our collective conscience and our warrant to the realization of our freedom, our liberty, and our well-being. It is a beginning point for activism and action, not an end.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Our Soldiers Are Dying To Win
Are these soldiers being made to sacrifice their lives and livelihoods in defense of territory? Are they being directed to fight and die in defense of the lives lost in the battle? Or, is there a larger, more enduring goal that can be achieved by just fighting on?

Sunday, October 29, 2006
Resisting Republican Occupations
In America, under republican occupation of all branches of our government, Bush and his increasingly autocratic regime have worked to substitute all levers of control in our system of checks and balances with their own assumed powers.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Bush's Iraq Explanations
After over three years, and over 2700 American soldiers' lives later, Bush shows no indication at all that he's finished sacrificing our nation's lives and resources for the Iraq muddle. He's 'adjusting tactics' like a toddler at the wheel of his toy car console.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Bush and Bin-Laden, Sittin' in a Tree . . .
Nothing must thrill al-Qaeda more than to hear Bush read off passages of propaganda from the terrorists' own speeches and dispatches, except maybe the slick campaign commercial the republican party put out this weekend featuring the terrorist's words lovingly super-imposed against bin-Laden's smiling image.

Monday, October 23, 2006
Arrogance and Stupidity in Iraq
- It's as if Bush and the republicans want to be treated like children on the eve of their birthday and have us overlook the spoiled rampage their party has been on, punch-drunk with absolute power assumed from majority control of all branches of our government. They're sorry they broke Iraq, and they promise to clean it up right after the election.

Sunday, October 22, 2006
In Our Own Hands
Through our virtue and our vigilance we must, in our respect for democracy, value and protect the right to vote. Our vote is the instrument of our collective conscience and our warrant to the realization of our freedom, our liberty, and our well-being.

Friday, October 20, 2006
Bloody Stain of Vietnam in Iraq
- Like Nixon, Bush is saddled forever with the deaths of those who were caught in the way of the horror of his self-validating war, leaving the rest of us to travel the road to hell as he deflects and lies to preserve his power in a political campaign.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Rejecting Republican Failures
- Bush and his republican party have failed, and should not be given more room to further weaken our nation's power and prestige with their bungling militarism.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Knowing That Our Soldiers Are Dying Makes Us Responsible
- Support for continuing the occupation of Iraq is an acceptance of these soldier's deaths.

Sunday, October 15, 2006
Do We Bomb Iran Now To Teach North Korea A Lesson?
- If Jong-il keeps it up, any day now we could be hearing tantalizing excerpts from his revolutionary speeches dutifully repeated by Bush alongside of the fear snippets from al-Qaeda he's fond of throwing into the middle of his fundraising appeals.

Friday, October 13, 2006
Bush Worried We'll Become 'Complacent' With Cheaper Gas
- Bush realizes he won't be able to push his energy industry welfare package without a crisis - without a full measure of the pain and sacrifice he's so accustomed to extracting from the American people

Thursday, October 12, 2006
All You Got To Do Is Listen To What Osama Bin Laden Says
- Bush is mezmerized with the words of terrorists. He's listening to bin-Laden instead of the American people.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Bush 'On The Move' in Iraq
-- Bush says "we're on the move" in Iraq. More likely, though, we're not going anywhere. Bush seems more intent than ever on leaving our soldiers to continue the losing defense of the crumbled Maliki regime.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006
North Korea Drives Bush Into Outer Space
In an amazing coincidence to the N. Korean nuke test, the Bush administration has sneaked and released a major new space policy which just happens to mesh with the missile threat the rouge nation is so intent on proving it possesses.

Sunday, October 8, 2006
Bush's Retreat to Iraq
Bush is determined to substitute concern for the certain threat to our nation which came from the al-Qaeda terrorists he's turned his back on, for the risk to our soldiers from the unrest and chaos his occupation has caused in Iraq.

Saturday, October 7, 2006
The Christening of Battleship Bush
Northrup-Grumman has named their 11-hundred-foot, last in-the-series, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier after the former President George H.W. Bush, and, today, let their two most important benefactors oversee the launch of the latest floating platform of U.S. projected aggression and contrived world dominance.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Bush's Soft Bigotry on Terror
-- Bush is out there on his own, fighting his imaginary 'war on terror' against the will of the American people; against the very citizens in Iraq that he claims to have liberated.

Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Don't Take Bush's Word, He's Listening To Osama
-- Bush and his republican party of fear have lost all credibility in explaining what our troops are still doing in Iraq.

Monday, October 2, 2006
Woodward Comes Out From Inside the White House on Iraq
- It's satisfying to see the propagandists that surround Bush, ambushed and exposed by yet another insider.

Sunday, October 1, 2006
Perceptions of Republican Fearmongers and the Simple Truth
- Five years after the attacks of 9-11, Bush and his republican co-horts have failed to learn the fallacy of the use of force in suppressing those 'ideologies' they fear.

Saturday, September 30, 2006
Rejecting the Republican Party of Fear
There is a weakness and fear that the republicans possess which they want to spread to the rest of the nation as they hope to have us cowering behind their skirted flag. They fear the American voter most of all . . .

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Letting Lies and Propaganda Dictate
How many distractions will the Bush regime be allowed to use to obscure from the fact that they haven't caught the perpetrators identified in the congressional authorization to use military force that Bush uses to justify his imperious power-grab?

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Bush and Cheney Through Their Looking-Glass
... Alice and the White Rabbit are careening around in their own alternate universe as the mess they've caused remains festering on the other side of the fantasy they've surrounded themselves with.

Saturday, September 23, 2006
Bush's Moderation Ultimatum
- It is impossible for anyone to view Bush as a 'moderate' who has found themselves in the way, or might find themselves in the way of Bush's unilateral, preemptive reprisals and their bloody, collateral effect on defenseless innocents.

Thursday, September 21, 2006
As If Bush Owned The World
It's frustrating to watch these world leaders posturing against our country, who Bush has so thoroughly demonized - who have their own problems with their own seemingly autocratic regimes - and suffer the realization that our own despotic leader has yet to be deposed for his crimes against Americans and others.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Bush and Credibility at the U.N.
The nations of the world are more concerned with issues of survival and prosperity as Bush beckons them to abandon these and join him in pursuit of whatever threat he decides in his ideological "war on terror."

Monday, September 18, 2006
Bush's Political Prisoners
It's an inexcusable political ploy for Bush to hold these Afghans and Arabs in his prisons, indefinitely, without charges; as substitutes for his inability to capture the man our government says is responsible for the 9-11 attacks, bin-Laden, and his accomplices.

Saturday, September 16, 2006
Digging More Holes For Ourselves In Iraq
On the word of the fugitives who've been on the run for five years since the 9-11 attacks, Bush will commit the bulk of our nation's resources that are intended for our defense, and the main pride of our nation's military, and pour these into Baghdad; pour them into the trenches they're digging around the Iraqi capital.

Thursday, September 14, 2006
Bush, Evil, and a Third Awakening
-- WaPost reported on an interview Bush gave Tuesday, where he told a group of conservative journalists that he sees a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States, and relates all that to his 'war on terror', which he views as "a confrontation between good and evil."

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
What War?
-- Bush spit into the wind when he declared that, "winning this war will require the determined efforts of a unified country," and "we must put aside our differences." He and his surrogates spent the weeks and days leading up to the 9-11 anniversary attempting to divide Americans.

Monday, September 11, 2006
Stirring Up The Dust At Ground Zero
-- There is no pile of rubble and humanity left in New York, or anywhere else, that Bush can stand on and bullhorn his way back into the nation's confidence.

Friday, September 8, 2006
Bush and Learning Lessons
From the debacle at Tora Bora, where Osama bin-Laden was allowed to escape into the mountains, to the diversion of forces and resources to Iraq, to the Bush administration's mindless evisceration of our civil liberties at home, there has been a continuing, five-year failure to achieve any of the goals and effect any of the protections that Bush has repeatedly promised Americans.

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Because Bin-Laden Says So
-- I can't be the only one who's dumbfounded by Bush's obsession with the statements of bin-Laden and other terrorists. Bush seems enthralled with their words, and determined to respond to their every nuance.

Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Bush: Escalating threats in Iraq and elsewhere, but we're 'safer'
There is a dangerous denial that is being practiced in the administration campaign to portray their invasion and continued occupation of Iraq as a military and ideological success, and conversely, to portray Iraq as a cauldron of terror that would escalate into more of a threat to the U.S. if we withdraw our troops.

Sunday, September 3, 2006
Sistani Led His Followers to Elect Iraq's New Regime. Today He Walked Away
The Independent is reporting that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has "abandoned attempts to restrain his followers" and no longer believes he can stand in the way of the growing civil war.

Friday, September 1, 2006
Bush's War On Ideology
Bush satisfies himself that his actions are inviolable and within some nebulous notion of legality and constitutional privilege. But, little consideration is given to the rights and privileges of those who find themselves in the way of his ideological assaults.

Thursday, August 31, 2006
Who Most Threatens America?
If the Bush regime is at war with those they hold responsible for the collapse of the World Trade Towers, then it is truly a stealth war. Bush never mentions bin-Laden's name anymore, even though he began his 'hunt' in 2001 demanding his apprehension, "dead or alive.'

Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Suckers for the 'Son of Star Wars'
The Bush regime desperately wants to re-start Star Wars, or 'Son of Star Wars.' They had hoped their plan to proliferate their 'missile defense' technology to European provinces to counter Iran would get a boost from all of their flailing around over the North Korean missile launches.

Thursday, August 24, 2006
Baghdad is Bush's Last Stand in Iraq
It's unfortunate for our nation, our soldiers, and for the Iraqis, that Bush and Khalilzad aren't on the field like Custer was in his time. Both share his arrogant belief in their own righteousness as they attack and kill the 'insurgent' Iraqis like Custer slaughtered his 'savages'.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
"So long as I'm president"
Bush has amassed power by just imagining it, asserting himself, and waiting for the challenges he knows from experience will not come from the present pack of congressional cowards.

Sunday, August 20, 2006
If Iraq is key to Bush's 'terror war' . . . we're losing
If Democrats are going to continue to acknowledge Bush's 'terror war', they should oblige him and aggressively tie it to the quagmire in Iraq and his regime's wallowing failures elsewhere in the world.

Monday, August 7, 2006
Rice sees 'opportunity' for a 'New Middle East' in the Lebanon crisis
As the Bush regime calls for a "New Middle East", while, at the same time, encouraging and supporting Israel's invasion of Lebanon, they provoke the 'old' Mideast to new and more pernicious means of defense against U.S. imperialism.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Fighting Them There, As We Create Them Everywhere Else
. . . if it is our presence in Iraq that is a magnet for combatants, then it's immoral to expect Iraqis to continue to bear the brunt of those violent expressions of resentment that are directed at the U.S.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Reflections in Lebanon of a Failed Bush Doctrine
Israel's determination to attack civilians in Lebanon, deliberately or not, who have absolutely no influence with the political or militant organization of Hizbollah (or any other group which supposedly threatens) and destroying their lives and livelihoods as a 'deterrence' is reprehensible.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Israel's 'Collateral' War
Is this really 'war' on Hizbollah? They don't seem to be affected by the Israeli killings in Lebanon.

Friday, July 14, 2006
Israel's Presumptive Reprisals
'Line in the sand', sending a message, shock and awe . . . nothing has been learned from the folly in Iraq, nothing has been learned from the years the Israelis let agitators draw them into counterproductive reprisals.

Sunday, July 9, 2006
Phony Threat, Phony Defense
It's not so far-fetched to conclude that neither North Korea, nor the Bush regime, is interested in resolving the nuclear standoff and confrontation; not with diplomacy or retaliation.

Tuesday, July 4, 2006
This Fourth of July is Theirs, Not Mine
How can we continue to boast of the genius of our own past liberty from the imperialism of the British monarchy while our nation's military is actively oppressing the citizens of Iraq?

Saturday, July 1, 2006
Bush Still Wants A Mock Court to Cover For His Mock Terror War
The Bush regime is afraid the Court's ruling means Gitmo prisoners will get their shot at what we take for granted here in America: a free and fair trial, due process, access to evidence against them with the right to challenge with witnesses, protection against use of coerced confessions, access to counsel . . .

Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Note to Democratic Centrists: Don't Forget The Roots Of Our Party's Activism
As we put forward our positions and arguments we should acknowledge the liberal origins of issues, where inclusiveness is a prerequisite to success, and partitioning of concerns is nothing but marginalization and abandonment.

Monday, June 26, 2006
War Party in the Catbird Seat
With the majority of Americans supporting a timetable for withdrawal, the republican party placed themselves and their votes at odds in the past weeks with a public increasingly anxious about the mounting costs of the continued occupation, both in lives and resources.

Sunday, June 25, 2006
The Bush Regime Is Making It Up Here, So They Can Fight Them Over There
The arrests of the young men in Miami on terror related charges is the Bush regime's most clumsy attempt yet to gin up the fear that has allowed them to pose as the protectors of the nation and the world since the collapse of the World Trade Towers.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Cranking Up The Occupation
The escalation of operations in Baghdad and Ramadi can only be seen as a tighter occupation to the residents who have no association with the elements Bush and Maliki claim to be concerned with.

Thursday, June 15, 2006
The Republican War Party
The republican Iraq War Party is stepping out of their citizen's clothing and into their militarist garb; the war hawks, the war hounds, the warmongers, the tyrants.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Escalation Masquerade
There's nothing left for the tyrants as they gather in the comfort of the presidential retreat this week to line our soldiers up like matchsticks for a future flame . . .

Friday, June 9, 2006
Hopeless Captives of the New Iraqi Imperium
With more 'anti-insurgency' raids forecast by Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki for the near future, backed-up by an escalation of the U.S. forces by as many as 5500 more soldiers transferred in from Kuwait and Germany, there will be an almost certain increase in the numbers of those captured and held.

Thursday, June 1, 2006
Dealing with the U.S. Devil
Lincoln once remarked, "A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear and cries, 'Stand and deliver, or I will be forced to kill you and you will be a murderer'."

Friday, May 26, 2006
Cooking Up A New Cold War
The Bush regime would be more than satisfied to isolate Russia, and China, as well, with a manufactured pall of suspicion and fear, making oil-producing nations reluctant to do business with them out of fear of U.S. retaliation.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Trampling American Empire
Whether coerced, compromised, or defeated, the other nations of the world are being made to endure the Bush regime's arrogant bid for American hegemony and dominance as he forces them to respond to his military threats, and to his use of our country's devastating forces in arbitrary, preemptive attacks across sovereign borders.

Monday, May 22, 2006
Bush's Wicked Iraq Lies
Would the Bush regime really walk away from Iraq, satisfied that the Iraqi troops were carrying on the 'fight against terrorists', as the violence raged on? To walk away they will have to abandon their boasts about ending the violence and rolling back the terrorist's fringe.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Making the Iran Thing Legal-Like
A military assault on Iran at this point can't be called 'legal'. There is no law the Bush regime has at their disposal that they can use to find Iran guilty of, or as an accomplice to, anything illegal.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Bush is in trouble. Take cover.
Bush is in it deep. That means we will have to bear whatever dodge he uses in his attempt to escape accountability.

Friday, May 12, 2006
What Makes U.S. So Exceptional?
What is it these days, besides our ability to unleash waves of destruction, that commands the attention of other nations and allows the U.S. to dominate the international agenda?

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Bush Regime's Absense of Communication
Rice and the others in this administration, and in the Pentagon, should listen to the words of the Iranian president, and amplify them.

Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Relying on 'Reasonable' Beliefs of Bush and Hayden
Bush administration's advocates have coined their own standard for spying on Americans outside of the FISA courts of 'reasonableness', which is a decidedly lower threshold than the 'probable cause' the 4th amendment calls for.

Sunday, May 7, 2006
Bush and Repugs at Their Most Dangerous; Scorching the Earth Behind Them
This could be the most dangerous period of Bush's reign.

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
The Idiocy is Swelling
Bush's continuing aggression threatens to trigger yet another disaster for working Americans already struggling to absorb the industry-inflated energy costs.

Sunday, April 30, 2006
White House Planning American Buyout to Divest Itself of it's Obligations
With the enactment of the energy buyout, the government's new corporate identity, 'USA Inc.', will initiate total divestiture of its obligations to American citizens with an intense campaign of rebate programs and arbitrary eligibility limits.

Saturday, April 29, 2006
The US Doesn't Give A Damn About A UN Resolution
The Bush regime ignored the UN in their rush to invade and occupy Iraq. This same Bush regime now wants the UN's blessing on their new imperialism toward Iran.

Thursday, April 27, 2006
The Boy Liar
In the grand old party of liars there's a legacy of lies carried on the lips of a cabal of liars who have weaseled their way into the highest offices of our government

Saturday, April 22, 2006
A Militarist Manipulates the Oil Market
Consumers in the U.S. are understandably anxious and angry and are looking to find a piece of Big Oil to rip in to. But, it is becoming increasingly evident that Bush's militarism is the main factor fueling the oil price rise.

Friday, April 14, 2006
Sticking It To Us at the Gas Pump Because of the Iran 'Crisis'
How could the U.S. oligarchy not be enthralled with knowing that their profits can be enhanced by stirring up trouble with Iran?

Sunday, April 9, 2006
No New Nemesis? No New Nukes
I smell a rat. I think all of this sabre rattling against Iran is more about the future of our own nuclear program than it is about the future nuclear ambitions of the Iranians.

Thursday, April 6, 2006
Strange How This Generation Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Bush's nuclear hawks stepped out from behind their Trojan Horses today and revealed a frightening ambition to yoke the nation to a new legacy of imperialism. They want the ability to produce 125 new nuclear bombs a year by 2022. How did it come to this?

Wednesday, April 5, 2006
"Democracy takes time." So, what's their hurry?
The U.S. is in a hurry. The Bush regime is signaling their impatience with their illegitimate Iraqi children, their junta, for their reluctance to elevate a leader of their puppet authority to a position of dominance over all of the disparate factions in Iraq.

Sunday, April 2, 2006
Bush's Inconceivable Interest in Iran
The U.S. push to develop more nuclear weapons, and Bush's abrogation of the NPT treaty makes all of this action against Iran, demanded by the U.S., bizzare and self-serving.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
What the Insurgents Want
We no longer wish to hear the voice of these bombers' violence. But, listening . . .

Saturday, March 25, 2006
Re-Installing Democracy
The Bush administration is actively working to set their puppet back into a position of power in the new Iraqi authority, as a leader of a 'security' branch that they just created out of the blue sky.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Iraq Propaganda Program Cleared by Military Inquiry. But Is It Right?
The thrust of their efforts is to create a zone of 'good news' that will permeate the airwaves and print media, and obscure the bloody images and alarming reports

Saturday, March 18, 2006
Chimp and His Handlers Think They Can Intimidate China
All of their militarism assumes that everyone outside Bush's bubble believes his delusional rhetoric about spreading democracy and defeating terrorists.

Thursday, March 16, 2006
Bush's Strategy of Preemption
The arbitrary exercise of our military strength and destructive power will not serve as a deterrent to rouge, radical terrorist organizations who claim no permanent base of operations.

Monday, March 13, 2006
Defense of New Iraqi Military to Lead Off Bush's New Propaganda Tour
The pretense of democracy that Bush brought to Iraq is nothing but a lottery with a dwindling jackpot - a trillion to one shot at a democratic nation emerging from our foreign invasion and occupation . . .

Sunday, March 12, 2006
Bush's Fireside Con Exploited IED Casualties
Bush had to show America he could make peaceful his kidnapped Iraqi bride. He'd use his radio address to the nation, his fireside chat, to throw the U.S. citizens a bone . . .

Thursday, March 9, 2006
Rudiments of a Tyrant's Reign
Bush and his cabal didn't care about the lives of Iraqis when they started out the war killing them. They don't care now as Iraqis are killing each other, often with our assistance and support.






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