Last Nov. 7, the American electorate stated in the clearest terms that �enough
is enough, we want change and we want it now.�
Bush and Cheney not only have ignored that loud and powerful voice but
they now have even more ambitious plans for dominating the Middle East. The new
Democratic majority is still searching for its identity and is feverishly
trying to pass non-binding resolutions. It stands the chance of being
blindsided by a preemptive attack on Iran.
Iran is now directly in the crosshairs of this war machine, and this
Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, cannot seem to address this
potential disaster, even when the future of America and the entire world is at
stake. They did not have the foresight to prevent the first Iraq debacle and
they are now on course to make the same mistakes again relative to Iran. Let
there be no doubt that the American people now, after almost four years of
enduring a catastrophic foreign policy, want to bring an end to this
incompetence and madness.
The GOP in Congress has now begun the process of committing political
suicide in the 2008 elections. This gang of completely tone-deaf Republicans,
which the American electorate chastised in the November 2006 elections, has
learned not one single lesson from the beating that was administered to them.
Instead of listening, absorbing how the vast majority of Americans now feel
about the direction America has taken and their anger over the insane Iraq war,
they have decided to yet again to �stay the course � and go down with the
decider-in-chief. In doing so, these thickheaded disciples of war face
political suicide in 2008 when many GOP senators and representatives come up
for re-election. The American electorate will be waiting, ready to administer
another well-deserved beating. These GOP lemmings are ready to go over the Iraq
cliff following their delusional drum major.
Each day I read more and more articles in which knowledgeable Middle
East journalists and analysts are predicting that this administration is poised
to attack Iran in the very near future. This unimaginable, unthinkable event,
if it happens, will: 1. Ignite a massive Middle East conflagration and 2.
Congress will then have no choice whatsoever but to initiate impeachment
proceedings against George W. Bush, for certain, and quite possibly against the
de facto president of the United States, Dick Cheney.
Cheney, the puppeteer-in-chief, and Bush the puppet decider continue to
thumb their noses at the entire nation, which they no longer serve but are
hell-bent on dominating. They now have most clearly stated that they will not
only continue to stay the course but that they will escalate it as they see
fit, no matter what the Congress or the American people desire. Cheney has said
that they will not be stopped.
As they see Iraq completely coming apart, and our military slowly, but
surely, being decimated by the never-ending deployments and re-deployments,
Bush & Co. are showing signs of panic. Their dreams and plans of
controlling the rich resources of the Middle East are now in a state of
disarray and extreme danger of totally failing. The virus of the Vietnam
experience has now infected their Iraq adventure and so, in a repetition of
history, they will not only stay the course, but they will up the ante. These
reckless, oil-thirsty gamblers are totally jeopardizing the future of the
entire Middle East, the United States and, yes, the entire world.
As we know, when a powerful animal is mortally wounded and cornered, it
becomes extremely dangerous. And so this totally incompetent, but now decidedly
wounded, cabal of neocons sets it sights on Iran, the next Saddam-like
bogeyman, the next obvious target for the Bush doctrine of preemptive war. We
are now watching the Bush & Co. propaganda machine of misinformation
revving up, fabricating the same type of reasons for attacking Iran that they
used to justify the attack on Iraq. They are trying to plant the same insidious
seeds into the mind of America that they planted prior to the invasion and
occupation in Iraq. We are now continually hearing all about Iran�s plans to
develop WMD, i.e., nuclear weapons, their involvement in furnishing weapons to
the Iraq insurgency, and of their goal to destroy Israel. And so, �we must
prepare to strike Iran before they strike us. We have to fight them over there
so that we do not have to fight them here.� Can the 30 percent of Americans
that still support Bush & Cheney, those we refer to as �sheeple,� continue
to feed at the trough of slime, lies and smokescreens?
This is d�j� vu all over again as Bush & Co. are on course to repeat
history. They will repeat history as Captain G.W. Bush of the modern-day SS
Titanic steers this nation directly into the field of icebergs and brazenly
states, �Full speed ahead, damn the icebergs, damn the opinions of the American
electorate and the entire world,� as he stays the course, escalates it and
forces America and the world into a disaster of the worst magnitude.
It now appears with each passing day that an attack on Iran, while
unfathomable to the 70 percent or so of Americans who no longer support Bush in
any way, could take place in the next month or two. Already positioned in the
Persian Gulf is the U.S. aircraft carrier group, the Dwight D. Eisenhower,
while a second battle group, the John C. Stennis, has just arrived. Newsweek
reports that a third carrier group will soon leave for that region. Just
recently Bush nominated Admiral William J. Fallon for the position of commander
of U.S. Middle East forces. Fallon, an expert in Naval air and amphibious
operations, was initially a strange choice to lead a ground war, but now we
understand his entry upon the scene completely. All the pieces are rapidly
being put into place. Iran is clearly in the crosshairs.
If that catastrophic preemptive event happens, then I predict that the
American people will completely erupt, the slow-moving turtle-like Democratic
majority will finally say, �Enough is enough,� the lemming-like Republicans
will completely cave in, and, without a doubt, impeachment proceedings will be
initiated for Bush. As the Middle East then explodes into a hellfire, there
will be no more time to initiate futile debates, and political maneuvering will
end when America and Congress will act and act quickly. Impeachment proceedings
will be brought against Bush and, hopefully, a group of Republican senators
will head for the White House to give this completely failed leader an
ultimatum: resign or face sure impeachment, just as a group of senators did
with Nixon in the Watergate scandal.
Let�s hope that this nightmare scenario never takes place, for if it
does, we will witness a war like nothing we have ever seen or even imagined. We
do not need this, the world does not need this and so it must be stopped, but
how? I know not what it will take to motivate Congress to somehow rise up and
stop this next act of insanity before it begins. If the Democrats can somehow
convince enough Republicans to support legislation to ban any action against
Iran without congressional approval, it would be a major step to sidestep
disaster. However, Bush & Co. have shown in many other actions that they will
not be stopped by anyone, so this monumental disaster could be on the way.
Even if this nightmare scenario is followed by impeachment or
resignation, the damage will have been done and the Middle East will erupt in
flames. This will be a total no-win situation with no good way to stop a
massive regional war, as those whose lust for oil cannot be satiated will never
back off. And as the situation escalates, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey
and possibly others nations in that region will have no choice but to take
sides, be it siding with Sunnis or with Shiites. There will be no winner, only
losers, as the world will be at the brink of World War III.
Is this U.S. Congress a modern-day version of the
German Reichstag, the governing body that watched in silence and total
submission as a powerful war machine was assembled and then launched those
preemptive attacks that led to the horror of World War II?