As Bush looks toward his future filled with brush clearing and organising the secret files in his Presidential Library, he is thinking of his legacy. Since he is bought and paid for by the energy and defense industries, that legacy will be bloody and costly for Americans and profitable for his employers. What better way to leave office than with a "generational war" in the part of the world that has the most oil reserves. It's a win-win for big oil and big defense!
Reports are leaking out that the White House is moving toward Dick Cheney's position on Iran. No surprise there since he is the brains behind the president. According to the Manchester Guardian, neither Bush or Vice President Cheney trust any future president -- Republican or Democrat -- to deal with Iran "decisively." In other words these guys are so full of themselves they think they can predict the future with precision. They also think they are the only ones who can do it.
This is called pomposity, and it's the kind of egomaniac thinking that makes the rest of the world distrust America. So far the Bush/Cheney predictions have been notoriously inaccurate. They predicted a short war in Iraq. They predicted Saddam had WMDs. They predicted abstinence only education would lower the rate of unwed mothers and STDs.
If you are keeping track, that's a 100% failure rate. I could list many more but why belabor this? The fact remains that these guys are not very good at diplomacy, governance or predicting the future. How dare they make moves that will most likely end in the only prediction they have gotten right so far: a generational war! It's not a prediction if you take steps to assure its outcome, and that is what they are doing.
They must be stopped. I know this sounds like the same old rant that I have made so many times, but I can't help it. I feel a little responsibility to future generations and my own old age. I would love living in a world were America was not bogged down in an unwinable war. I would love to live in a world where diplomacy was always preferred over armed conflict.
Maybe it's a pipe dream, but I have to think there are at least a few Americans who feel the same way. The answer to this problem as I see it is to impeach both Bush and Cheney immediately and put them on trial for war crimes. This would give us a renewed respect in the international community and stop the madness that is pushing us closer and closer to a bigger war.
Write your Congressperson and Senator and demand action. Eventually they will get tired of the letters and do something!
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