Enough!
Enough of the rhetoric, enough of the lies, enough of the spin, enough of the name calling and anti-war bashing. Enough! We have had enough. The proof that Iraq is falling deeper into hell at the hands of this administration is out there. It's staring us in the face. Why the shrub administration and their asskissing followers refuse to see this is a complete unknown.
Recall that Bush saw Baghdad not as the final destination of his global war on terror but as a point of departure. He imagined that liberating Iraq might trigger a flowering of Arab democracy. He was counting on Saddam Hussein's ouster to jump-start a regional transformation. He expected a forthright demonstration of U.S. military might to enhance America's standing across the Muslim world, with friend and foe alike thereafter deferring to Washington.
None of that has come to pass. Baghdad has become a cul-de-sac. Having plunged into a war he cannot win, Bush will not relent. Iraq consumes his presidency because the president wills that it should. He has become Captain Ahab: His identification with his war is absolute.
As a consequence, the "global" effort aimed at eliminating Islamic terror, launched back in September 2001, has narrowed in scope. Today the global war is global in name only. In reality, it has become a war for Mesopotamia.
For his part, the president increasingly preoccupies himself with tactics at the expense of statecraft. Much as Lyndon Johnson once reviewed lists of targets to be bombed in Hanoi, Bush now ponders how many brigades will be needed to impose order on a handful of neighborhoods around Baghdad.
Ritualistic allusions to freedom as the antidote to terrorism still occasionally crop up in presidential speeches, but rhetoric no longer translates into action. An administration that once touted its expansive and principled approach to preventing another 9/11 has abandoned principle. Now there is only Iraq and the effort to ensure that today's news out of Baghdad isn't any worse than yesterday's.
Our political attention, then, needs to turn to whether the president's would-be successors can do what Bush cannot: acknowledge our failure in Iraq and look beyond it.
He will of course, not take the advice of experts. He will not listen to the cries of the Iraqi people. He will, however, do as the Carlyle Group et al. tell him to. It's a shame, really that in seven years, he was allowed to destroy a nation, it's good standing and the will of it's people. He has devastated Iraq. He has blamed others for his "missteps" his "errors in judgment" or as I like to call them, his "complete arrogant incompetence."
We, and the world, can not afford another administration such as this one. We can not afford the religious right to pluck away at our given liberties and freedoms over a book they have never read. We can not afford more Katrina's and ignorance of global warming. We can not afford more out souring of jobs and higher health and education costs.
Enough! It's time for us to speak even louder. Time to march on the White House, call our congressmen and women and demand to be heard. Time to canvas and talk and support those with our bests interests at heart. The time for dictatorship and war mongering is over. The time for the people is now.
Monday, April 9, 2007
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It is time!!
(and a reminder to please hit the URL on the email you got ASAP to activate your membership!) :)
Definitely Wed.
Thanks!
Stay on it! It's up to the American people to prod our lackluster politicians into doing the right thing, whether they want to or not!
They weren't offering flowers and candy today.
There are those who are already predicting the decline of the American Empire. I am not one of them, although, I must admit, that this administration has made all the right moves to accomplish this fate. America is still an innovative and a dynamic place despite of the political warts that are undeniably visable to the world to see. Whether it will take years or decades for America to reach it's former satus as a positive force in the world affairs remains to be seen?
If people like you keep it up...we may be out of this mess in no time.
AMEN SISTER!!!
Great post! This isn't a global war on terror, it's a war on Shrub's ego!!! He has failed himself and the American People in everyway possible. I MAYBE and I say that loosely MAYBE could have a little respect for the Bastard if he would admit defeat and back out now but the fact that he refuses to shows me once again just how IGNORANT & ARROGANT THIS ASSHOLE IS! He once said if the Iraqi people asked us to leave we would, WELL they are not just asking they are SHOWING us now.
Ziem,
I need you.
(And everyone out there who thinks like you.)
I read a few of your essays, and I really like the way you think.
My name is Kelley Wenzlaff and I found you through mariamariachita and The Fat Lady Sings.
Like you, I have had enough of the Bush Regeme. I am so frustrated by it all that I have decided to take Ghandi's advice and "Be the change I wish for in the world."
Im a stay at home mom, former business owner, and wildlife rehab volunteer.
I want to get progressive pro choice, pro peace, pro woman, pro family, pro civil rights bloggers to take action.
If we want a democracy "Of the People, By the People, and For the People,"
****WE The People need to take our government back!****
There are lots of things we can all do, but I for one have decided to run for office.
I have no consituancy, no political background, and precious little money, but I am a smart business woman, with a good plan.
I believe deep in my heart, that if I put my focus on making the world a better place for future generations, without any goals of attaining personal power, the people will see what this campaign is all about and vote accordingly.
You see Z, this campaign is not about me winning a local office in the Ohio Legislature, its about inspiring all of us to get involved and run for office, in every state in the nation, or work for a campaign, or write essays like yours. It's about taking action, and making all our voices heard.
Enough with the professional politicans who put their careers above the needs of the people.
Lets put REAL people in office, who represent our communities.
Will you check it out, and spread the good word?
I sure would appreciate it if you did.
www.momforthehouse.com
"If our democracy is sacred, then why is politics such a dirty word?"
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