Are we a nation of laws????

7. September 2008 by admin.

I hope I can make this short (If you’ve read any of my other posts, you’ll understand my uncertainty). Today I was driving around thinking about some of the books I’ve read regarding the bush administration, cheney, and the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. I think it is indisputable that most Americans felt the extreme sense of violation when the al qaeda criminals murdered around 3000 Americans on 9/11/2001. As the anniversary of that date approaches my thoughts are that I really hope that something isn’t planned for a “re-enactment - that’s my first wish for any republican that thinks I’m “un-American” - and my second thought is; why haven’t the criminals in our government had to stand for their violations of the most basic laws that have served this nation for over 200 years?

I’m presently reading “The Way of the World” by Ron Suskind - another fabulously informative book that gives ample evidence that, not only has bush/cheney et. al. been incredibly incompetent in their decision making - they have virtually taken the position that the laws don’t apply to them. Additionally, telling the truth seems to be something for whimps. They seem to believe that the American public needs to just keep shopping and everything will be all right. At some point they will figure out how to kill all the “bad guys” as they call them, and eventually we will have what bush/cheney/mccain have infused into the republican “talking points” as victory.

This victory is coming at a very high price. And the discussion here could go on for - well I’ve read about 20 books about the subject since the invasion of Iraq, and these books aren’t short on information about the incompetence, the lies, and the purposeful disregard for our legal system. But for starters, somehow the republicans are going to have to eventually be able to claim their “victory” was worth more than the 4100+ American troop’s lives, the 30,000 and rising wounded (and poorly cared for veterans), the estimated 1,000,000 Iraqi lives lost - not to mention the wounded and displaced, the distruction of the Iraq infrastructure and it’s internal institutions, and the impending failure or near failure of our economy. Additionally, any “victory” will find Iraq and Iran “united” in the sense that the Shia majority in each country will more than likely lead to a “union” that will put the worst fears of many middle eastern “experts” on red alert. Moqtada al Sadr is presently in Iran, and supposedly his return to Iraq in about 3 years will happen when he has become the “Grand Ayatollah” with, I’m sure, a similar vision of Iraq as that of Iran since 1979. And, of course, our leaders have done everything in their power to guarantee that al Sadr will be very strongly anti-American when he takes power in Iraq.

To me, an even bigger price for “victory” in Iraq, will be what the bush/cheney criminals have done to our “nation of laws and not men.” They have broken laws with impunity, they lie about what they’re doing incessantly, they refuse to even appear before congress for questioning - like we don’t have a right to know what is going on, and the biggest “price” for me is that without the so-called Christian “right” these guys couldn’t win an election for dog catcher. These people have attacked the constitution ruthlesslly. And for all my Christian friends who seem to think that the right to privacy and habeous corpus are insignificant “sacrifices” to gain this “victory” well, to me, the fact that we have cowered down to the point we are giving up our civil rights means “victory” isn’t possible - even if ultimately bush/cheney/mccain get their precious oil out of Iraq.

Additionally, bush/cheney (I’m trying to be judicious about including mccain, but make no mistake about it - he will be the perfect puppet for whoever is behind these goons) have committed treason - at least once - in the Valery Plame Wilson affair - congress seemingly willing to look the other way. They have committed fraud on a huge scale in the doctoring and forging of documents used to justify the above mentioned disaster in Iraq. They have totally politicized the justice department - and when I bring this up to any “conservative” (to me the so-called conservatives are anything but conservatives) friends, instead of thinking about the danger of having a justice department made up of political cronies, they start babbling about how Clinton replaced all 93 US attorneys when he took office in 1992. They can’t bring themselves to think that this is a horribly dangerous precedent - probably thinking that they would never be in a position to have to worry about this - but if republicans are putting people in jail for being democrats - I don’t think they want to think about the shoe being on a different foot. bush/cheney have “privatized” enormous parts of our most important government structure - the scariest being the private militias that, should they get out of control, will be a story that will be, for most people in this country, a nightmare.

The trail of lies to justify invading Iraq is obscene and long, the outing of a CIA agent, the profiting off of a war they created, the direct violations of the constitution, and the thumbing of their noses at congress. I’ve always been an “independent” and I’m definitely voting for Obama in November, providing bush can’t figure out how to cancel the election, but I can’t understand how Nancy Pelosi can say “impeachment is off the table.” This is like enabling a 6th grader to lie, cheat, and bully his/her way in school - it’s just going to get worse. Additionally, I will be extremely disappointed in Obama if he, like Clinton before him regarding ghw bush and Iran/Contra, looks the other way once in office - not wanting to “rock the boat.” The bottom line is that these criminals need to be sent a message and future administrations need to be sent a message - and the message is that WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS!!!!!!!

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