Enough Already by Missy Comley Beattie

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(Counterpunch, April 7/8, 2007)

I have watched with impatience the unraveling of George Bush and Dick Cheney's popularity. With each revelation of irrefutable evidence that the president and vice are bereft of humanity and bursting with corruption, I have demanded accountability, impeachment, arrest, and, eventually, conviction. Their shocking offenses include altering studies on global warming, falsifying data to go to war, invading a sovereign nation, legalizing torture, neglecting and betraying our military, and abandoning Gulf Coast residents in the days before, during, and after Katrina. The U.S. attorney scandal is just one more.

Last Tuesday, Bush said this about the war: "My main job is to protect the people, and I firmly believe that if we were to leave before the job is done, the enemy would follow us here." So let's see if I understand. Bush's main job is protecting us and his other job is not leaving Iraq before the job is done and this other job has morphed so many times it's easy to be confused. What we do know is that his job-approval rating is at an all-time low and according to the National Intelligence Estimate, he has created more terrorism by invading and occupying Iraq. So the reality is that Bush's main job is to terrify the American people in order to get away with his other job of waging endless war. To this I say, "Enough."

George Bush has just stated that there is no civil war in Iraq, only evil. To this denial of reality and his malevolence, I say, "Enough."

If people around the globe were asked to name the country posing the greatest threat to peace, most would say the United States. Actually, many Americans would agree. As Bush sermonizes about spreading democracy in the Middle East, it is obvious that he has total disdain for its principles. Hasn't he dismembered democracy here at home with the dexterity of a meat cutter? Enough!

More at....
http://www.counterpunch.org/beattie04072007.html

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1. "free speech zones" and "focus groups" do not a democracy make

little lord chimpenfurher. :grr: