Killings Continues In Iraq and Bush is Beating the War Drums for Iran
Simond Griote

President Bush is undeterred by the body-count that keeps mounting in Iraq. He is not personally affected: all his relatives are safe and sound here at home. After all, it's somebody else's child doing the fighting, doing the fearing, and doing the dying.

Yet it is Bush who puts on the brave face and issues the harsh and militaristic words just as if he is fighting this war. He has taken to this war as a duck to water and is carrying on this mistake as if it is not a mistake. Just a day or so ago, the White House tried to argue that Iraq is not a mistake. Will they ever stop!? No; they have to be stopped.

Yet the president is now beating the drums of war against Iran. Bush and Rice are ratcheting up their war words against Iran as a supplier of the arms that are killing our troops in Iraq, and they have recruited Israel into this war of words, which is the second step before the attack--the troops are already in place in the Gulf and in Iraq to do the attacking.

Israel issued a statement of concern about Iran as a threat to the region even though Iran, unlike Israel, has attacked no one. Iran's mad leader is talking madness, but they have not attacked anyone or made any preparations to do so. Yet we have a leader in the US who is  threatening to attack anyone and amassing military equipment around the world to do so. None of these actions have been taken by Iran, yet they pose a grave threat to the region and Israel? That is the way Israel and the US want  us to see it. Is everybody a threat to the USA and Israel, two extreme nuclear powers?

Under Bush, he has taken an Israeli model of military response and over-caution and placed this nation under that model so that everyone is a threat, and since we have the most expensive and wide-flung military across the globe, we declare threats everywhere! The Chinese leader recently visited Africa and seems to be courting African nations. That is sure to be perceived by this administration as a threat to the US vital and strategic interests, whatever those could possibly be in Africa--a continent of countries America has never cared about. This country has never cared about Africa, other than for the Whites who were in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Rhodesia, as they were driven out from oppressing Africans.  But just wait, as China makes more headway in Africa, the US will determine that Africa is vital to its strategic interest.

Many people, this columnist is one, have tried to understand Bush's mind and what causes him to see dangers and threats that have to be defended against; I don't have a clue still. His mind is not one that the average reasonable person can figure out. It takes one highly trained in pathological mind science to do that.

But week after week, the death toll mounts in Iraq, and Bush still loves fighting his war. Maybe because he has nothing to lose and it is not his money he is spending, he views this war as some video game that big boys from big Texas play. Whatever the possibility is, he seems to love this war he is playing with other people's children and and a trillion dollars of other people's money.

Who cares about people dying anyway? People die everyday of something! His game is as good as the next game; after all, he is the commander and chief, so bring on Iran!

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