A President Not Knowing Which Way to Go!

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Simond Griote

From all appearances and words leaking out of the White House, our great leader is about to further his doomed misadventure in Iraq by sending an additional 20,000 US troops there to stabilize (?) the situation before the US can withdraw with dignity, or so the rationalization will be. Does this mean that he recognizes that there is no dignity in what we have done and are doing in Iraq? I doubt that seriously; this president is void of such abilities.

Early on in the Bush tenure as president, he met with the Canadian Prime Minister; that Prime Minister's Aide made a comment about Bush that was printed. Her comment got her fired, yet that comment has proved more insightful than Americans have understood. Her comment was that Bush was a moron--exact words, "What a moron!" But Americans love their moron and they elected him to a second term. And our moron has conducted a needless war; flew onto an aircraft carrier and declared that war won before it had even really begun; brought chaos and civil war to a country without chaos and civil war--and in so doing destabilized the entire Middle East; told the American people the war would pay for itself; and that the Iraqis would welcome us with open arms. Now in a Vietnam-like quagmire, we are blaming the Iraqi chaos on the Iraqi government and its people (a typical American ploy--the other person is always at fault; we are not incompetent).

This two-trillion dollar war this nation has allowed our moron to take us into and make international war criminals out of his upper level administrators is war that is now mired in a quagmire, and if that were not enough, our moron, again to use the Canadian Prime Minister's former Aide's label (because regardless of how moronic our leaders are, we do not so disrespect them) is about to further his misadventure by sending an additional 20,000 US boys and girls to Iraq.

This president cannot believe that the USA, with its mighty military, which he has so much confidence in as long as he does not have to serve, cannot go into a small country like Iraq and simply work its will. This has been a malady of other presidents--Presidents Johnson and Nixon could not believe that either and it took many US lives to make believers of them. Bush's failure of belief may be the result of his over confidence is military might to solve all problems on the ground; it may be an arrogance of power that presidents frequently fall victim to; it certainly may be his failure to learn anything from history.

Bush is a perfect example of a failure of American leadership; the Republicans and this nation have elected the weakest intellectual leader that this nation can put forth. He is the equivalent of Clarence Thomas that his father disgraced Blacks with by appointing him to the US Supreme Court. And if Thomas is Black shame (and he is), Bush is White shame, assuming such a thing exist in the American consciousness.

The Iraqi Study Group, which Bush appointed with his neocon Republican Congress, has issued a report that greatly repudiated this tragic leader's reign of terror on the Iraqi people and deception of the American people. Yet in his attempt to now spin its message and the American people's vote in November into nothingness, he is acting as if this report is just another report that he will factor into his thinking about Iraq before he makes a decision about a new direction. But for the last five years there has been no thinking at all on Iraq; just imprudent actions. This president has assumed an invincibility of the American military, prompted and cheered on by his cabal of deceivers--Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowolts, Perl, and other war hunger neocons.

Now, with further non-thought, he is about to send an additional 20,000 troops into Iraq. This is an easy decision for him because none of his loved ones or his friends' loved ones will hazard their lives. This is one of the reasons Congressman Rangel wants a debate on the return of the draft. He wants to point out to the American people that were these weak and callus leaders to have personal interests and loved ones at risk in making unnecessary wars, they would think before committing US troops.

For Bush, this war in Iraq is like playing monopoly. Thus far he has won Saddam's pistons that he holds somewhere in his monopoly treasure trove.It's all in the game of his presidency. After all his first term $57 million and his second term $70 million bought this office; so he should have fun, shouldn't he?

Bush is a confused man and a confused man will do many crazed and misguided things. But this new Congress needs to be as extreme as this president is; if he will not hear what this own study group says and what the American people have said, Congress needs to cut off funding that is vital to this president until he understands that he is no longer the agreed to ruler of this nation.

Simond Griote
12/18/06

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