| I really feel I have slipped farther down the rabbit hole, deeper into Looking Glass Land and completely lost my way back to the wardrobe and out of Narnia, than ever before. The recent announcement that the Bush administration will send the Taliban a gift of $43 million – tax payer money, only proves that the Resident and our current government is so far removed from reality as to inhabit their own universe in a galaxy far, far away from the one the rest of the world is familiar with. In Robert Scheer’s recent article regarding this unbelievable move, he eloquently points out the following: “Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists and destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously…….. At no point in modern history have women and girls been more systematically abused than in Afghanistan, where in the name of madness masquerading as Islam, the government in Kabul obliterates their fundamental human rights. Women may not appear in public without being covered from head to toe with the oppressive shroud called the burkha, and they may not leave the house without being accompanied by a male family member. They've not been permitted to attend school or be treated by male doctors, yet women have been banned from practicing medicine or any profession for that matter. The lot of males is better if they blindly accept the laws of an extreme religious theocracy that prescribes strict rules governing all behavior, from a ban on shaving to what crops may be grown. It is this last power that has captured the enthusiasm of the Bush White House.” Are we to be far behind in this lifestyle? Why is Bush so in bed with the Reverend Moon? Why open an office of Faith Based Charities that so clearly goes against the Constitution’s specific mandating the separation of church and state? Not to mention we have yet to get the list of which “faiths” need apply. One question I have is how on Earth did these “policies” of Bush’s get so far in the first place? Doesn’t anyone like Congress or the Senate need to approve them? I certainly have had no voice in $43 millions dollars of tax money, which according to Bush is MY money, going to such a blatant violator of civil and human rights. If I did, I would have voiced an emphatic “no”. And even more recently the announcement “U.S. Mulls Plans to Buy Russian Missile System”. Whaaaaa? According to the Los Angeles Times, “The officials, who asked not to be named, said the offers would be extended to other U.S. "allies and friends" and could include the purchase of Russian-made S-300 surface-to-air missiles.” Are Bush-Cheney so completely self absorbed and naive to think every other country is as greey as they are, that they can bribe foreign nations into supporting the laughable Star Wars Plan? HEY TWIG! It was a MOVIE! Not that any ‘missile’ defense is viable against terrorist bombing or chemical warfare, but if we’re going to spend the money, shouldn’t we be giving our own economy the boost? Why do we seem to be underwriting every foreign economy instead of shoring up our own? How far could $43 million go towards long-term care for the elderly? Or how about helping the homeless off the streets? Most every government believes in and defends the ABM treaty as the foundation of modern arms control, but not the Bush administration. More nuclear EVERYTHING! Arms and energy! Pull out all the stops as long as every contributor has a BIG MONEY contract so as to fund Bush’s re-election campaign now. Why else is he systematically transferring vast amounts of wealth from the wealthiest state in the union? Energy crisis? Hell, we here in California have so much gasoline they are having trouble storing it all, but have prices gone down? Hell no. All municipal utilities have so much energy they are selling it to the rest of the state, and are not subject to rolling blackouts and rate hikes. No, this has been deliberate, and the entire world knows it. Soon our media whore machine will wake up to the fact they’ve lost their business to overseas journalism. Well. The time has come. Time for the Democrats to use the power they’ve been given by one of the bravest men in America, and hopefully Jeffords has set an example to other GOP members who have a conscience – if there are any. Time for the criminal investigations to begin. Time for the subpoenas, and outing of the biggest con job of modern times. Bush, Cheney, The Hive of Five, et al, have all grown up so privileged they’ve never had to take responsibility for anything – until now. Now is the time for all the markers to be called in. It’s pay up and pay back time. Now is the time for all the little GOP off-compass zealots to realize that Karma is truly a bitch. |
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| And I,like one lost in a thorny wood, That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns, Seeking a way and straying from the way; Not knowing how to find the open air, But toiling desperately to find it out~ Henry VI part 3 ~ Shakespeare |
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