2809 Total Deaths, 96 So Far this Month on 10.26.06 and 811 Days To Wait

What depressing numbers out of Iraq. Twenty-eight hundred nine troop deaths. Ninety-six deaths so far in 26 days this month.

Eleven more days to wait see if the electorate has been bamboozled yet again.

Eight hundred eleven days until our pompous Imperial King George, the Constitution Crusher, hopefully leaves office.

Closer in time, I keep expecting and waiting for the October Surprise. Karl Rove’s version of, “I fooled you. I fooled you. I fooled you, again.” Well, if it is a normal, dirty, low-down, nasty Republican trick, that is one thing. I could live with that. Dirty tricks I understand, and it is after all “fair” play.

What I truly worry about is a manipulation of the vote results by way of software in the untraceable electronic voting machines. If there is even a whiff of such political shenanigans, we will be seeing the beginning of the end of this representational democracy. Once was plenty. Twice was stretching it a bit too much. On the third time, representational democracy will have been killed by a trampling, stampeding herd of money and power crazed elephants disguised as a political party while being intent on self-aggrandizement and massive, unprecedented theft from the public treasury.

I listen carefully every day to the talking heads on national television shows. The elephants are so intent in somehow proving that they are righteous, all-knowing, and have God on their side that they cannot hear the similarity of their arguments to that of a small child caught in a deliberate lie, or red-handed with his hand in the cookie jar. At least they ought to be honest enough to credit the correct impulse, “The Devil made me do it.”

What have the elephants done with their total control of government? Something of which we ought to be proud? Placed “their” stamp on the Supreme Court. Shouldn’t it have been “our” stamp? Our Court?

Yes, perhaps there has been too much of a reduction of Presidential executive powers over the last few decades, but if that is true, then I will first remind you that that circumstance came about in response to another very objectionable violation of the Constitution by another former elephantine President.

Secondly I’ll also remind you that the newest revision of Presidential powers should have been an easy task with the elephants in control of the executive branch and both Houses of Congress. The exchange of power did not have to be done on the sly, hidden, by bald assertion, and a broad, multi-faceted refusal to follow the laws of the nation. Simply re-write the laws.

Beyond packing the Court with intellectual numb nuts, stem cell idiocy, and a consistent refusal to enforce immigration laws to help his good buddies in giant corporate businesses, is the far more dangerous deliberate breaking of the war powers act by invading a foreign country without provocation or specific approval of Congress, and a deliberate violation of the crown jewel of our Constitution, habeas corpus.

No wonder many nations around the world are beginning to think of the United States as a rogue nation. No wonder so many nations prefer to limit their association with us or follow our lead.

Add in the ignoring the provisions of the Geneva Convention to destroy the slim protections that agreement affords our troops who will be captured in dire and vile circumstances and you get the very worst possible results. We have a soldier missing at the present time. I suspect that he will find that being water boarded is extremely unpleasant. Until recently in many cases other nations and their minions avoided violating the Geneva Conventions. Today, because of the unruly elephants in our midst, that is no longer true. The party that ran their campaign under a facade of superior morals, turns out to have the morals of a guttersnipe ferret, and acts in the most despicable a-moral ways imaginable.

Maybe we just need to re-spin events, again. We did not invade Iraq to take away Saddam’s atomic toys. We were not trying to bring democracy to a people repressed by a monster shielded by vast reserves of crude oil. No, not at all. Our real purpose was to take away the restraints and controls that Saddam had placed on the Iraqi people that kept them from their natural desire to wage unrestrained war upon each other’s religious groups. Now they are engaged in that happy very uncivil war, killing each off at a joyous rate of about a hundred a day. There are some signs that this highly desirable set of circumstances will soon give rise to still higher injury and tortured body counts.

No, of course, we do not want to cut-and-run. Maybe we could just turn-and-step out of the way. We could go out into the nearby desert for a friendly foreign camping and sight-seeing trip. That would let the eager combatants have at each other instead of launching attacks at our troops.

Our troops are now being ordered to stand in the middle to referee for both sides to shoot at. We need to quit making the combatants expend ammunition on our troops. We have lost 96 troops this month alone. We need to allow the Iraqis to use the explosives on each other. When the fighting dies down to a blood splattered whimper, we can return victoriously from the desert to “control” things, bury the dead, and triage the wounded.

When there is no one left to argue with us, we will have a much easier time of rebuilding what we have broken. The Iraqis will be so exhausted that we will be able to steal their crude oil almost undetected. We can protect the much smaller remaining population while charging off the enormous costs of infrastructure reconstruction to the oil revenues that we don’t siphon out for ourselves. That will repay us our costs attributable to the war, including all those wonderful no-inspection, no-revue, no-bid, no-accountability contracts to Halliburton.

As of today, 10.26.06, our troop losses are 2,809 dead. How many more do we have to lose before we can figure out a way to do something different?

(c) Copyright 2006: George Wallace recently published a book on religion which lashes out at nearly all of the comfortable ideas about God, the trappings of organized religion, and the priesthood. His pithy comments and suggestions for a return to a God-centered personal religion will interest everyone. This article may be freely reprinted so long as all copyright attributions, and the full content of this resource box are included. www.OhGodIsThatYou.com

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