That has to be the answer that explains the rate at which the White House is able to drag out these Red Herrings, one after another. Of course, old Karl has been so successful at this particular brand of dirty politics that it is unrealistic to expect anything really new from the Chief of Dirty Tricks. Given the powers that this administration has taken unto itself, I do not understand how the full power of the Government of the United States is somehow unable to determine the source of the leak to the New York Times about undercover examination of international financial transactions. Every day that passes without the revelation of the source of the leak reinforces the very low level of competence of this administration. Throwing out a whole school of Red Herrings to stink in the noonday sun is only an attempt to divert our attention from real issues and the real future of our country. I grant that it is more fun and possibly politically empowering in terms of feeding red meat to the GOP political base to just beat up on the Times, but the information had to come from somewhere in the Bush Administration. Every official in the administration has signed a loyalty and non-disclosure statement. If George W and the V-P didn’t leak it directly, my second level suspicion, and no other way can be found to find the source, then bring the succeeding circles of possible sources into a FBI conference room and inject these possible circles of leakers with sodium pentathol before questioning. I suppose that staffers should be given the opportunity to resign, but in that case they should be led away from the White House in handcuffs and charged with treason. This will not happen because I believe that my first level of suspicion is correct, that either George W. or the V-P ordered that this information, which had already been publicly announced twice by the administration, and was moving toward total uselessness, had a last final iota of value as a political dirty trick and Red Herring. On Sept. 24, 2001, President G.W. Bush stated that the U. S. was tracking financial transfers. On Nov.7, 2001 it was publicly repeated that the U. S. was tracking financial transfers. While both parties have “a thing” with the free press, the Republicans have never believed in the First Amendment, or the U. S. Constitution for that matter. I’ve been an observer of the political process since Eisenhower’s first election, and I’ve rarely seen any Republican say anything about the press except when foaming at the mouth about the free press, demonizing the free press, and creating an institutional uncivil war against the free press, usually expressed with language similar to that which we have seen just lately: charge the reporters and editors with treason, usually for criticizing a useless Republican official or “because we are at war with al-Qaeda.” Of course, there is one little problem: we are not at war with al-Qaeda. Countries (States) war with countries. Al-Qaeda is not a country. At best, our use of the military to chase yet another raggedy-ass, towel headed, guerilla warlord-style organization in several countries is some form of “police action”. This police action really has its greatest utility as a warning to any country that allows such a warlord group to gain enough military power within its borders. This includes the use of guerilla tactics to discomfort the U. S. It is a warning that the fat cats (the Taliban and the Iraqi Baath Party) that run such countries that let things get so far out of hand will end up dead or out in the cold. Meaning that they will either be dead meat, or without money and power. We can only hope that the fat cats in several other countries “get” the message. Of course, we have yet to deal with the little problem of the civil war that we have allowed to develop in Iraq. How could even the pea-brains in charge of the war in Iraq not also seal the borders of that country at the same time to keep out Islamic idiots wanting to attack the US military? And, of course, we have yet to deal with the little problem of the “insurgency” in Iraq. Let us get real. Call it what it is: We’ve established an artificial “frontier outpost - of democracy” in the “wilderness” of Islam. We have created a target of opportunity for the local untrained, or semi-trained “eager young braves” who are inclined to rush off to Iraq. These Islamic Idiots throw themselves into the fight against “the Americans” to “prove themselves, their ‘manhood’ and thereby also qualify for a dream of a passel of nubile virgins should they prove unlucky enough to be killed”. In this way we keep the nasty fighting safely “on the frontier” and not in the streets of “civilization”. It will be good for us to remember our history: The French & Indian War, Chief Joseph, The Little Big Horn, and Geronimo. In those times horses and sailing vessels were the speedy forms of travel. When the current unpleasantness is finally resolved in the Middle East, the then evolutionary trained guerillas (the ones that survive) will have motor vehicles and jets to bring the unpleasantness closer to our utilities, financial centers, transportation networks, and shopping malls. Perhaps it is time that we learn to use the power of the English language to better describe the efforts of our government to accomplish a goal. A loosely flapping lip, as we were told in WWII, sinks ships. We should not sink our own ship of state with such loose language. We have had a “War on Drugs” for over fifty years. We’ve lost that fight. We have had a “War on Poverty”. We’ve lost that one, for sure. In fact, we’ve had so many “wars” on things that I’ve lost count, except to note that we keep losing all of them. This is not the way to abuse the language, or establish belief in the ability of our government to walk and chew gum. We have super-saturated ourselves with the language of war. The words have lost their meanings. I am afraid that we will re-learn those meanings only with thousands of gallons of fresh blood spilled on our shores. War is not a joke. War is not something that a country should jump into willy-nilly. War is state directed, planned, and organized killing. It is usually accompanied with mass destruction of innocent lives and property. War is Hell, or as close to Hell as we are likely to see and know on this Earth. Today, July 4th, 2006, North Korea reminded us that some issues are not Red Herrings suitable for self-serving political machinations. Some issues are real and hard decisions will now have to be made. This time without a base of support from the electorate based on honesty, truth, and real concern for the people of the United States. That has been squandered. Repeated experience has taught us that the administration of George W. cannot be trusted. Concern for homegrown big corporate fat cats and their symbols does not generate the same kind of loyalty that exists for Old Glory.
(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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