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"Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors."

-- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1999

At this point in time any polite criticism of US policy would only serve to insult anyone with an IQ above that of our fearless CEO. Whether we look at US domestic policy or US foreign policy it has become clear that the Bush Administration has failed in all areas of both. The world opinion of the US is grim. The US is seen as the world’s largest terrorist state because of its illegal unilateralist actions to establish a Pax Americana. The very fact alone that the United States under-went a political transformation during the 2000 non-violent coup and quickly set out to adopt it’s policies dreamt up by Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, Rice, Kristol, Feith, Bolton, Libby, Abrams, Ridge, Poindexter, Rove, Card – inhale- and the rest of the NeoClown Circus was enough to turn the world against it. The fact that each of it’s policies have failed miserably in the eyes of the international community has vilified Americans and made the world much less secure. To put it simply, the perpetual war on terrorism to protect the homeland has isolated Americans and pissed of the rest of the world.

The latest blunder from the White House is that of two of its top level aides leaked information to journalist Bob Novak that the wife of former Ambassador Joe Wilson is a CIA agent. This was apparently in retaliation for Wilson’s coming forward and claiming that he had been sent by the CIA to investigate the fraudulent claim that Niger had sole Uranium Yellow cakes to Iraq. While the US public and Congress are calling for an independent investigation into which ‘most insidious’ traitor was responsible for this crime, it has for the time being been handed over to John Ashcroft to deal with, where we are certain to expect an honest and unadulterated inquiry.

Like the Hutton inquiry regarding the ‘Sexed-Up’ Dossier, used to persuade the British Parliament to authorize the use of force against Iraq, this inquiry will likely show that no one, in fact, released any information (and that we are all in paranoid anti-patriot land). The UK case is the exact parallel to what is happening in the US in that it was the Niger uranium yellow-cake claims which the administration knowingly lied about to pressure Congress into singing resolution 107-243. When Joe Wilson declared that he had been sent to Niger at the behest of Cheney’s office and came back with no evidence supporting the claim that Cheney was seeking to establish, the Bush Administration sought to intimidate Wilson and others from acting in a similar fashion.

A critical piece of info to bear in mind in all of this is that ordinarily the intelligence agency will investigate things they believe are of importance. In this case, Cheney and Libby went to the CIA and asked them to come up with information supporting their claims- the opposite of the way things usually take place within the intelligence community. Even the National Intelligence Estimate cited by the Administration has admittedly gaping holes regarding Iraq’s WMD program. As it turns out, Iraq does not have the WMD the Administration claimed they did. Rumsfeld, et al, are of course saying that they need more time and $600,000,000. Isn’t more time what the UN and international community was asking for to verify, or disprove, the existence of WMD in Iraq- or, rather, the existence of a WMD program, or even a few scientists who might want to build some bombs.

With regard to international policy, The Bush Administration has violated just about every international law I can think of- not to mention the US Constitution. US foreign policy is no longer run by State. Instead, US foreign policy is controlled by the Department of Defense and the Pentagon, the dictates of which preemptive wars to protect American interests abroad are the main strategy for achieving world supremacy. As Chomsky states, “Preventive war is, very simply, the 'supreme crime' condemned at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals."

In invading a sovereign nation without a security council resolution authorizing the use of force, or a declaration of war issued by congress, this administration has engaged in a policy which can only be seen by the international community as a completely arrogant and empirical transition from the US as a member of an international community which , many years in the making, has struggled to create and maintain the integrity of countless international organizations and treatises to prevent nations from precisely what the US has chosen to do.

The US has left a brutal mess flourishing in Afghanistan, where US troops and civilians are killed on a regular basis. Pre-taliban warlords, the very same ones provided with cash and military equipment by the US during it’s Mujahadeen war against the former soviet Union, have taken over much of the country and there is little safety or security for women and children.

In Iraq conditions are much the same. The Neocons have blundered terribly in their gross underestimation of what would be necessary to stabilize Iraq. That or they fully intended to leave it in chaos while they raped the Iraqis of their culture, history, land, and natural resources. What else could they have been thinking, that the Shiites, Sunni’s and Kurds were going to sit down to tea and crumpets. Perhaps the Project for the New American Century has other plans for destabilizing the nation. Their product “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” directly states this, as does a craftwork from some of the very same people about four years prior (1996) - written for the Israeli government under Netanyahu - entitled “A Clean Break, A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”. Needles to say that the realm has never been less secure and that Iraqi’s and American’s are getting killed and maimed on an hourly basis. The Israeli Palestine ‘conflict’ has never been better- in the eyes of Sharon and his Zionist friends in Washington.

…And the US has been hit by record deficits never before even imagined. Jobs are lost by the millions and the rich get their taxes cut while military personal are getting their benefits slashed. All of this while the US is planning a new line of tactical nuclear weapons to deter everyone else from developing them.

In the mean time, there is no Bin Laden, no Saddam, no WMD, and an apparently endless stream of lies emanating from the ‘Pent’-House.

Maybe now that Bush’s’ approval rating has sunk there will be a renewed call for impeachment.

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