The Blinders of Faith: One Needn't Be Troubled By What Doesn't Fit In

I couldn't have said it better myself. From The Washington Post on Bush's impending (first ever) veto of a bill that would outlaw torture at American hands. Absolutely staggering...:

The many laws and precedents that limit government authority do not, Bush insists, limit him. He is, as always, a firm believer in what he believes.

President Bush: 2,000 Counts of 1st Degree Murder

That lying sack of shit in the Whitehouse let us to war killing 2,000 US soldiers and god only knows how many Iraqis over nothing but his fantasy. Did he believe his own web of bullshit? Who knows…maybe. After all - as a Born Again Christian his whole world view is based on belief in the absence of any supporting evidence and in spite of piles evidence to the contrary.

The man should be tried for the murder of each and every life lost in Iraq.

From Newsweek:

The CIA declined to comment on the draft report. But officials tell NEWSWEEK that Zarqawi probably did travel to the Iraqi capital in the spring of 2002 for medical treatment. And, of course, there is no question that he is in Iraq now orchestrating many of the deadly suicide bombings and attacks on American soldiers.

But before the American-led invasion, Saddam's government may never have known he was there. The reason: he used an alias and was there under what one U.S. intelligence official calls a "false cover." No evidence has been found showing senior Iraqi officials were even aware of his presence, according to two counterterrorism analysts familiar with the classified CIA study who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.

More to Terrify than Terror Itself

From The Wasington Post:

...a solemn vow from President Bush not to "rest or tire until the war on terror is won."

“Terror” is not a country. Nor is it a group. It isn’t anything that war can be waged against. It’s an emotion for fucks sake. It’s not even an ideology…Business practice...Political strategy... Nothing. In fact, since The President keeps referring to 9/11 and other frightening things to justify his lack of coherent policy one might easily say he adds to people’s feeling of terror.

No – there is one reason why he keeps repeating this ‘newspeak” of his. Since one cannot win a war against an emotion it justifies anything he wants to do for as long as he wants. And when the polls look too grim – he can declare victory and throw himself a tickertape parade. Sure there will be Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel… and insurgents in Baghdad… and threats in London, Lisbon, and New York. But those will be the work of “Foes of Democracy”. “Terror” will have been defeated because the President will have said so.

And that's terrifying.

War on Terror NOT ENOUGH!

Since our great nation has devoted it's sacred honor, fortune, and the lives of so many to a War on Terror why stop there? Sure, I agree that terror is... well... terrible. But there are others.

We cannot let Sorrow escape. Depression. Unease. Malaise (or is that suspiciously French?).

Nor should Low Self Esteem - a feeling plaguing our nation in headlines and airwaves for DECADES now - be allowed to hide in the recesses of our minds or the Pakistani mountains.

And Pain. That is one which causes so much hurt in our lives.

No - I say that pacifist wimp Bush has not gone near far enough.

I call for a War on All Unpleasantness.