Reading and listening to the news from the White House and this administration is like reading news of the weird. The administration has clearly blundered into Iraq and is now blundering out of Iraq. In the process they are blaming everyone but themselves for the debacle. Democrats in Congress are trying to show them the way out by introducing a firm exit date into the discussion. In return they are told by that straight shooter Vice President Dick Cheney that they are undermining the troops.
The U. S. Military comes under heavy fire for its treatment of the wounded and Bush calls on Bob Dole who promptly blames the Veterans’ service organizations for not complaining loud and long enough about the terrible conditions our veterans are asked to endure to get the care they need, if they get it at all.
No doubt to change the subject from the military’s glaring failures elsewhere, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs tells us that homosexuality is immoral. So, instead of addressing real military issues such as the war in Iraq, the quest for Bin Laden, and the hardships the Bush White House places on our returning veterans, we are now all to play another round of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and attack the gays in the military.
The Office of the President demands and gets the heads of U. S. Attorneys In several states – eight by last count – because they aren’t team (read Republican Party) players and lies outright to congress about the whole fiasco.
The Office of the Vice-President outs a CIA agent, Valerie Plame, makes Good O’l Boy Scooter the scapegoat to save the VP from the political gallows and promptly starts up the right wing whacko chorus in a never ending rendition of Let’s Pardon Scooter! The real culprits are known to everyone – Cheney and Rove – yet they will never be in the dock for this one.
Can things get anymore bizarre? Of course they can, just wait for the war with Iran.
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