Gaper’s Block

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

A February 16 article in the Washington Post once again revealed that the Bush-Cheney wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran are just three of their wars. (You can be sure that covert activity is underway in Iran already through surrogates or through elite U.S. military units).

On the home front, Cheney and Bush have conducted a multi-year war on the intelligence community and the Pentagon (as well as the Constitution). As just one example, read this excerpt from the Washington Post story:

"Outgoing Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker said yesterday that the increase of 17,500 Army combat troops in Iraq represents only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ and will potentially require thousands of additional support troops and trainers, as well as equipment -- further eroding the Army's readiness to respond to other world contingencies."

Over the past few years, there has been clear resistance from Pentagon brass to the Cheney-Bush (Rumsfeld) war plan. In short, many of the top military commanders have indicated that the ongoing White House war failure is detrimental to our troops and our national preparedness.

How the Republicans in Congress continue to support a regime that betrays our military should be something that shames them. But nothing appears to cause them embarrassment. Like the followers of Jim Jones, they will be loyal to failure as they drink the last drop of poisoned Kool-Aid.

The battle against terrorism has always been an argument about strategy, not about whether or not anybody supports "the enemy" – as the Fifth Column in the GOP likes to portray opponents of the sociopathological man in the White House and his Vice Presidential Rasputin.

Does anyone in the U.S. support terrorism?

Not that we know of. Survival is a basic human instinct, so Americans oppose terrorism.

But they want the effort to keep terrorism from killing Americans to be an effective one.

And all Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have done is create a giant gaper’s block of endless conflict with the wrong enemy in the wrong place at the wrong time – and they are losing the wrong wars while exhausting – according to Pentagon experts – our strategic military capabilities.

Republicans who champion rewarding people based on performance have swallowed hard to support a standard of failure and desperation that they would not tolerate as employers.

Yet, they prop up an administration and president that has strategically been a disaster. It has kicked out or silenced any critics within the intelligence community or Pentagon that have not gone along with its bankrupt policies that threaten American national security.

Can anyone in their right mind, anyone interested in the survival of this nation, please tell us what in George W. Bush’s professional or personal history has made him more capable of deciding military policy than the top Pentagon brass?

Can anyone in their right mind, anyone interested in the survival of this nation, please tell us what in Dick Cheney’s professional or personal history has made him more capable of interpreting classified intelligence than CIA experts?

It’s time America move beyond the gaper’s block that Bush and Cheney have created.

It’s time to remove the drivers who caused the accident and charge them with DUD, driving under delusions.

In short, it’s time for Bush and Cheney to leave the houses that the American taxpayers provide them – and restore to the White House someone who can ensure our national security, not degrade our military preparedness and launch wars of folly.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL