HOME OF THE BRAVE?

On May 23rd, President Bush provided completely incontrovertible and incontestable evidence and proof that he has lost it, that circumstances and events have conspired to cause him to become wholly delusional, no longer with even a semblance of contact with the existing reality.

On this auspicious occasion, he ranted about conditions in Iraq, completely oblivious of the fact that these are conditions which he, with his wholly unjustified act of aggression, created.

If, the latest spin being promoted by the Bush Administration is credible, if it is more than another political ploy to attempt to shore up the dismally poor, and plummeting, approval ratings of the President; that indeed Iraq is being used as a training ground by Al Qaeda, a staging area from which attacks can be launched on targets in the USA, how did this come to be so?

This is one, of numerous negative consequences produced by a wholly unjustified attack on a sovereign nation, an attack which not only overthrew its duly constituted government, that destroyed its economy and infrastructure; it also destroyed its security forces and its ability to secure its borders so that the boundaries of that pitiful nation can currently be infiltrated by any representative of any Muslim Fundamentalist organization with a grievance, real or imagined, against Americans.

Moreover, it the fact that Americans are in Iraq, that dreaded, feared, hated and most of all, very vulnerable Americans are in Iraq, that are attracting to this country, like bees drawn to honey, like moths fatally attracted to an open flame; mindless, suicidal killers from all over the Muslim world.

On this same day, Congress worked until very late, a very unusual situation for these highly paid incompetents, to produce a spending bill to fund this war which is killing, for no good reason, with no realistically attainable objective, some of the best and bravest young people in this country.

Many of these Members of Congress; were elected because the American people went to the polls in recent elections to express their dissatisfaction with the way this war was being conducted.

Mindful of the discontent rife in the body politic; and, with an eye to the upcoming Presidential Elections, Congress is doing its best to extract the Allied Forces from the quagmire the Bush Administration has created in Iraq, a situation that becomes more desperate and tragic with the passing of each and every day.

Another very important and complicated issue to the American people facing the Congress is the Immigration Bill, and every report seems to indicate that they are going to make a complete hash of this piece of legislation as well.

The question that arises out of this series of debacles by an elected government:Is whether realistically the USA can be truthfully and accurately described as the land of the free and home of the brave at this particular moment in the history of this nation?

President Bush might have been able to fool the American people when he was engaging in the foul and odious assassination of the character of Senator John McCain, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War and prisoner of war during that conflict, even though he had used his father‘s influence to serve in the Texas National Guard.

Many might have ignored the fact that his victory over Al Gore was suspect, that he might have become President because faulty voting machines were placed in democratic strongholds and so votes were not counted that would have denied him the high office he now holds.

There was perhaps understandable ambivalence given the confusion and turmoil created by the 911 attack about whether he contrived the justifications for the attack and Iraq; and, about the incompetence and faulty planning that attended the prosecution of hostilities against that nation.

Some might even excuse the Swift Boat advertisements and the character assassination of another Vietnam veteran, Senator John Kerry; that allowed him to win another term in office.

But now that his chickens all have come home to roost, what are Americans waiting on to remove from office this spoiled, deluded child who acts as he is a latter day monarch?

And what about the Congress, why are they so afraid of impeaching this President, but engage in the slow tortuous process of endless debate about funding of a war that all and sundry know is already lost; but in which more and more young Americans perish and are maimed in what has become, obviously and incontrovertibly, an exercise in futility?

Could it be that they lack the guts, the intestinal fortitude required to excise from the body politic the cancer that the Bush Administration has become - before it metastasizes and destroys this nation.

If one confronted anywhere a rabid skunk, it would be very clear what needed to be done, to protect the community; it is very clear, at least to me, what needs to be done to rectify this situation.

Americans take for granted their vaunted superiority to all the other peoples of the world.But most animals, not human beings mind you, but animals; routinely teach their young the skills needed for survival; yet Americans have presided over the decline in their education system for a quarter of a century and seem incapable of doing anything about it, they endlessly and interminably are content to be the dropout nation of the world.

This certainly is the primary and fundamental duty of every adult individual, of every community, of every nation, to be responsible for the education and welfare of their children.

Any people who cannot accomplish this task must be deemed to be wholly contemptible; and, only such a people would tolerate such criminal and blind incompetence from its elected government.

Any American who has a smidgen of the courage exhibited by those who carved this nation out of the wilderness must belatedly adopt the slogan “Not one more senseless and meaningless death in Iraq” and make this so by demonstrating to the Government who has power under the Constitution of this nation.

William E. Virtue
3222 Airways Blvd # 312
Memphis TN 38116

Ph: 901-201-8090