But the rest isn’t so easy. It’s about perception of reality.

You see there is something very important that you folks missed as you followed the Iraq War:

THE IRAQ WAR IS A LIE !

Typical for an educated lefty, I saw it coming. I was familiar with the background of the players, their flaws, their fears, their lack of integrity. I knew Baby George desperately wanted to out-do his father and “go into Baghdad like they should have back in ‘91″. And I knew that Cheney was a CEO for a huge defense contracting firm (he’s still paid over $1 million/year by Halliburton). And I knew that Cheney had worked with Enron and oil companies on a secret plan to build an oil pipeline through Afghanistan (The meetings were held in the White House, yet all attempts to retrieve notes on the meetings have been defeated. So much for the White House being “the peoples’ house”.)
I guess my eyes are a little faster – You see, as I watched George, Dick, Colin, and the entire US mass media perform the blatant bait-and-switch of Saddam for Osama, it was a non-starter for me. It was clearly a way for oil interests and war profiteers to use the tragedy of 911 to make a killing (pun intended). I was stunned that they actually convinced so many that the US should end it’s 227-year-old policy of not starting wars.

You folks missed the swap (how could you???), and you allowed the administration to turn the Iraq War into a seemingly high-minded and necessary fight against evil – much like WWII ACTUALLY was. And you even let that cabal convince you that opposition to their war-for-profit (war-for-respectability in Baby George’s case) was a form of treason.

You are still not aware of the truths I speak above, or else your egos are very cunning in the use of denial and confusion.

And what is the message of your piece about body counts? Your message here is that when it comes to military disaster, Baby George is no worse than Clinton. Are you serious?

Of course you are. You’ve bought into a whole universe of lies. I don’t want to scare you, but your universe is crumbling, as all lies eventually do. If you had proper integrity, you’d spend the next few years shunning the uneducated windbags like Imus, O’Reilly, Limbaugh, and read the war accounts of real people who participated at the infantry level – the killing level. And you should spend your mornings and evenings meditating to try to discern REALITY – which would necessarily include the pain that the hawkish rich have inflicted on our country and the world…. and then, maybe then… return to journalism – with a sense of what it might feel like to have your darling two-year-old daughter blown apart by a cluster-bomb.

Military action is something you undertake only when absolutely necessary – as when a fascist dictator is conquering Europe, or when the Serbs are systematically eradicating the Muslim minority in Yugoslavia.

The suspicion of ownership of chemical weapons or a uranium enrichment plant – particularly when the knowledgeable people of reason and integrity* are telling you that you are mistaken – is not justification for war.

The actions of the Bush administration with regard to Iraq (and just about everything else) are unacceptable and criminal. If there was ever a President that needed to be impeached, it is this one.

Why “needed”? Because when crimes of this magnitude go unacknowledged and unpunished, nothing is learned, and the same deadly chicanery will only continue.

Chuck R

* Read Joe Wilson, dozens of unnamed CIA career analysts, many smart people in the millitary, and many former presidential advisers. By the way, the outing of Mr. Wilson’s wife, a CIA operative, is treason, and Bush, Cheney, and liar-in-chief Rove are guilty. All the more reason why impeachment is a necessary and urgent matter.

No one knew or heard of the 7,500 that died under Clinton…. That was not news worthy…..

While those shoulders were dieing, he was getting a head job from Monica….. and everyone said —- Hey that is ok!