Oh, the Humanity...

Wow, I could be writing about any number of things, right now. Iraq is a mess and America is most of the reason for it. This is not to say that all Americans are bad or that even the USGov is all bad. But I do have to say most of the USGov is bad. Some may mean well, but mostly, people are only in superficial things like party loyalty and keeping their jobs and, well, that's it really.

My hero in the Republican party has an opportunity to change the world and the course of history, but instead he has chosen to put party loyalty over the interests of the American people and also, the people of Earth in general. Kerry has said that John McCain should run on Kerry's ticket.

This would change everything. It would allow the Republicans to vote for one of their own AND vote Bush out. It would allow the Democrats who don't like Kerry to vote for someone who is a little more dynamic. (A LOT more.) It would truly unite the parties in a way that has never been done before. But rather than rise to the challenge and changing the world and making history, McCain feels that his reputation and the reputation of Bush 43 is more important that making a powerful statement of unity to the country, to the world and to history.

The problem right now is that the Republicans (and the Democrats, to a large degree) don't seem to care what history will think of them. All they care about is the "right now" and the next election cycle.

McCain is a good and decent man, but he is too interested in the traditional "value" of being "accepted" among the people he agrees most with. He is too scared to move outside the box and stand up for, what, in the end is the right thing.

It's undeniable that Bush 43 has been a rotten president. He took the post-911 good will that the world had for us and turned it into hatred for us. He appointed people who care nothing of human life, not to mention the lives of American soldiers or the Geneva Convention. On 911, somehow three planes managed to kill 3000 people on the ground, yet Bush 43 has never stepped forward and explained why fighters weren't scrambled in time to shoot down the planes, which is standard procedure. When Payne Stewart's plane went off course back in 1999, less than twenty minutes after air traffic controllers lost touch with the pilot, an F-16 intercepted the plane and could have shot it down had it been heading toward a city.

In Iraq we were told several things by the Bush 43 Admin that did not end up being the case.

1) Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
2) The invasion would be swift and short.
3) The Iraqi people would welcome us. (I believe the phrase was "They throw flowers at our feet.")
4) We have to get this ruthless tyrant out of power.

And here's how it worked out:

1) The only thing they've found after more than a year of being in Iraq is a single bomb with a small amount of nerve gas in it. When it exploded, it barely harmed two US soldiers. Not exactly a threat to the USA or even Israel. In fact, one of the things Rumsfeld said early on suggested we would find the WMD in a matter of days or weeks.

2) The invasion was not swift or short. Over a year after Bush 43 declared major combat operations to be at an end, the number of USMil soldiers was higher than the total loss during the official part of the war. In fact, the very urban guerilla warfare that critics of the Iraq Attack had warned about before the invasion is exactly what US troops have faced (and still face)in cities like Falujah, Najaf and Karbala.

3) While many Iraqi people were happy to see Saddam go, the last thing they were expecting was to see their people wrongfully imprisoned and tortured at one of Saddam's old prisons. The second to last thing they expected was for the US to screw up the few things that Saddam did right, like stable water and power supplies and rights for women.

4) In all honesty, we did NOT need to get this ruthless tyrant out of power. Sure, in the past year a few more thousand Iraqi civilians would probably have suffered and died directly or indirectly because of Saddam, but that's a fraction of the number of civilians that have died because of the US invasion. As I write this the figure is around 11,000 Iraqi civilians dead. Another point is that there are much worse regimes in the world. Take US ally, Saudi Arabia. Did you know they have a religious police? If you think insurgents decapitating someone is savage, how about a government that stones a woman for committing adultery. A law there says stoning someone is ok! Even capital punishment in the US is more humane than stoning to death - and this is part of their LAWS.

The point is. the Bush 43 Admin has made a lot of mistakes. Many, toward the left, think that Bush and Company have lied to the American people and to the people of the world. Those to the right say that it was bad intelligence. But that suggests that the Bush 43 Admin can't tell when it is bad intelligence. So, the argument then becomes, either they were lying or they were stupid for not knowing the truth.

Now, the way the United States was built was partially based on the concept of being innocent until proven guilty. I've served on a jury and we had to decide whether these two men were guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. This means that if we had any doubts at all, ANY at all about whether they were guilty or not, we should pronounce them not guilty.

This was not done in the case of Iraq.

There was no conclusive evidence of WMD. There were things that pointed toward Saddam having WMD, but nothing connecting Saddam to WMD. In other words, there was a reasonable doubt.

Do you want to see more people die in Iraq, both Iraqi's and Americans?

Do you want to see the Bush 43 Admin make fools of the ideals America was supposed to have been founded on?

Do you want Bush to tell you more things that aren't true?

Hell, the Republicans called Clinton an evil guy, but the only thing he was convicted of was lying under oath. Bush 43 has broken International Law, and indirectly committed war crimes. If that's not enough for impeachment, I don't know what is.

Screw voting him out - he needs to be charged with crimes. He needs to be impeached and taken from office. We need to send a message to the future that the American people of the early 21st century put their differences aside and took care of business.

Do you call yourself a conservative? Do you call yourself a liberal? Do you call yourself an American?

I do.

And justice must be served.

Of course, in my mind we should have never let it get this bad. I feel like we should have been able to trust Bush 43 to do the right thing, as well as ourselves, as well as Saddam and Osama and so on. We humans should trust each other to do the right thing for all of humanity, not just for our own personal interests. I don't write this because I think it will some how make me money. I don't write this because I plan to run for office some day. I write this because I hope in some way it will make the world a better place.

Imagine if Osama had just decided to write a blog instead of killing 3000 people. What a better world this would be...

And Bush would still be assumed to be a dumb ass. Which, of course, is the truth.

Ah, humans... most of us are dumb asses.

Check out everything the Bush 43 Admin has said to mislead you about the Iraq Attack. Seriously, it's a really cool site - you can search for lies by subject or the person who said them! COOL!