I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE
Jan 08 '03
The Bottom Line The "Supreme Court-elected president" is wanting to wage a war to get the spotlight off his failures domestically.
O.K., so I borrowed the title from a line Peter Finch delivered in the movie "Network". I was hoping to get your
attention. For the last several months, I have been listening to our unelected president, the mighty Shrub (as Molly Ivans wittily named him long ago when he was only governor of my home state and could not do too much harm) beat his chest and say idiotic things like, "If Iraq doesn't get rid of its nuclear weapons, then we might have to use our nuclear weapons against them." What in the hell is wrong with this guy? Where is the logic in that threat?
More importantly, what gives us the right to say which countries can and cannot have "weapons of mass destruction"? Since when were we appointed the policemen for Earth? I heard the not-too-liberal Paul Harvey speak to this subject in September, 2002 when he pointed out to the blustering, threatening Bush that there are several countries that already have nuclear weapons such as India, N. Korea, France, Pakistan, Russia, Great Britain, Israel and Red China. At this time, Bush is jumping up and down about a nation that MIGHT have a nuclear weapon in several months. Mr. Harvey asked the president why he is focusing on a potential threat when there are numerous actual threats all over the world. Again, Paul Harvey is not known to be a "knee-jerk" liberal as Rush Limbaugh likes to call anyone left of himself.
Don't get me wrong, I have no love for Saddam Hussein. He is a butcher of many of his own people. He is a tyrant. But does he actually threaten the security of the United States with his potential nuclear weapons? Even if he develops THE BOMB, what in the hell is he going to do with one or two of them? Does anyone really think that he could harm the U.S. with a few bombs? He has no delivery system. His country is thousands of miles from our shore. If he were insane enough to use such weapons, guess how long it would take for our defense system to turn Iraq into a radioactive parking lot? A few hours.
So I ask myself, WHAT ARE THE REAL REASONS THAT BUSH IS MAKING SUCH A BIG DEAL OF IRAQ'S POTENTIAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
I can think of three obvious reasons:
1. BUSH'S TOTAL FAILURE IN THE ECONOMIC ARENA
One of the main reasons that I am writing this "editorial" is a story that I saw on 60 Minutes 2 tonight. The story documented the shocking amount of hunger that is present in the United States right now. The story showed food lines in middle America (Ohio to be exact) that are growing at an alarming rate. Since Shrub has taken office, the acceleration of hunger has increased. The people in these lines were not what Bush and his millionaire buddies criticize as "welfare bums". Most of the people shown had at least one person in the family working full time. At minimum wage.
So what does Bush want to do about such hunger and the myriad other economical woes in the U.S.? He proposes a tax
plan that gives the greatest benefit to people who make more than $100,000 a year. The bulk of his tax plan's reduction will go to the richest 2% of our population. So what else is new? Bush also proposed recently that corporations should be allowed to calculate pension benefits based on the early years of their employees' wages rather than the later years as is currently the law. He actually stated that doing this would "save the corporations millions of dollars." What about the
workers, Bushbrain? One worker for AT&T calculated that his pension plan benefits would be cut in half if such a plan is implemented. This is another example of the Bush failure to understand the working class of which he had never been a member.
So, why not throw out the threat of war against the EVIL AXIS to get our minds off his failure in the economic arena?
2. OIL
I'm from West Texas which is oil country. In fact, I live twenty miles from the "home of the Bushes", Midland,
Texas. The oil industry has been hurting for many years in this country and as we all know, oil is not an infinite resource. Iraq has a lot of oil within its borders. So does Kuwait. Does anyone really doubt that the real reason we came to Kuwait's rescue was that it was an oil rich kingdom that we might have lost access to? The monarchy in Kuwait is almost as corrupt as Saddam but we galloped to their side to protect our own interests. Why not attack Iraq and put one of our buddies in control there so our oil resources will remain plentiful. I hate to think that Shrub would stoop so low but I don't put it past him.
3. SADDAM TRIED TO HAVE DADDY KILLED
After George Bush the First left office, there was an attempted assassination of him sponsored by Saddam H. Shrub used the above words in defending his threats against Iraq. I heard them from his own smirking mouth. "He tried to kill my daddy." Well, Mr. President, that was a dastardly thing to do but is this how we want to make foreign policy? I have a better idea for you, George. Instead of sending thousands of young Americans to do your dirty work, why don't you challenge Saddam to a duel? You and he can meet at high noon and talk one another to death. I'm sure your Bushisms will drive Saddam and his translators insane before he can get a sentence out of his dirty Axis mouth.
I suppose another reason I'M MAD AS HELL is that I keep hearing that the majority of Americans favor a war against
Iraq. What I can't figure out is who is being polled (and as Letterman points out we all know how painful that is). All of the people I talk to doubt the wisdom of such a war when we have little or no proof of the weapons of mass destruction and only a few countries are willing to stand with us.
Finally, I want to repeat my earlier question. WHO HAS DESIGNATED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO BE THE WORLD'S POLICEMAN? More importantly, what has happened to the concept that the USA does not start wars? Remember that one? Was it always just a fantasy? All of a sudden, we are the aggressors. Does that not make you MAD AS HELL TOO?
I wish the president would spend more time worrying about the plight of the average citizen in this country and the
economic mess that he has us in than what Saddam H. might do in the future.
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