The thousand year war

With some smug satisfaction George Bush must be clearing brush in Crawford and thinking, "Shit, I did it. I plunged America into a war that will never end."

Of course, I'm not a mind reader. And even if I were, I'd be able to polish off Bush's volume in under an hour. And disturbing reading it would be.

But isn't Obama's recent backsliding on Abu Ghraib photos, military commissions and expansion of a war in Afghanistan a symptom of a trap that was laid for him, for us, by the manipulative warmongers of the Bush administration?

If you haven't read Chris Hedges, War is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, you should. If you don't have the time to plow through 230 harrowing pages, then spend ten minutes reading this essay.

Of necessity. For our country, the world, our sanity, our society we need to extricate ourselves from the immoral, unnecessary wars foisted upon us by the Bush administration. Obama is a good and thoughtful man with his ankle in a bear trap. He needs to ignore the political pain and move us to a standing of peace as soon as is possible.

Just call me a "politically paranoid, hyper-partisan"

Creepy Joe Lieberman has lashed out at the Democrats who voted against him in the primary election last year, and at anyone in the "Democratic base" who disagree with his bellicose, imperialistic, warmongering ways.

Read what he has to say, and you'll know that Lieberman cares about as little for the people who elected him as he does for the people who voted against him. Creepy Joe cares about Creepy Joe.

Chickenhawk Lieberman Squawks

Creepy Joe can't seem to get enough of any war he doesn't have to fight personally. But a few people have had enough of him.

It may be that Lieberman suffers from attention deficit disorder. That is, when he has a deficit of attention paid to him, it amounts to a disorder in his mind. Whatever the case, his saber rattling, carries the horrible sound of apocalypse.

People try to put us d-d-d-down

Just the person we need to run the military. Mike Mullen, genuine crusader who believes we're fighting a generational war. The kind of general Eisenhower was thinking of when he coined "military industrial complex."

As Billy Bragg said: War what is it good for? It's good for business.