January 1^st, 2007.  I lit three firecrackers. 
 It's a new year...

     We have reason for hope.  The thumpin'  November 7th, means we may find redemption and renewal, instead of deficits, destruction, and dishonor.  But we will have
to insist that George do the right thing. 
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We’ve come to a parting of ways and an ultimatum.  The no longer silent majority, has flatly rejected illegal torture, egregious wiretapping, endless war, imperial ambition, corporate arrogance, situational ethics, abject intolerance, and dismissive amorality. 
It is now a time for accountability.  And George must stand and deliver.

The experts: military, intelligence, diplomatic, tactical, CIA, FBI, international, and local...
have spoken, written, cajoled, pleaded, and demanded that George respond in an
appropriate manner to the evidence and analysis they have provided.  It is past time.
We can no longer indulge stubborn George with our troops in harms way.

The Iraq fiasco was either ill-advised, poorly-considered, ineptly executed, and miserably mismanaged... or it was driven by ambitions and priorities which contradicted the best interests of America. This failed administration has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives.  Blatant cronyism and corporate welfare have put our military in the position of mercenaries.  Our military is being misused as an enforcement arm for transnational economic cartels.  This makes our soldiers all-too convenient targets in the “breeding ground for terror,” which our civilian leadership has created.

Since we have been assured, repeatedly, that all is going according to plan, we must accept that this administration intended to create the chaos which exists in Iraq.  This violence provides a distraction from our building the largest “embassy” compound on the planet and the construction of long-term military installations which are intended to be used to  secure and control the “privatization” of various Iraqi resources.  This cynical misuse of our troops is criminal and irresponsible. No two ways about it.   

Frankly, what this adventurism has cost in US taxpayer dollars and the lives of contractors, military personnel, and civilian victims is too dear a price for partisan political “favors.” Mr., Bush can put an end to the most significant military, diplomatic, and tactical errors since the second world war,  by doing the right thing… or he can step down. 

At this point, it matters very little what stubborn, pouting, irrational George thinks.  He has
made himself less than relevant.  The facts on the ground and objective reality have proven him a pariah in denial.  Mistakes and fatal errors continue.  Fundamental change is required.   Our national security hangs in the balance.

If it becomes “George’s way or the highway…,”  then its time he hit the road. 
...That, or face the music.  

Timothy Martin Flanagan      /    Associate Editor: The Wordsmith, Collection
 

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