Thank your local neocon today

Neitzian supermen - and women – have been in charge of American foreign policy for six years with clear results: we’re isolated in the world community of nations; these ubermen have committed us to internationally illegal preventive warfare against a state that posed virtually no risk to us or its neighbors; in the name of saving a people, they’ve caused them more harm to its citizens than the immoral regime we toppled to help them; by their blundering they’ve empowered the two most important members of the `Axis of Evil’ that they intended to cow; they’ve lost more than 3,000 American lives; and they’ve committed the nation to spending more than two trillion dollars as a result.

In addition, they’ve strengthened the hands of our major rivals China and Russia. They’ve turned the vast majority of people of one of the world’s largest and most important civilization from probably mild dislike of America to open hatred of us. They’ve stretched our Army and Marines to the breaking point. It goes on and on.

Frankly, you’d expect a reaction from the White House that would diminish the power of these neoconservative ubermen – and women - who pointed the president and the nation on this course, but, of course, you’d be wrong. Instead the president has doubled down his bets in Iraq. Next time you’re out, thank your local neocon.

In mitigation of this madness, however, we have to take into account that those in charge, Dubya and Dick, are really lost and confused souls. Need I mention Katrina again? How about their inability to get their stories straight on firing a bunch of U.S. Attorney’s; hasn’t anyone ever told them that they shouldn’t write down their most brilliant Machiavellian schemes? Actually, underlings always write that baloney down because they assume that their ideas are going to work out just as they dreamed and they want full credit for them. And poor Scooter, has there ever been a nobler one man hara-kiri? Instead…

By the way, Dubya’s surprised about the scandalous treatment of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed and elsewhere. Of course he’s surprised. The only thing he ordered was that the DOD budget be wrung out to the point that the costs of the war are back loaded to the greatest extent possible. How could he ever know that brain damaged men and women wouldn’t be afforded the best possible long term care? He couldn’t, but something had to give if he was to escape to Crawford with his successor left holding the big bag of manure.

Dubya and Dick have lost control of almost everything but their war powers. Real Republicans and conservatives are diving for cover in foreign policy, the Iraq War, education and law enforcement. While I might have been a few days premature in naming Bush a limping water fowl in January of ’06, have you seen his imitation of Walter Brennan or heard his imitation of Donald Duck over these past few months? Sure bears a resemblance to a sorry duck in my book.

Not to worry, only 677 days from noon today.

Blog on!

Wild Bill