Bush Just Doesn’t Get It
I watched the president fumble through his speech tonight and still don’t get the rationale behind sending 20,000 more troops to Iraq. It’s like treating a stab wound with a Band-Aid (TM).
And instead of looking for a way out of a mess that he and his cronies lied to get us into in the first place (including Pa. State Rep. Steve Barrar — my opponent in the 2004 election — who has so much blood on his hands that it seems unlikely any skin is visible), now Bush wants to expand the war to include Iran and Syria, two countries with formidable militaries and one with nuclear weapons.
This is madness. Thank God, the American people have finally gotten it. Congress seems to get it. But George W. Bush doesn’t seem to get it.
So it falls in our hands to do something. No, I’m not embracing violence or illegal activity. But we need to send a stronger message to this president who is boss — we are. The time has come to organize a general strike, shut this country down for a day of discussion and stop the economy dead in its tracks. Only this, which will certainly get the attention of the corporate types who have served as Bush’s enablers, can make a meaningful change in our policy. The people must speak.
Strike for peace.