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President Bush, "the decider", has decided to "surge" his massively unpopular war against Iraq. World opinion is against the escalation, the American people are against it, Congress is against it, and the Iraqi government is against it.Bush and Vice President Cheney are spoiling for more war like a street gang on the prowl for a victim to assault. They have us hopelessly bogged down in two never-ending wars; the justifiable, but half-hearted one in Afghanistan to shut down al-Qaida and capture Osama bin-Laden and the unprovoked one against Iraq ... to do - what? Nevertheless and incredibly, they are now concocting a case for starting yet a third one against Iran. Because of the unavailability of sufficient ground troops all indications are that this might well be a nuclear attack on Iran's conjectured nuclear development sites.
To the sane world the use of nuclear weapons is unthinkable, but Bush and Cheney aren't part of that world. We've moved well beyond the absurd into the realm of grotesque fantasy. To compound the delusion Cheney, lost in his own zone of unreality, is insanely spreading the fantasy of "enormous progress" in the misbegotten "war on terror."
World War I Double Medal of Honor recipient, Marine General Smedley D. Butler, suggested: "There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket." By this measure the Bush-Cheney wars are a racket; their claim of "protecting the homeland" is - in the words of another military authority, Colonel Sherman T. Potter of the 4077th MASH unit - "Bullfeathers!"
