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The White House has announced that the increasing violence and deaths in Iraq are a sign of success. Got that? More violence and death equal success. The question has always been, "Why did George Bush invade Iraq?" Well, now we know. His definition of success in Iraq is increasing death and violence. According to that, he has succeeded admirably. At the rate he's going, it will take about another sixty years to equal the "success" of the Vietnam war and the number of U.S. soldiers killed there. The only problem is, Bush will run out of Iraqis before he runs out of U.S. soldiers.
There must ba a magic number of U.S. soldiers' deaths that the U.S. is waiting for. It was over 58,000 thirty years ago. Will it take that same number this time? Is that what you're waiting for? Isn't 3,500 enough? Wasn't one more than enough?
We now know that the democratic process doesn't work. The Democrats control congress and have voted to continue Bush's war. Add them to the stagnant remnants of Bush's Republicans in congress, and we have 535 people plus one Bush who are in defiance of the large majority of about 200 million people who want this war stopped.
Something's going to have to give. The Iraq war was started by George Bush, extra-legally, with lies and deception. We've tried the legal ways to end the war and discovered that there are no legal ways to do it. We have no control of our congress. We have another guaranteed nineteen months of George Bush's war. Well, that's too long. Tomorrow and every day, thereafter, will be too long.
OK, if I'm so smart, what do we do? Since no one else will, we're going to have to take control of this thing ourselves. We use what we've got. We are in the majority. Our most useful weapon is our sheer mass of numbers. After all, there are more of us than there are of them. Majority rules. When all else fails, the remedy has been called various things through history, taking to the streets, taking to the barricades, mass protest, mass uprising.
I lived in Washington DC for a time. There are many public areas: the mall, the parks, the circles, all the streets and public buildings. They are all free speech areas. We must occupy all of them, refuse to leave and raise holy-hell until Bush is gone. We just bring the whole goddamned place to a halt and shut it down, until we get what we want, instead of Bush getting what he wants. There are enough of us to do it. And, I don't see anything else that will. Our congress goes blithely along, sucking up to Bush, thinking that we're all under control out here in the boondocks. Well, I've got news for them, we're not under their control; they're under our control. You don't piss off 200 million people without some consequences.
George Bush has declared war on us by declaring war on our Constitution. When Japan attacked the U.S., one of their leaders said that they had awakened a sleeping giant. The mental pygmy, Bush, has been throwing rocks at the giant that built the greatest nation in the world. That's us. That's you and me. I have too much class to allow that. I have too much dignity to allow Bush to think he can fool me by assuming that I'm even stupider than he is--a patent impossibility.
Even in the unlikely event that we were to succeed, and even if we could frog march Bush out of the White House, he would still be here...somewhere. Being older than Bush, that's a very disheartening prospect to consider. I will, more than likely, never be able to look forward to the pleasure of someday living in a world without a George Bush in it, and I will never be content until that is so. Just think how sad it is to contemplate that, for the rest of my life, there will be a George Bush, lurking somewhere. One wants to weep.
The old Soviet regime falsely designated a dissident an enemy of the people. That was a dictatorship falsely assuming to speak for the people. George Bush is an enemy of the people. That is the people speaking for the people. I think they had better start listening to us, and quickly.
