In Iraq it was the minority Sunni Baath party that lorded over majority Shiites for decades. Here it's been GOP Baathists pushing everyone around. (Don't get me wrong, I'm not accusing Democrats of being Shiites. No. That would be an uncalled for  slur on Iraq's Shiites.)

 But the Republicans are demonstrably America's Baathists.  And it's becoming increasingly clear that the majority of Americans are on to them, fed up with their corruption, incompetence, brutality and near-total disregard for the rights, needs and well-being of their own citizens.

So I say, enough of all this bi-partisan bullshit. I don't know about you but I've seen very little evidence that Democrats can play that game. They keep showing up for each match only to forfeit the game. Then they retreat to the locker room to whine to reporters that the other side cheats and fights dirty. Clearly we are going to have to clear the field of play for Democrats before they'll play.

But what if we really do de-Baathify America by canning all GOP candidates? Then what, you ask. We'd be stuck with those perennial losers, the Democrats. The wimps who allowed – hell, even aided and abetted – the GOP-Baathist's 8-year reign of murder and malfeasance.

Yep, that's true. But look at it this way: would a wimp have invaded Iraq? Not a chance.

So right there we'd already be half a trillion dollars and who knows how many lives, ahead. After all we now know what we get with testosterone-poisoned, super-macho, chicken-hawk GOP-Baathists. I don't know about you, but I long for some wimpish rulers. You remember,  the kind of leaders who, rather than curling up every night with Janes Defense Weekly, actually stay up nights pouring over studies on things like public health, national infrastructure and the environment.  You know, policy wonks, nerds, wimps, Democrats.

So let the purge begin. Sweep the GOP-Baathists into the trash heap of history where they can join their predecessors; the fascists, communists and Iraqi Baathist leaders. And if the GOP-Baathists really want to catch up with  al-Qaeda leaders, they will only have a short wait before the Islamo-fascists land on the same trash heap with them.

Though we did pick up some handy tips during our de-Baathication of Iraq; like the importance weighing  a perp in order to calculate how much air to leave beneath his trap door.

Of course we Americans don't hang our  deposed/disgraced leaders --- though we occasionally encourage other nations to do so. And, as tempting as it suggest we make an exception in this particular case, I will not.