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JERRY TENUTO
And there are many times when he can't even get that right.

Several months ago, when he made an early attempt at an "impromptu" question and answer session with one of his handpicked audiences, someone actually queried him on how many Iraqis had been killed since the (illegal) invasion. King George did his usual slovenly, non-presidential lean on the podium, complete with rolling of the eyes as if to come up with a good response, then casually stated, "Oh, about thirty thousand, I guess."

I'm taking the liberty of paraphrasing here, but I distinctly remember the number, because worldwide media sources were estimating well above 100,000 by then. And I shall never forget his cavalier, "so what" attitude as he threw the figure out.

The man didn't blink an eye while making this comment, on camera worldwide, that he had set in motion events which had cost the lives of some 30,000 innocent children, women and men - human beings. Worse, he knew it was a bogus response, at lease 70% short of reality.

They simply are not real to him. Nobody who dies on his watch is real to him, or deserving of his consideration.

The first three days of this week King George XLIII has made three appearances to convince America and the World that not only is the war in Iraq a just war, but the U.S. and its dwindling coalition will be victorious.

Everyone knows in war there are no victors.

That's virtually all the guy talks about in public anymore - Iraq.

Except when he's trying to convince Congress it's a perfectly sound policy to allow "guest workers" in so his Big Biz cronies, already reaping huge profits from outsourcing cheap labor, can circumvent unions by hiring cheap labor right here at home.

That way the Bush Pioneers can make money coming and going while they enjoy their hefty tax breaks - and American workers are forced to settle for lower wages and longer hours.

Forget everything else that we need taken care of within our Nation's borders.

And he expects the largest chunk of our tax dollars to go to military spending, tossing it away on Rummy's Follies in Afghanistan and Iraq.

I do not want the largest portion of my tax dollars to go to military spending; to be wasted on death and destruction in foreign nations; to disrupt the legitimate governments whom the RoveBush Fascists don't like; to be usurped for regime change, which is against American law.

Okay, so we invaded Iraq to stop Saddam from launching any of his weapons of mass destruction.

Wait" it was because he had aided and abetted Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda pull off the 9/11 attacks.

No" we bomber Iraq back into the Stone Age because Saddam was trying to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger.

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An erstwhile Philosopher and sometime Educator, Jerry Tenuto is a veteran of seven years service in the U.S. Army. He holds a BS and MA in Broadcast Communications from Southern (more...)
 
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