Iraq Study Group? How about Detention...

"Way forward. A new way forward. The way forward to Victory. Victory. Can't have defeat, must have victory." The image of George W. walking the White House halls alone in the middle of the night babbling his inane drivel to the paintings of dead preseidents is almost too much to bear. The Fuehrer is in his bunker and the Red Army is at the Brandenberg Gate. As Bush waits to deliver his "way forward" until after the New Year - maybe Santa will put the plan in his Christmas stocking - he sends more brave Americans to die into the hell pit he created. "Legacy, gotta save my legacy. I'll be dead, up in heaven with the lord, but I'll be vindicated!" Since it's clear that Baker's Dozen hasn't come up with a strategy the Fuehrer approves of, he's going shopping for that 2nd, 3rd, 4th, opinion. At least until he finds one that'll agree with him. That however is going to be a problem as the yes men are growing fewer and farther away. The neocons have deserted him, Wolfowitz is at the world bank, Bremmer's vanished, Tennet's vaporized, Franks' blitzed, Rhummy's kaput, Cheney is sidelined, Moma Karen Hughs is silent, Condi is all he has left - but no one is listening to her any way.

The pictures of Hitler sending the Children's brigade off to the Russian front becomes a more and more obvious comparison to what we're seeing now in the White House. The reports are coming out fast and furious that he now wants to send more troops. More troops, more lives, more violence, more madness. A new way forward. indeed. Because of this maniac the world is at a cross roads unimaginable just 6 years ago. Because of Bush, his mirror image is now in Iran and busy developing nukes of his own. Lebanon is facing civil war - again. And, Afghanistan is falling back to the Taliban and opium with every day. We won't even begin to talk about Pakistan. With a holocaust denial conference in full flower in Tehran, not to mention more speeches about Israel's imminent destruction, the Israelis' trigger fingers are getting itchy. If those planes fly, that's all folks. While the worse-case scenarios had this playing out in the first phases of the Iraq war, it now looks like it just took some time to germinate. I guarantee the results will not look or smell pretty.

Time is the one thing we are now officially out of. While Bush holds out the vain hope that some new plan or miracle will bring some truth to Mission Accomplished, events on the ground are far out-pacing his ability to control them. We are at the mercy of forces that are 1000's of years old, in a political and religious culture he doesn't understand, and we are facing a violence that was simply never part of his plan for "victory".

The way forward for us, as stated in the last post, is one way only - impeachment. He and his whole adminstration must be purged as quickly as possible. Brent Budowsky in The Huffington Post has called for a new POTUS initiative - bring back ALL the former Presidents to create a bipartisan Uber Executive Task force to take over the Executive branch for the remainder of this term. Working in concert with the new congress, all the former Presidents - with their skill, knowledge, and experience - not to mention diplomatic skills (think about it, all the ex-POTUS alive today are superb diplomats - Bush Pere included). We need a sure hand on the rudder of state and I for one can't think of a better solution. We face an unparralled crisis in the world right now and must embrace new possibilities and a new realism if we are going to get through it successfully. Time is not on our side - nor is the maniac roaming the halls of the White House.

Smells Like Victory?

It's been awhile since the Hippo's been tapping the keys and so much has happened since the election! Frank Rich, Keith Olbermann, Paul Krugman, and Matt Lauer(!?!) have been doing an outstanding job keeping us all informed that there just wasn't much to add...

Rhummy Von Doom has gone the way of all spectacular failures, to the ash heap of history - without even a whimper. Truly has any ending ever been more anti-climatic? Of course, you could see it coming when before the election the Last Crusader steadfastly asserted that RVD would be there to the end. Should've seen it coming - a perfectly executed "Heckuva Job Brownie" Judas Kiss. Given the death, destruction, and diminishment incurred by this man's incompetence and stubborn refusal to be guided by "facts" the only thing left for The Last Crusader to do is give him the Medal of Freedom and be done with it - (or maybe remove Wolfowitz at the World Bank and let RVD have a shot - would certainly cement his status as the 21st Century MacNamarra...) Pity we spared a bullet...

So at long last Baker's Dozen has released their findings. Guess what? Invading Iraq was a mistake. Has ever so many people waited so long for so little? Really if the Democrats have been basing their Iraq strategy on what this bunch of old Caucasians (sorry Vernon Jordan) cobbled together, then they're on as safe ground as John Kerry without a script. Yes, they called the baby ugly, and they used the F word - as in failure. But there were no firm demands for retrenchment. No timelines. In fact this report had as much teeth as Sandra Day O'Connor. Of course, the more attention paid to the report the more angry Chicken George becomes. The melt-down is now palpable. The words keep falling from those twitching lips, the fingers snap, the sweat builds, the eyes open, but the magician can't make the body disappear anymore and the audience is getting restless. Victory indeed.

While everyone with sense and an understanding of history has been shouting this truth to the heavens for years, the rest of the country is coming to terms with the fact that labels such as the worst president in history, stupid, incompetent, moron, etc., - pale before the awful truth. George W Bush is responsible for the worst global catastrophe since Hitler. The parallels are stunning - an aimless, ignorant, incurious, reactionary cipher guided by a fanatical belief in his own destiny combined with a messianic mission from god to be accomplished by force of arms and we have a stunning re-occurrence. Add nuclear arms, oil, and Islamic fundamentalism and we now have a situation that could make the slaughter of the 1930's seem like a garden party. George W. Bush single-handedly ended the American Century at the exact moment it seemed ready to go on forever. And now, even he knows it. And that is the scariest thing of all - this man has his hands on the button. What visions of gotterdammerung are running through his diseased mind as the end looms large?

The time has come for the other branches of government to take control as the founding fathers intended. We are facing a catastrophe unparalleled in our short history and so need to take drastic action. This man needs to be removed from power by whatever means available. The bottom line is that victory in any form is no longer possible in Iraq or for that matter, Afghanistan. The time has come for us to take matters in hand and force our representatives to keep us safe from the only threat that really matters right now - George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Alberto Gonzalez, Michael Chertoff, and the whole horrific lot of them. Write your congressman - demand impeachment! We must act now or we're all complicit on what happens next...