Thou Shall Not Disagree

Now that Karl Rove has been cleared of an impending indictment in the Valerie Plame affair, Bush's brain is busy at work attacking all those who disagree with Bush's Iraq Policy. It seems he is now attacking John Kerry, John Murtha and Wesley Clark (all Democrats) as 'cut and run' Democrats.

I have a friend who tells me that I shouldn't criticize the Commander in Chief unless you served at some time in the military. I haven't. Hmmm, if non-Veterans cannot criticize the Commander in Chief, but a whiz kid nerd can attack the patriotism and the logic of an ex-Marine like Murtha, a combat veteran like Kerry and the former Supreme Commander of Nato, Wesley Clark, when he Rove, had better things to do when it was HIS time to serve in the military. Most conservatives don't see a problem in having Don Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney, two men who had their opportunities to serve their country, but 'had better things to do', then serve their country when they had the chance, but its okay for them to be architects of the neocon 'American Century' or Bush's 'Operation Avenge Daddy' in Iraq.

Even when currently serving members of the Armed Forces criticize the size of the deployment or the quality of the armor are not immune from GOP vindictiveness. Think of the former head of the Army, (I think his name was White) or the General who criticized the size of the 160K man attack force. Both summarily dismissed.

This is standard faire for the Bush White House. The 'Swift Boating' of John Kerry, the personal attacks on John McCain during the South Carolina primary during the 2000 campaign. And yet, just a few weeks ago, the ethically challenged Tom DeLay whined about the 'politics of personal destruction'. Nothing new there. They used it against both Bill and Hillary Clinton during Bill's eight years in the White House.

Now, along comes the GOP's Blonde Bimbo, Ann Coulter who claims that the widows of 911 are glad that they lost their husbands during the attacks because it made them millionaires. How crude. How trashy. How slutty. As slutty as her outfit on the Today Show. Coulter wouldn't give a shit had not some of those widows not supported John Kerry in 2004. Had they been all Bush supporters, she would have called these women 'victims'.

Coulter also claims that these women use their 'celebrity' to make a political statement, as if that was somehow wrong. Had these women made statements in favor of the Administration, there would be no problem. Their husbands would have been considered 'heroes' for being at the wrong place at the wrong time, but even those women whose sons are killed in battle, like Cindy Sheehan, and criticize the regime are condemned.

Where would George Bush and Ann Coulter be today had it not been for September 11? The attacks gave Bush what he wanted the most and what he has been dreaming about all his life -- a virtual blank check and nearly limitless power. He got his Daddy's Revenge by going abter pop's nemesis in Iraq, as we all wait for the Iraqis to welcome us with open arms. Unlike, Daddy, he was deprived of a 100 hour war. He got a blank check to finance it, as we wait for Iraqi oil to finance the war, and not the American taxpayer. Fifty billion, 100 billion, 200 billion, now 400 billion dollars later. And he made sure that the Donald Trumps of the coumtry don't pay much for the war or anything else for that matter.

And where would Ann Coulter be without 911? The attacks gave her a blank check to attack any critic of the far right and she certainly profited handsomely from all her anti-moderate and anti-left bilge that she publishes and gets free publicity thanks to the likes of Fox News and Bill O'reilly. With book titles such as "How To Talk To A Liberal. (If You Must)" go along way to explain why political discourse in this country has sunk to new levels. Even while the far right whines about the 'liberal' media and a lack of attention to conservatives, they conveniently forget that 'liberal' Time Magazine had put Bimbo Coulter on its cover a few months ago.

It has been said that with the death of Abu Al Zarqawi that Al Qeida in Iraq will resort to more violence to show that and that the insurgency is really on its last legs. Like the insurgency and Al Qeida, the Far Right seems to be acting more and more desperate as time goes on, the crude and insulting comments of Coulter, the revisionist history that O'Reilly is pushing and the rush to push for the right wing's last gasp agenda like more Wealthfare tax cuts and the divisive (doomed, but lets play it up for the cameras) Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage show how desperate the right (er, wrong0 wing is getting. But Congress gave itself a raise. They also tucked a raise in the minimum wage as a rider for another bill, but it is all but certain not to get voted on.

But the biggest insult of all to the troops serving in Iraq is the fact that the new Prime Minister there is talking about granting amnesty to insurgents who kill American troops, (now over 2,500) and Bush is okay with that. The same Republican Party would be loathe to grant amnesty to an illegal alien in this country, but Bush is okay with the ltaking of the life of an Ameican soldier.

I am disgusted. And if your not, you haven't been paying attention.