Bush and Company have sure made a mess of things for Americans and the rest of us, too.  Popularity plummets, the headlines say!  And yet one-third of Americans approve of the job Dubya is doing.  Who are these dolts?

Fellow Americans Some of you have done some research, yet others are blinded by either faith or Fox news..The main 5 news outlets are owned by 5 people, all are obedient to the International criminals that have an agenda, some call them the Globalists or the Illuminati, yet they are real GOOGLE those names and read. The majority of Americans either don’t care or would rather watch American Idol, this society has been purposely dumbded down. It was covered in the book “the dumbing down of America”, finally some people are beginning to wake up because the public has the internet something they hate exposure . We need to form a united front and remain vigilant to the depth of this as it involves thousands of paid off or threatened people, or even illegally jailed ex: political prisoners. For any type of real change for beginners register to vote and vote using paper ballots for third and fourth party candidates. Ron Paul and Russ Feingold are exceptions.. A new political party will begin to break up the clubhouse exclusive in our two party system and truths will come out that will be embarrasing for many, yet “We the peopel” will be better off and the changes will end their control over the Millions of us..this man todd in california is a start from the green party. Please vote for change..and help our soldiers come home..

http://www.todd4senate.org/?q=front_page

He did ok with the bullhorn, but he didn’t convince ANYBODY in the flight suit.

We ask why a nation so abundant with fuel such as Iran needs nuclear plants and possibly nuclear arms?
A simple question, which if answered elusively will leave the grey area in which ghosts are created and fears are fueled.
The U.S. is not distinguished from most of the world by a tradition of empowering people to think independently, and it could be suggested that Americans favorite past-times are denial, justifying the near indefensible and hiding behind those believed to “know better”.
Polls only tell us about the tolerance level of the collective American conscience.
Most Americans must know in their hearts how with notable exceptions such as WWII, many U.S. involvements dating beyond the Spanish American war were not great humanitarian efforts but rather to serve U.S. interests.
The involvement in Iraq has clearly emerged as a pursuit of oil and to maintain a status quo for those with power in Washington., yet and considering daily hikes of oil prices in the U.S. it seems dumb-founding why a resourceful nation such as the U.S. is not sinking billions of dollars in to developing alternative energy rather than maintaining odd dealings with the nastiest of nations.
Having a remarkably furtive soil for ingenuity and living by example is what has made the U.S. great, and that is where our national pride and loyalties should lie.
It is vital to detail a background and remain vigilant on remnant historical aspects of U.S. entitlement and the implications of the Bush administrations hubris.
Still it demands a wider world-view to address the greater challenge to convincingly show the U.S. barking up the wrong tree while simultaneously screwing up its future.
Other than the unfathomable loss of lives and massive strain on the U.S. economy placed by the Iraq engagement, it continuously takes an enormous toll on U.S. leverage in the global arena.
The U.S. no longer bargains from a powerful position pared with near ten times the U.S. population in India and China.
Should we think that Chinese Prime Minister Hu Jintao goes to Washington only to discuss U.S.- China trade imbalances, or are we in all truth beginning to ask China to lend us a hand?
We could consider how China and India are improving their respective infrastructures with great dam projects, road building and education, while the U.S. struggles to maintain what is known as the American way of life.
Aware of an evolving China’s need for fuel, we may safely surmise that Iran is not threatening to fanatically dominate the world but much rather aim to protect their assets.
Analogous to the unfolding in Iran would be if the former Soviet Union had invaded a U.S. neighbor like Canada and the probability of the U.S. having armed itself to the teeth.
An eye for an eye approach in the middle-east has sufficient reference in the Israel Palestine conflict to dissuade such an approach, and American foreign policy has to be thoroughly reconsidered to meet changing global conditions.
As for an exit strategy, the U.S. cannot rise from the Iraqi engagement smelling like a rose, yet a path can be projected where involved parties may emerge with some dignity and we may have a chance to significantly advance humanity.
The U.S. now posses the shambles and must not only find ways to clean up the mess while pinching its nose and covering an embarrassed face, there must be an effort to look past the present to become a viable partner in a global desire to elevate living standards.
Even those of us who objected to the Iraqi invasion from the get go must not linger in would, could, or should haves, but rather recognize the situation at hand and become involved in how to salvage our future from the wreckage.
Nuclear arms in Iran are not part of a healthy solution and we should fear having stuck our heads in to a beehive with near five times as many Muslims in the world as there are Americans, however the U.S. world stance is what fans fanatical fractions.
To flex a nuclear muscle is indeed but a sign of weakness and rather than pushing a possibility of an attack if Iran pursues a nuclear defense strategy, we must offer incentives not to do so.
Regardless of being laden with the cloak of religious zeal, it may very well serve future American interests for Iran to stabilize a region where such a tragic mess is created.
We know that most of the population in Iran is under 30, highly aware of the Internet and a have wish to enter a more modern world. Flooding Iran with computers is one possible solution, and to ask China to rapidly manufacture masses of computers for the U.S. Army in exchange for a stake in future oil may be a way to spend American money wisely.
Iran’s quest for a nuclear future can be controlled, but as Iraq has shown us it can only be done in co-operation with other nations.
This is how world issues can and should be resolved, and the U.S. must take a leadership role in that approach instead of itself continually acting like a rogue bully.
In peace is how we should prosper, and none but the looniest of leaders can rationalize otherwise.

I was reading the constitution recently and was wondering if it’s constitutionally legal for Congress to initiate a recall election?

Since they’s too gutless and paid off by the special interests to impeach Bush and Cheney, maybe they’d have enough courage to let the American people do the job for them.

Let’s see, now . . . that would make who president then?

We finally have it all.  A government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.  The rest is irrelevant.  Profit is king.  We are the prey.

Scheer good : his followers , sort of mixed.
9/11 a conspiracy by the neo-cons ? Osama a computer generated fiction ? .
To believe so , in the face of multiple disinterested sources of evidence to the contrary , is delusional. It detracts from the other varied and interesting viewpoints in the ‘comments ‘

Yes Mr Canning.

#7552 is right.  Where is the outrage from college students, young adults, the people who will be most affected by Bush’s bravado?  Where are the voices from young artists, writers muscians demanding accountability?  Where is a newsman of Walter Cronkite’s stature concluding that the invasion of Iraq has been a disasterous mistake.  I fear Bush’s incompetence far more than another 911 attack because then as now our enemies had only to look at out President to see America’s weaknesses.

Aloha from Big Island Hawaii~~~Voting and the electronic “riggable” machines embedded by the GOP, must be abolished!  It’s been thoroughly studied, documented that the 2002, 2004, 2006 elections were rigged, electronically.  Even the GAO stated a yr. ago that in Ohio of 04, it was proven the votes were manipulated, yet do we hear anything of this in the corporate press?  To change anything in this country, we must be able to rely upon the fairness of our voting and the proper recording of our votes.  In Europe and other democracies, they use paper voting machines.  We, the People, must DEMAND that we have the choice for voting by paper or electronically.  We must begin this movement NOW! We Progressives become distracted by all of the madness surrounding,permeating every aspect of our lives, and easily become diverted from the basic facts of how we can effect positive change.  Voting is fundamental and that is where we must begin, if we are ever to rid our land of the demented, greedy Monsters who are in control.  Don’t blame the masses...they are too overwhelmed by working more than one job, low paying, without proper insurance, and come home, switch on the Corporate TV and attempt to become “informed” by their dirty lies, not having the sophistication, education, and ability to think critically...They are struggling with every ounce of energy they have to survive the credit card scams, imprisonment of massive debts, lured by drugs and rendered impotent from addictions.  We must have great Compassion for the masses!  The PNAC carefully orchestrates EVERY geopolitical decision, including the 9/ll fiasco tragedy!  So ignorant are we Americans, and immature, being a very young pseudo “democracy”,we believe our plastic, programmed leaders and the call for freedom, democracy, saying we are the freest of all the countries in the world, which is bull! GWB said that in order for him to succeed in his presidency (said to David Horowitz in 98) that he must start a war.  The people will stand behind a “war president”.  His words. Hopefully, we will wake up from our profound Denial, Impeach all the Monster Murderers, and try them just as we did Hitler’s monsters!  Divide and rule---we owe it to one another to attempt to educate anyone who will listen to the truth, and to do so in a coherant, unconfusing, direct way. People are hungry for the Truth, I’ve observed. They need to talk about what is happening.  We all have blood on our hands. We should all be wearing black arm bands to show our grief for all those who have died, or have lost parts of their bodies, or have cancer from the depleted uranium weapons...to show our Solidarity with the Innocents of Warmongering...Since we’re the largest arms dealers in the world, it’s in their interest to perpetuate the war machines. It’s very simple. Take care of yourselves...jf-hawaii

You would think some degree of rationality has found it’s way back to Washington, when reports about possible use of tactical nuclear weapons to stop Iran’s non-existent nuke programme were denied by the White House; but unfortunately that was nothing more than an illusion.

Normally, I don’t pay much attention to Simon Hersh’s articles. If we were to rely on his revelations and his inside ‘high-ranking sources’, the US special forces would have attacked Iran last summer through Afghanistan, and Israeli bomb-carrying dogs (read new generation of suicide bombers, no-one can stop the evolution) would have infiltrated Iranian underground nuclear plants.

But you can’t help not to get paranoid when George W. in his last press conference refused to rule out attacking another sovereign Muslim country, this time with nuclear weapons by keep repeating ‘all options are on the table’. It is, to say the least, ironic when a defiant America (this phrase has more relevance to the Bush administration at the moment, than to the Iranians) only 3 years after illegally attacking and occupying Iraq, keeps threatening a sovereign nation of 70 million with the most destructive weapons ever created by mankind; that alone constitutes violation of the UN Charter, if the neo-cons actually cared about international law.

It is really tragic that after the Iraq fiasco, some American people are so influenced by the media that they are actually ready to support another Republican misadventure, against another ‘Mid-East madman with weapons of mass-destruction’, because we think they might like to have plans to develop nuclear weapons! Lets forget the fact that Iran is three times the size of Iraq and has no history of aggression against it’s neighbours and has a 70 million population, so nationalistic to the point of being outright racist; these are just minor details that will be sorted out when we have ‘liberated’ the Iranian people from themselves and they have greeted us with open arms.

We have to congratulate the Bush administration; they have found an effective way to make people forget their mistakes in the Middle East: by making a bigger mistake each time.

This is what happens when two idiots are ‘elected’ as heads of states.

This is a wonderful column.  We may not be able to read it in the LA Times but it is nice to see that we will be able to read it in the new issue of The Nation at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060501/scheer0419

As someone who cancelled a subscription to the Los Angeles Times in protest for what they did to you, I must tell you that I was disappointed in the direction of your article in regards to Iran. The Seymour Hersh piece reveals that the administration is intent on the use of military force, including the use of tactical nuclear weapons.  During a 4/17/06 Democracy Now! interview, Col. Sam Gardiner asserted that the evidence is mounting that the decision to use military force against Iran has already been made and that covert military operations are already under way.  This isn’t pre-9/11 inactivity within the U.S. but a repeat of 2002 when there was a massive increase in US/UK bombing of Iraq which was carried out under DOD instructions that it be kept under the CNN line--actions that predated even the Congressional authorization.  Indeed, the Iranians claim that we have even gone so far as to shoot down their aircraft.  If recent history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot accept anything this lawless president tells us about the use of diplomacy.

OK, already ... some of us are being a wee bit TOO negative. The mood is changing. The tide is turning. People are speaking up.

We can take back the House of Representatives and quite possibly the US Senate for “we the people” ... that WILL make a difference. And now we ALL know WHAT a difference THAT will make!

If each day between now and the election, each one of us who believes we need to change course rather than “stay the course”, if we talk to one new person ... can be someone we know, a relative, or a stranger ... just express “We need to change course, big time” ... to one new person each day.

We can get our country back! We don’t have that far to go any more.

2006, the year of the people. Throw the bums out!

As can be easily seen by the daily, escalating oil prices, keeping the Iran/Iraq situation continuously mired in chaos / uncertainty, is PRECISELY what this corporacrat group of oil-execs (i.e. the Federal Government) has in mind.
When people say that the U.S. went to war “for the oil” in Iraq, what they fail to notice is: ‘controlling’ the oil supply is much more profitable when you prevent oil from coming to market, than when the oil actually is pumped, and shipped throughout the world.
To illustrate: can you even imagine what todays price of crude would be if the U.S ACTUALLY had lived up to it’s promises to restore the Iraqi oil production to pre-war levels?  How would that impact the some 70 Billion $ that Exxon/Mobil took in last quarter.
Think about it!! This is the game here, folks!

Pakistan is utterly beyond the means of the US to coax, cajole, or bully.  Thank Bush for NOT including Pakistan in his list of enemies.  Some reasons:

1) The country is largely beyond its own government’s capacity to control.  Pakistan is divided into jealous regions and language groups, united only by a common fear of India.  Musharaf must be delicate with fundamentalists and zealots.  There are tribal zones where the central government has only the most tenuous influence.

2) Pakistan has over 160 million people, most of whom have no love for the US.  Not even a WWII sized US force of 12 million could occupy or subdue the country. Iraq is a picnic by comparison.

3) The frontier with Afghanistan is very rugged.

4) An element of the Pakistani public is deeply hostile to the West.  There are also millions of expatriates who would not take kindly to a swaggering US assault on the country.

5) Pakistan already has nukes. 

In late 2002, had the US sent its own troops to Tora Bora, chances are Osama would have slipped over the Pak border anyway.  Hot pursuit by Infidels into Pakistan might have resulted in the fall of Musharaf and the imposition of fundamentalist rule in Islamabad.  India might have been compelled to take pre-emptive action. 

Get the picture?

After 9/11, W chose to invade Iraq, and not Iran or Pakistan, precisely because it was the weakest, had no nukes, had the easiest terrain to invade, plenty of oil, and was presumed to be inhabited by a secular middle class that would quickly rally around a Chalabi or pro-market, Israel-friendly type.  However, this last premise turned out to be totall false does not mean that it would have been better to confront Pakistan.  Neither was Saudi Arabia a good choice to bully.  US bases there were a principal greivance of radicals.  Iran may not yet have nukes, but is also just too big and difficult for the US to conquer and (the important part!) occupy.

Comment #7482 is right on the money. Where are the college students in all this? We protested Viet Nam and made changes occur. It wasn’t Congress then, it was our college protests. All we care about is Tom Cruise’s baby and whether it has hair or if it is named after some biblical character. This President must be impeached. He is a complete failure. As the protesters sign so aptly said: Somebody has to give Bush a BJ so we can impeach him. Oh, yes....give Iraq back to Sadam...he’s still the President there and wants the job back and then let’s get the hell out of their Civil War.

Mr Sheer,

Indeed you do a wonderful job of seeing this presidency for what it is, corrupt, incompetent, arrogant, simplistic, imperialistic, sadistic, war-mongering, I could go on and on, but you seem to still be under the impression that bush somehow did the right thing by invading Afghanistan and defeating the Taliban, and you may well be right. But if you do some further research even the events of 9/11 come into serious doubt as to who did what. May I suggest everyone take a look at what many impressive professors, engineers and investigators have shed some light on that may well change your mind as to the conclusions the so-called official story of that horrendous day.

http://www.911truestory.com/

After viewing the documents and videos on this site you may find that this administration is guilty of crimes far worse than what anyone would conceive beforehand.

Al Quaeda exists all right - as an idea, basically the idea of pan-Islamic nationalism. Bin Laden’s grand strategy is the formation of a pan-Islamic power block with most of the world’s remaining oil supply and nuclear weapons to guard them. He has played the Bush Administration like a violin and is succeeding beyond even his wildest dreams.

Such ideas - like Marxism, like Islam, like Christianity - exist more truly and are more powerful than any individual.

There is no doubt in my mind that Iran wants nuclear weapons to guard its oil, and that this is part of bin Laden’s grand strategy. To bin Laden the distinction between Sunni and Shia is not important - he seeks to unite all the Muslim people against U.S. imperialism. I’m sure bin Laden has plenty of contacts with Iran and Hezbollah. He may be a “Sunni”, but I think he is far too sophisticated to be sectarian.

Bin Laden doesn’t exist? Oh, he exists all right. I for one have read and re-read all his public communiques. They are disparaged by the Western media, but I think they are brilliant pieces of political writing, and they have the ring of authenticity for me. He is always precise, to the point, factual, and always does what he says he is going to do. As far as I am concerned, he speaks the truth. And, he’s winning.

Here is some historical information on the Iran’s nuclear program:
“Iranian nuclear research and development began in the 1950s under the Shah. In 1953 the CIA planned and executed a coup that deposed the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq. The United States placed the Shah in power, who ruled autocratically as a U.S.-alled ‘strongman’in the region. Beginning in the 1950s, the United States urged Iran to develop nuclear research facilities and provided it with technology and expertise. Consequently, Iran expanded its nuclear research and facilities rapidly in the 1970s. In 1974 the Shah declared that Iran would have nuclear weapons ‘without a doubt and sooner than one would think.’ In the late 1970s Iran, according to U.S. intelligence, had a clandestine program for the development of nuclear weapons. After the 1979 Iranian revolution that deposed the Shah, the new government under Ayatollah Khomeini put Iran’s nuclear research and development work on hold, ceasing construction on its major plants at Bushehr. Iran later relaunched its nuclear programs with the commencement of the Iraq-Iran War during which Iraq targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities, destroying the core of the Bushehr facilities in 1987 (CSIS, Iranian Nuclear Weapons?).” —Monthly Review (April, 2006)
Also from MR: “According to the influential London-based think thank, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Iran is at least ten years away from producing enough highly enriched uranium for a single nuclear bomb. Similarly the CIA,and the U.S. intelligence community in general, have estimated that it would take Iran ten years to build a bomb (’Iran Years from Nuclear Bomb,’ BBC News, Jan. 12/06; ‘Iran is Judged Ten Years from Nuclear Bomb’, Washington Post, Aug. 2/05)”

Robert’s first paragraph is sensational!  President Bush’s desire to be judged for his ability to keep us safe from rogue nations armed with weapons of mass destruction!  Oh my God!!

Through his actions, this president has created more danger for our nation than ever before in existence.  Granted, considering that the consequences of his actions has never been a strong point for him, it may be inadvertant.  He did not look before he leaped.  He did not think before he acted.

He has suceeded in winning the bitter, all prevailing hatred of most Arab nations.  Unfortunate but understandable.  Sooner or later, we the people, will be called upon to pay the price for his rash rush to war on an Arab nation that posed no threat to us.

What can we do as a nation of people to convince Arab nations that there will NOT be a repeat performance?  Get rid of Bush, Cheney and all who upheld his deceit!  The damage has been done, however.  I fear that America will never feel quite safe again.

Scheer’s essay didn’t mention another factor that comes into vital play with the hatred of our country by Arab nations.  It is the Israli connection.  But that’s another story for another time.  I hope Robert will see fit to delve into it soon.

Robert,
I’m suprised.  You obviously see through most of the Bush lies.  You don’t buy the deceptions about WMD, or PlameGate, or Katrina… etc (list too long to enumerate); yet you seem to take at face value the administrations claims about Osama, al-Queda, and the Iran nuclear threat.  Why?

We let the N. Koreans have it -now Iran is persuing it. The only weapon that will deter the US from attacking a country. Iran knows it and they are persuing it very fast.

Once they have it -they will be the new Middle East power holder and will press every country in the region and bring them to their likings.

What we are doing -talking and are stuck in the neighboring country.

Iran’s fundamental maniacs want US to attack them. They want war. This is their only chance, because once the US is out of Iraq(?), Iran knows that they will lose the war and US will be in a position to deal with them once and for all -just not in the state that our military is right now. Iran knows that very well. I bet anything that most of the trounble in Iraq is stirred by the mullahs in Iran. They keep us busy in Iraq while persuing their agenda of getting the bomb.

Jason Miller in World News Trust recently wrote about GWB:

“A Messiah complex, severely stunted emotional intelligence and profound ignorance are the defining characteristics of the man capable of making nuclear holocaust a reality within minutes.  In light of this, Osama bin Laden, box-cutters, and suicide bombers don’t seem quite so formidable or worrisome.”

But you already know all this if you’re reading this forum. Here, we’re preaching to the choir! I very much doubt this information is reaching the millions of Americans who voted TWICE for GWB as President. And what worries me even more is that even if it does reach them it won’t make any difference to how they vote next time.

America fusses and frets over “terrorists” attacking from abroad, insisting that even Canadians will be required to have passports by 2007 to enter the USA, while by far the GREATEST terrorist threat on the planet, resides on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Well, I guess there is only one thing left to say...TIME TO IMPEACH. CALL YOUR SENATORS.

Bob save US from the burning Bush.

Makings for a nuclear war:

1 insane Iranian President
1 insane American President
1 War monger prick US Vice President
1 Inept Rummy
1 Secretary of State with repititious talking points
2 nations of religious fanatics whom seek imperialism
1 stuck in the middle Jewish State

Stir gently while slowly pouring in a mountain of nuclear war heads.
Bring to a boil while stirring gently
Pour over open land and masses of innocent people
Bake until done.

What is really unfortunate about this continued fiasco is that the majority of Americans are Fat,Lazy, and stupid only carring about following where some celebrity shopped or had lunch at. I pity the poor smuck that inherits this mess.As bush says “the next president will have to deal with finishing the Iraq deal”.. My generation took to the streets and campuses across this country in the 60’s and 70’s and initiated change.This generation cares more about video games.Where are today’s college students ?. They should be outraged at the bleek future they are faced with thanks to the bushco/cheney regime.

Bob Scheer’s ability to encapsulate important events provides me with all I needed to know.  I used to go straight to the last page of the LA Times to read his column.  I don’t anymore - I cancelled my subscription.

Do you really expect anybody to take seriously your article, predicated as it is on the following;

“Nuclear experts, according to the New York Times,”

“George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.”
-Wesley Clark

“The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war! -George W”

Is what Mr. Scheer outlines for us the result of Cowboy Diplomacy?

Unfortunately, a kind of acceptance of arrogant behaviour pervades American culture. Dirty Harry, meet Vic Mackey. The beating and killing of “bad guys” is TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE in American culture.

George W. and others may feel that what they are doing is what “American Heros” would do. “Don’t apologize it’s a sign a weakness,” John Wayne tells us, before going off to kill “non-Americans” with morality precisely because they are non-Americans.

When one looks at the history of American foreign policy it turns out to be a history of colonialism backup up by a huge propaganda campaign to “sell us back home” the idea of their making the world safe for Democracy.

But I think what drives this President—and Cheney and many others—is abject fear. Fear of being perceived as not being “Heros,” of not being “strong,” of not being seen as the “red-blooded, all American hero” of field and court.

I think what really changed September the 11th was that Dick and George became afraid.

The administration has even less excuses regarding North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. But maybe that is not worthy of Robert Scheer’s attention; any smart reporter can write a convincing column on that…

This again proves the depths of ths loss to the reading and thinking public when the Los Angeles Times sacked Mr. Scheer in order to replace him with a cadre of untalented hacks and moronic Republican apologists.

Once again, Scheer applied his rapier-sharp analytical ability to penetrate the fog, and put it so well that one is moved to acclaim: “What he says.”

My wife and I can hardly wait to read his new book.

Thank you for telling it like it is. Hopefully every American will read this and finally come to their senses and boot these tyrants out of Washington. The only terrorists I have really feared are the ones sitting in the WhiteHouse. They have done more to strip the citizens of this country of their freedoms and civil rights than any international group of terrorists could ever do. Besides that, we as Americans have no friends left in the world , are dispised by all and take our lives in our hands just travelling anymore.
Keep up the good writing.

Yo Bob,

You forgot to mention how Iran is acting rationally in response to the invasion of Iraq by seeking nukes to protect itself.  I personally see only another round of Mutually Assured Destruction leading to nothing more than saber rattling and posturing by the principals and anguished hand wringing by the media.  But then, I’m an optimist........

April 19, Mr. Scheer, Another wonderful column.  Your no longer being with the LA Times is their loss.  A very serious question: why do not you as well as other honorable columnists bring up the Bush group’s involvement with 9/11, e.g. no military plane scrambling, the manner in which the towers fell, etc.  Certainly you are fully aware of this.  Is it so horrifying a subject to touch that almost no one will go near it?  Very sincerely, Carole Jones, Mountain View, Ca, 650-965-0934

As usual (frankly I don’t recall reading a single opinion piece of his that I disagreed with), Robert Scheer has it exactly right.  I hope the Democratic foreign policy strategists read his columns and consult with him.

I am sick and disgusted that our elected officials have not stopped Duh Furor from continuing his un-American path of destruction.  This administration - Dumya, Dick, and Rummy - MUST be impeached.  C’mon, people, let’s get our act together and formulate an exit strategy for Duh Furor’s administration NOW!  The Senate and House must act like Americans, not politicians, and select humane and intelligent people to lead and rebuild our country.  After seeing L.A. Mayor Villarigosa’s speech last night, I actually have hope for America.

Bush’s bluster and threats of military action have driven the price of crude oil sky high, resulting in high prices at the pump for all Americans. This guy has gutted our economy in his drive to cut taxes for the wealthy and enforce his will in the Middle East.
He took over a country with a record surplus, healthy economy, and relative peace, and in quick order took us to war, ruined the economy and ran up a record deficit while cutting taxes to the richest people in the country.
I can’t understand why anyone still believes in and supports this man.

It’s only a matter of time before Mush-ar-if is offed by some looney fundamentalist Muslim and Pakistan reverts to Talibanism.

This article is an excellent synthesis of our current foreign policy dilemna though it could be argued that Iran would be a tough case to deal with even if we had never gone near Iraq.  Fortunately, the difficulty of dealing with Iran militarily and our current quagmire in Iraq make precipitous, poorly-planned Bush style military adventures unlikely.  However, somewhere down the line we will probably have to confront a nuclear-armed and possibly irrational Iran. 

It is sad that the American public has taken so long to come around to Robert’s point of view.  Not too long ago, it was fashionable on Fox and among my conservative friends, to dismiss his political commentary out of hand as strident and irrelevant.  All along, I thought he has made good sense as the reality of our political and military situation in Iraq didn’t match government pronouncements.

One other point that might have been made in this article:  We need look no further than New Orleans to see how well the Bush Administration is protecting us from disasters.

America is in grave danger alright! It is not from any pretend threat from outside the country but from withing. This administration has just about ruined, if not completely, every single thing that once was good about the U.S.

This admin are the terrorists and need to be tried for not only their war crimes but every other dirty deed they think they have gotten away with!

Wiretapping not just suspected terrorists, untold tortures of prisoners, scare tactics to align the American people (no longer working), tax breaks for the top 2% richest Americans, hurricane victims barely assisted, yet millions, if not billions, being spent on a fortress-like compound which will be a self-sufficient and “hardened” domain, to function in the midst of Baghdad power outages, water shortages and continuing turmoil, but not for “regular” Iraqis who live outside the Green Zone as they are not privy to living there under that kind of protection are just a few among the myriad of other policies of this admin that are wrong-headed.

How can so many people have mistaken Bush, a life long weakling with zero accomplishments for a strong leader. Of course, the same people did the same thing with Reagan. Those who attack the weak are not strong, they are bullies. Those who accuse the poor of being morally inferior, are themselves morally inferior.

Taking advantage of others is not a sign of strength, it is definitive proof of weak moral character. Intolerance, selfishness, greed and hate are not marks of strong character, they are the opposite.

When will the Rabid Right learn that kindness is the greatest indicator of strength?

Unfortunately, the Clinton administration and previous U.S. regimes also dozed while North Korea, Pakistan and others developed nukes.

Now we have little choice but to learn to live with them. Of course, a more progressive approach would be to launch a new global effort through the U.N. to reduce nuclear arms worldwide, but that would be too sensible and thus is very unlikely.

All not so very well. A well researched essay from Scheer ought to give us the proof that Powell never presented anent the guilt of Osama. Though other terrorists have been tried and convicted in absentia, no one has ever attempted to prove that Osama had anything to do with nine eleven; indeed, no one has managed to prove to my satisfaction that he was even alive on nine eleven or was involved with Mo Atta in any way. There is in fact more proof that the Saudi royal family provided material support for the hijackers.

Come on Mr. Scheer, if there is a real al Qaeda (al qa’ida), and Osama is its head and is alive and well, do provide us with a few words about your sources if not their names.

It is my contention that John O’Neill invented al Qaeda so as to “put a face on” the enemy, who was after all a loosely connected bunch of “terrorist cells” who were getting money from bin Laden over a number of years. And it also seems that if there really were an al Qaeda that we’d be able to do better than Jose Padilla in grabbing off members of same. It follows that if al Qaeda didn’t exist, both sides would gain advantage from INVENTING it, the terrorists by creating a red herring, non-existent organization to send investigators on one wild goose chase after another, and the “coalition” by identifying an enemy who really is scary in the fact that he has no formal organization and hence no penetrable root structure. Indeed, one of the “splinter” groups run by someone (al-Zarqawi) who never was connected with bin Laden is claiming to be “al Qaeda” in Iraq today, when his group was always named something else until they joined the insurrectionists in Iraq. (he was said to be “affiliated” with al qaeda, like dozens of other terrorist groups who also had no connection with bin Laden save money)

Oh well, I guess Scheer has to keep his mouth shut to sell books.  He surely has turned into a pimp for the media whores since he got fired by the LA Times for telling the truth.

All I ask for is some proof that bin Laden is alive and was a year before the attack on nine eleven, and then some proof that he ever made one contact with Mo Atta. Otherwise, you are just part of the propaganda machine.

More red-state intelligence from an acknowledged C student.  Bush is the embodiment of the dumbing down of America and his father, whose wisdom on the Iraq issue was prescient, has been reportedly seen and heard less than those who claim Elvis sightings.

I seriously question the intellect of anyone who believes “W” and his scary cheerleaders have not unilaterally created a perilous situation in the middle east by this future Wal-Mart applicant.

Interesting, Robert Scheer and Tom Friedman (OpEd, NY Times, today, April 19) in chorus on Iran, telling us how inept the current Bush administration really is.

We’re hearing a crescendo of voices repeating the mantra ...

2006 is the year of the people.
Throw the Bums out!
2006 is the year of the people.
Throw the bums out!

Louder and louder ...

2006 is the year of the people.
Throw the bums out!

We now know what we ought to do. And we can get back on track, creating the isness demanded by our ethical sense of oughtness, expressed in our founding documents and our historic struggles to be free.

It is becoming a tidal wave of our sense of self, of who we choose to be, fully engaging the strengths of our ideals rather than cowering in our fears.

“Get behind us, Bush. You are in the way of our future.”

Why is what you say so clear to the average (educated) American, but so uninspiring to our do-nothing Congress?  The Bush administration really must be stopped *now*; I truly feel the conscience-driven members of Congress should find a way to entirely shut down the government until the nuclear weapons issue is “off the table”.

Bob,
Look forward to getting your newsletter every Wednesday. Suffice to say I won’t get much work done this morning.

Another nutty alliance W has maintained is that with Saudi Arabia, the leading exporter of “resistance” fighters in Iraq, according to Nir Rosen in The Boston Review. It is the very definition of “quagmire”.

As you pointed out our Dear Decider-Leaker-Leader affections various military jackets and flight suit appearances. He has now come forth in a role for which he needs no costume--That of a clown--the great Decider, but what used to be laughable is becoming grotesque.

I always look forward to reading your articles and have ordered your book.

The beauty of your writing is that you articulate your thoughts and understanding of the situation (Bush) so well.  If I only had that hard won gift and talent.

I can only say, keep it up.  The more voices in opposition to this pro-actively destructive administration, the better.

Please, keep it up!