In spite of all the Bush bashing I’ve done, I’ve now recognized the problem is not George W. Bush or Dick Cheney or Condoleezza Rice or Paul Wolfowitz or Alberto Gonzalez or any of the rest.
The problem is Congress and other institutions of government who, when looking these beady-eyed people in the face on a daily basis, don’t see what a dumb bunny could easily see. And it’s the people who still drive around in their Hummer H-2s and BMWs with their “W. The President” Bumper stickers who don’t see what a blind mouse could easily see.
Forgiving my insult to dumb bunnies and blind mice, our system of government has failed to check and balance this president and his administration. And our citizens have failed to check and balance this president and his administration.
Please read the following comments of Mr. Carl Bernstein, the famed Watergate reporter who once called Nixon the most dangerous president ever: “In the case of George W. Bush, the American system has obviously failed – tragically… imagine the difference in our worldview today, had the institutions – particularly of government – done their job to insure that a mendacious and dangerous president … be restrained in a war that has killed thousands of American soldiers, brought turmoil to the lives of millions, and constrained the goodwill towards the United States in much of the world.
“In the current administration we have seen from the President down (especially Vice President Cheney, Attorney General Gonzales, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld) a willingness to ignore the great constitutional history of the United States – to suspend, really, the many of the constitutional guarantees that have made us a nation apart, with real freedoms unknown elsewhere, unrestricted by short-term political objectives of our leaders.
“Then there are the Geneva conventions: Who would have dreamed that, in our lifetime, our leaders would permit their flagrant abuse, would authorize torture, ‘renditions’ to foreign torture chambers, suspension of habeas corpus, illegal surveillance of our own citizens …
“But perhaps worst has been the lying and mendacity of the president and his men and women in the reasons they cited for going to war, their conduct of the war, their attempts to smear their political opponents.
“Nixon and his men lied and abused the constitution to horrible effect, but they were stopped. The Bush Administration – especially its top officials named above and others familiar to most Americans – was not stopped, and has done far greater damage. As a (Republican) bumper-sticker of the day proclaimed, ‘Nobody died at Watergate.’ If only we could say that about the era of George W. Bush, and that our elected representatives in Congress and our judiciary had been courageous enough to do their duty and hold the President and his aides accountable.”
We, the people of the
According to a BBC poll, almost three-quarters of people in 25 countries
oppose the war in
Bush and his cronies have ended the nearly universal support we enjoyed after 9/11. We are now more loathed and feared than Osama bin Laden himself!
More than that, the poll shows that citizens of the world view us as hypocrites, because on the one hand we champion a set of principles but on the other we violate them every day.
Bush and company want to send more troops to
Calling all American citizens – it is past time to rise up! Rise up and stop this. The checks and balances that stopped Nixon must
work again to show the world that the ideal of
Dumb bunnies and blind mice want to know: If we cannot even stop a dictator at home, how can we stop one abroad?