DON'T LET THEM PASS IT ON

The Bush administration’s strategy is clear to anyone who opens their eyes and ears. They plan to keep feeding our precious soldiers and treasure into the death and money pit of Iraq for the next 630 days so they can leave office in January, 2009, boasting they never wavered in the fight against terrorism.

That is an abominable crime that surpasses, in its cynicism and heartlessness, even the lies they told and the fear they spread to start their war of choice in the first place.

The surge, advertised by master propagandists to be small in scope and of short duration has morphed into a large an unending escalation. The slaughter of Iraqis and disintegration of their proud land has simply moved elsewhere, including a devastating bombing of the Iraqi Parliament in the vaunted Green Zone.

Meanwhile, American casualties are escalating along with the escalation of our immoral and criminal military enterprise. Our military is stretched to the breaking point.

Every decent, patriotic American should feel revulsion from this conduct and work to end it. Then we should demand an accounting of how such misfeasance and malfeasance in the Oval Office could occur. Those responsible should be punished as a warning to future rulers of the price for violating the sacred trust we place in them.

Don’t let them pass on resolution of their phony war to the next administration.

Originally published in Wheaton Leader, May 7, 2007
Also published in Glen Ellyn News, May 9, 2007
Also published in Glen Ellyn Sun, May 18, 2007