Tuesday, April 03, 2007

What a Wonderful World?


Trees of green? Red roses too? For some perhaps, but not me and you. Like everything else in George W. Bush's "wonderful world," the trees of green, the red roses, the skies of blue, the stars of white, bright blessed days and the dark sacred nights are distributed unequally and unfairly.

More than 3,000 Americans are dead, and over 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians in a war that was absolutely unnecessary. We have accomplished nothing in Iraq other than to create a breeding ground for new terrorists. Meanwhile, we have allowed al Qa'ida to regain strength under the protection of our "ally" in the so-called war on terror, Pervez Musharraf.

Nuclear weapons have proliferated across the globe under Bush's watch. So, naturally, we are going tomanufacture more, newer nukes. You'd almost think that the Bush administration might have turned a blind eye to the spread of nukes, just so we could build new ones. After all, it was our "ally" Pervez Musharraf's man, AQ Khan, who shared nuclear secrets with both North Korea and Iran.

Sweat shop globalization has proceeded unabated under Bush. We have far more evidence of the spread of sweatshops in the last six years than the spread of Democracy. The gap between rich and poor nations, as well as the gap between the richest and poorest within individual nations -- including the United States -- has grown under Bush. For the first time in my lifetime, poverty is on the rise in the United States, both in proportion and number of Americans living below the poverty line.

Our reputation has sunk to unprecedented lows across the world. Our Constitution is in tatters. Our American values have been trampled at home. Politics trumps law. Democratic principles are becoming, like the Geneva Conventions, "quaint" and "obsolete."

Want a wonderful world?

IMPEACH BUSH!!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"After all, it was our "ally" Pervez Musharraf's man, AQ Khan, who shared nuclear secrets with both North Korea and Iran."

This part is news to me...where can I find more information on this part?

Peter K Fallon, Ph.D. said...

This is why this blog is called IN THE DARK.

Stories that are already in the public domain are not always in the public consciousness, because the US media do not sufficiently report them.

To learn about A.Q. Khan you might start at Wikipedia's article, and move on to Global Security's profile. To read something about Pakistan's nuclear black market, look at Seymour Hersh's article in The New Yorker.

There's actually a wealth of information on Khan out there. The "liberal" media just refuse to report it.

Anonymous said...

Thank you, Dr. Fallon, for elaborating more on this. It is definitely need-to-know news.

Peter K Fallon, Ph.D. said...

Thank you, "anonymous."

I agree.