Thursday’s political round-up

Call me morally confused, but I still don’t quite know what “the president’s vision of democracy” is. If Mr. Bush has more clearly articulated such a vision to Condi, he certainly needs to make a better attempt in his efforts to bring the rest of us on board. So far as I can tell, Mr. Bush is operating under the delusion that he must destroy democracy in order to save it! Or, is it a trade off: we give Iraqis a Saddamless Iraq, and we take all the oil profits, and somehow Western democracy will flourish in a region of the world where such a form of democracy is foreign and being forced upon it.

Anyone with a bit of knowledge knows that the Koran provides for a form of democracy within the cultural context of Islam. When our policy makers realize that otherness needs not be destroyed but more attention should be paid to our own sense of democratic values, then maybe the rest of the world will be willing to listen to us before our leaders deem a pre-emptive strike must take place.

Finally, Mr. Bush’s foreign policy of “pre-emptive war” is tantamount to what the Nuremburg decisions called “aggressive war.” Yes, I am an American who believes our president has committed war crimes under the banner of his foreign policy. Before anyone attacks me for my freedom of speech, I should caution you that I am a Republican of more than 25 years.

In my “moral confusion” I thought that we as Americans should not only talk the talk of individual rights and due process and all the other Constitutional rights we enjoy, but we should also walk the walk so the rest of the world can see us in all our glory. There has been no glory in Abu Gareib, Gitmo, Rovean shenanigans, or the abyssmal display of campaign tacts that work to connote if your opinion differs from the president’s you aren’t quite American enough to hold political office. What Balderdash!

Vote the Rascals Out in ’06 and ’08! -Kevo