Chickenhawk Soup for the American Soul

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Chickenhawk Soup for the American Soul.


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And what’s pathetic is that Congress, through no coincidence whatsoever, chose to present Bush with the war funding bill on the fourth anniversary of his now-infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech, thereby making a mockery of what he’d sincerely believed would be one of the highlights of his residency.

And now the judiciary committees of both houses of Congress are calling out his Attorney General and the Senate has issued subpoenas for Gonzales to turn over those missing emails that obviously shed more light on the political firings of eight and possibly nine US attorneys. The emails also finger chief strategist Karl Rove as being deeply involved. When you consider the political reasons for firing the Gonzales Eight, it’s kind of laughable to hear Bush and his chickenhawk chorus crying “Partisan politics!” every time Democrats point out some new perfidy and scandal.

Accusing politicians of either party of playing politics is like indicting a street walker for being sexually promiscuous. The Democratic Congress has uncovered Attorneygate, they’re demanding timelines for withdrawal and, before that, real progress in Iraq in exchange for the next hundred billion. Republicans have Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky.

Even if our side does play hardball partisan politics, at least they make it count for something.

King John unwittingly brought into being the Magna Carta, one of the many documents of antiquity now residing in wall-mounted strips in the Oval Office bathroom, when the English barons were afraid his royal highness would begin eyeing their fortunes in order to finance his endless wars with France. Of course, John had no intention of honoring a document that would put checks and balances on his power even though he was forced to sign it.

Bush is no better than King John with his endless, fruitless wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and, if he gets his way, Iran, Syria and even North Korea. It’s as if we’ve come full circle and suddenly find ourselves in need of a new Magna Carta, a new Constitution, a new Geneva Convention and a new Bill of Rights necessitated by Bush‘s regal high-handedness and neverending appeals for cash.

Since Congress still holds the keys to the safe if not the keys to the car that gets our men and women home from the Persian Gulf, it’ll be very satisfying to see them make chickenhawk soup out of Bush. It’ll be very good for the American soul to see the beginning of the “last throes” of this banana republican nightmare that we stubbornly refer to as a democracy.