For years I have seen Joe Lieberman as a hapless character, someone completely without credibility, a foolish-looking nobody who would be perfect playing Uriah Heep on Broadway. He could even tour, like Hal Holbrook did as Mark Twain, and James Whitmore did as Will Rogers.

I think what is obvious here is that Lieberman is carrying water for the Israel ruling elite, which would love to have the "U.S." attack "Iran" as its proxy. Some are calling Lieberman a "right-winger," but I think "Jewish" identified paranoid is more accurate. His appearance on "Face the Nation" was something of a desperation move, hoping to generate some mojo for attacking "Iran."

It seems as though whatever happens in regard to "Iran," it is as if a matter of destiny. The key element is that the Bush regime is a purely criminal operation, and what takes place depends on what serves the regime's criminal ends most.

I do not mean this rhetorically. As a matter of 100% fact, the Bush regime is a criminal organization, more akin to the mythical Corleone family than any known political organization. The best way to deal with the Bush gang is to fool them, to double-cross them at the opportune time, just like was done to their former crony Saddam Hussein.

So the real question is this: who is in a position to double-cross the Bush crime family?

One thing to keep in mind is that the individuals - al-Marri, Jose Padilla, Salim Ahamed Hamdan, Omar Khadr - are almost incidental. What the Bush regime attempted was precedent for expansion of their police-state tactics to the wider domestic population.

Where "leftists" go wrong is to resort to the hackneyed epithet of "fascism." The Bush regime is "fascist" only as a means to an end. The end is total power and wealth for themselves. They are in essence criminal sociopaths. They would not like fascism so much if they were under its boot themselves.

The reason "leftists" are so reflexive about calling their opponents "fascists" is that they are pure ideologues, much more than "rightists" ever pretended to be. What is referred to as the "right wing" is actually a criminal element. The "ideology" is just window dressing for the easily fooled mob (Because of the level of literacy in "America" today, I must emphasize that by "mob" I don't mean the "mafia," but the masses of ignorant, stupid, emotionally weak individuals who are fair game for propaganda and rabble-rousing).

So if we want to deal effectively with the Bush regime, we had best start calling it what it is: a criminal operation, pure and simple. Most of the critical writing about the Bush regime is reflexively political, in the sense that it gives the regime legitimacy it doesn't deserve in order to argue debating points . This regime has no legitimacy, having stolen two elections (two major felonies), enabled the worst attacks on "American" soil in its entire history, lied the country into war, enabled the destruction of one of the world's great cities, and converted the "Justice" Department into a "fixed" legal system.

Don Corleone would be awed, had he been a real person. Though it could be argued whether George W. Bush is a real person, the harm he has done to the planet is very real. It is a testament to our own incompetence as a society that he is not in jail.