You are soooo correct Gary Kamiya.

America does need therapy. What can we do to come to terms with our ambivalence about war?

"Yes, he lied about the war."

"Our young people are dying for our freedom"

"Iraq is worse off now than when Hussein was in power"

"I'll join the army because I can't find a job

and I can't afford an education."

"Let's all turn out for a parade in honor of

our returning heroes from Iraq"

"If we can't afford our family health insurance, let's

join the National Guard. It is unlikely that we would

have to leave home to fight."

"Buy the latest in cammo.....mini denims,

children and baby sizes too. Desert Storm lights

Iraq browns...honor our soldiers."

"Yes he lied about the war."

"Thirty-five hundred young Americans killed"

"Millions without health care"

"Billions and billions spent for the war."

It is impossible for me to turn decisively against w, because I was N-E-V-E-R for w! I saw through him from the "git-go" and have been wondering, ever since he was elected governor of Texas, what ANYONE sees in him and that certainly includes Laura. I feel to impeach him would simply complete the process of tearing apart this nation (which he has already begun so well)! The only part of "uniter" he ever exemplified was immediately following 9-11. Then, he went after the wrong man ("Why Saddam? that man tried to kill my daddy!"). The United States has been on a down-hill slide ever since. It will take a mighty intelligent and emotionally strong president to pull this country out of the quagmire Bush has left us in. God help us!

However, I must admit that should he be impeached, we would have two less years of his "mucking up", oops! I momentarily forgot that Cheney is next in line! Scratch that impeachment idea! Because the president can have anyone wiretapped, please just sign me,

The simple truth may prove to be that everything was conceived to secure an 8 year mandate. The obvious flaws of the person were known, so the probability of a one term presidency was real. It follows then that a pre emptive bundle of tactics have to be put in place to overcome the known vulnerabilities. Then, a war president is an obvious choice. Protected under the cloud of a war mythology, anyone could secure an indisputable mandate because the prime motive would be to unite behind the war leader whoever he was, notwithstanding any obvious limitations he or she has.

Thus, the real question is what are the real motivations of this presidency aside of securing its own permanence. The Irak war was not, and is not, the prime objective of this administration. This war has always been a means to something else, posibly a collection of goals and objectives that hasn't surfaced yet. And a very important PR achievement is that the real (or most plausible) bounty has not been publicly discussed.

The great tragedy is that the nation and the american people may have entered, and may sooner or later leave, a war that this generation will never fully understand and will never realize the real cost we'll have to pay for it.

I hope there is still time to deveal the cloud of war mythology shadowing the Irak war on the understanding that it has been a hoax that should never repeat itself in the future posibly by the present generation again.

The Kennedy presidency was charactarized by the musical and movie, "Camelot." The Bush administration seems to be based on a mixture of "Man of La Mancha" and "Animal House."

"Animal House" gives us the frat-boy nicknaming and cronyism. But the "War on Terror" provides the vehicle for a "glorious quest." The country answered the call to "march through Hell for a heavenly cause." Every word of "The Impossible Dream" resonates through the administration's worldview. And America bought into it.

But the majesty of the melody hides the reality that Don Quixote was half blind and completely mad.

9/11 turned the career underachiever into a heroic charactar. For a day or two, the public asked, "Why do they hate us so much?" By offering that the terrorists hate us for our freedoms, Bush saved America from facing our own sins, and the country is not ready to do that. Not until we, as a people, confront our own madness.

The world uses 80 million barrels of oil a day!! KBR Halliburton makes a good chunk of powerful people RICH!! No matter what shape this meatgrinder of a war leaves the Middle East (remember Iran is next!!) we will die-forward to control this oil!!! To get rid of Bush means to pull-out and leave this oil to ???? WARS ARE ONLY FOUGHT FOR GENOCIDE AND CONTROL OF RESOURCES. If people want a nonviolent revolution in this country, then it must come from our civil servants. They must walk off the job to stop the machine. Unfortunately, these wars reflect the importance of energy on our planet.

There's a very simple solution to the "Cheney problem."

The House can elect ANY of its members Speaker. So...

Pelosi steps aside temporarily and the House elects a Republican Speaker. Congress can then proceed to remove Bush and Cheney from office.

"The emotional force behind America's support for the Iraq war, the molten core of an angry, resentful patriotism, is still too hot for Congress, the media and even many Americans who oppose the war, to confront directly"

True, but the reasons are more subtle than mere abandonment of hyper-John Waynism. Rather, the "resentful patriotism" would have to confront the fact that it was "played" in order to barge into a sovereign state, in a pre-emptive war, and hence violated Principle VI of the Nuremberg conventions.

Principle VI was articulated in the wake of the Nurembergy war crimes trials, expressly to address Nazi Germany's pre-emptive invasions, such as the Sudetenland, and Poland in 1939. Not to mention Holland, France and other nations to follow.

Principle VI not only condemns the actual pre-emptive launching of war, but all planning, preparations to that end, which in the Bushites' case would also include their phony WMD shtick and the fake presentation by Powell before the UN.

The American people, at least those naive dopes that supported this Nazi-ish invasion and occupation, therefore are averse to impeaching Bush because they'd have to condemn themselves too as brash war criminals. As guilty under the Nuremberg conventions as the accomplices of Hitler when he went into Poland, France, Holland etc.

As guilty as the "good Germans" who looked the other way and remained silent when their (Jewish) neighbors were dragged off in hte middle of the night, and who knew damned well that the black, acrid smoke rising behind some of their towns wasn't from barbecues.

Rather than look at themselves in this harsh light, they do what Americans always do, take the easy way out - and blame everyone else for the mess. While they soak up "American Idol" or whatever the latest fantasy escape is.

Hopefully, one day the American people will come face to face with the fact they are among the most war-mongering terrorists in the world. And either directly or indirectly (including via their ignorance of deep politics) aided and abetted the ruination of nations from Iran in 1953 (when prime minister Mossadegh was overthrown) to Jacobo Arbenz ouster in Guatemala in 1954, leading to decades of internecine violence and slaughter, to Vietnam and Johnson's faked "Tonkin Gulf" incident, to Reagan's violation of the Boland Amendment to aid abet the terror against the Sandinistas in the 80s, to BushCo's occupation of Iraq.

There is blood all over the wall, and through the decades, and it belongs to Americans.