Friday, July 4, 2008

Happy Dependence Day

On today, July 4th, our Independence Day, I regretfully find our great nation not only dependent but addicted to the ebony elixir that has congested our once red veins with black. As gas prices across the country rise ever so slowly toward five dollars per gallon, we are shamed into submission by not only the Saudis and other oil-producing nations of the world but by our own elected leaders. If it weren't for the President's close friends whose abilities to mask his failures with patriotic smoke and mirrors, the White House would be nearly painted black with all of the oil left behind from the bottoms of our leaders' shoes. The blatant fact remains that our President prior to his election was not only governor of Texas, a state that holds over two-million oil pumps to her veins, but was a failed oil man in numerous companies. Our Vice-President was CEO of Haliburton which was granted first and unopposed rights to Iraq after its invasion, which happens to contain the world's second largest oil reserve beneath its sand. The man who is in charge of our country's energy policy still holds over half a million shares in the company he once ran. And Iraq, this administration's most public blunder, was invaded on false pretenses and the fact that two oil men ordered the hit on a country with no shortage of that black cocaine cannot be coincidence. Now their answer to our rising oil prices, which is due to peak oil (apparently mother nature has deemed oil a waning fad), is to drill domestically. If profits to this administration are not direct I am confident that lobbyists are filling in the financial void behind our backs. Either way, the criminality of this administration is beyond the obvious and I can only hope that our next will do well to mend the wounds opened by President Bush and his Vice-President Cheney. I highly doubt George Washington saw his presidency as a means for monetary exploits and profit. Have a happy 4th.

Monday, April 28, 2008

I Can't Believe I Have To Write This

Well, well, well. It has been almost a whole year since my last post. I have tried my best to stay out of the political arena and especially the one in Iraq. I couldn't imagine anything coming from my rants and raves but finally the straw has broke yet again and I am forced to write yet another article. Yesterday, it was revealed that thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police were on the payroll who were either dead, injured and thus off duty or ill and off duty. The Iraqi government is corrupt, I knew that, but this is just a blatant slap in the face for all Iraqis and Americans. The Iraqi government is trying to justify it by saying that the money is going to the families of the victims. Cry me an oasis. Not only is the country losing a lot of money (and yes, it has only just been recently mentioned in American government but there is still no oil revenue going to Iraq on the scale of it being the second largest natural oil reserve in the world) but neither the Iraqis nor the American and UN troops know just how many Iraqis are on duty at any given time at any given location. Great way to fight a war, I must say.
Also, the reconstruction effort in Iraq that has cost US taxpayers over $100 BILLION!!!, is coming up short once again in a scam for individual companies to make money. In a recent investigation by the US government, it was found that out of 47,321 contracts to rebuild Iraq, 855 were simply terminated due to hard conditions absolutely no one could possibly predict and out of those, 112 were recorded as completed. One of those contracts was to build a $50 million children's hospital which was only partially finished. I hope those kids over there don't scrape their knees too much playing in their bloody sandbox.
I won't even go into the race for president because its between John McCain (who has pledged to continue the incompetence plague that the Bush Administration has created and even said that we will be in Iraq for 100 years if necessary), Hillary Clinton (who doesn't seem to understand the people-person aspect of the job and only polarizes the country with her strong-woman-hear-me-roar speeches) and Obama (who can only get stressed and grouchy when everyone is questioning his race, religion, patriotism and yes, his name [Obama rhymes with Osama for all you stupid people out there who think they're the same]). I want to move to Canada.
This war is a joke, but sadly, the joke costs hundreds of lives with every chuckle. Iraq is a money train and everyone wants on from the Iraqi government to our own and everyone in between. Is it worth the cost in human lives and suffering anymore? Was it ever?