Hypocrisy

How many soldiers died to establish Sharia law in Afghanistan? That outrages me and that's the war I supported. This country is holding a man on a death penalty offense. His crime? Being a Christian....

Wait, aren't we holding men indefinitely without trial or access to counsel because they're Moslem, they either had a Casio watch, wore olive green clothing, were somewhere near a battle or someone sold them to us for bounty? How can the Hypocrite in Chief ask the Afghanis to release this man when we're holding their citizens without even charging them with a crime? Regardless of how offensive the crime is to us, the man is getting a trial. That's more than we can say for the captives we're holding at Guantanamo. So far as we know, the man isn't being tortured, as were Moslem prisoners rendered to other countries. He has the right to counsel, a right denied to U. S. citizens accused of crimes against the state.

In short, even though we may find the crime Mr. Rahman is accused of ridiculous, he is being treated as the law of the land requires. We are not doing the same for our prisoners, detainees, whatever you call them.

Also of interest is one who brooks no dissent, who refers to those of a different opinion as traitors, who ran as a uniter then proceeded to marginalize the other party calling for a unity government in Iraq. The Hypocrite in Chief has never consulted with opposition lawmakers, instead has pursued a policy that dictates the slimmest of majorities can ignore the remainder and do whatever it wishes. To tell the Shiites, the vast majority in Iraq's parliament, that they must share power with the slim minority Sunnis is not only hypocritical, it is asking the impossible. And where are the Kurds? Ready to declare a free and independent Kurdistan? Is that the criterion we're waiting for before we call the deaths of fifty Iraqis per day at Iraqi hands a civil war?

Bush's policies have failed because Bush is a failure. He, his cabinet and the Republican majority in Congress are fanatics, men who fail to allow mere facts to sway their beliefs. They're in denial, their policies aren't working, their grand scheme of the American century is crumbling under the harsh reality that just because you say it's so doesn't mean it is. Democrats would do well to sieze the opportunity and at every chance distance themselves from the Shrub and his forest, to present a vision of an America once again respected in the world. Americans are not hypocrites, our government is.