Maybe It's the Drugs

Excuse me, I'm a little out of it, courtesy of a Vicodin taken to dull the pain of a pulled tooth but how is a man who has been in jail nearly three years completely incommunicado as is the wont of the Bush administration responsible for all the things the Shrub fucked up in Iraq? In his latest "mea non culpa", the Shrub is now blaming Saddam Hussein for the instability in Iraq. Maybe it's the drugs but wasn't Iraq stable before we broke it?

It was the latest Bush attempt to divert attention from the true cause of the problems in Iraq, Bush. Interestingly, it never occurs to him to look back at all the predictions of exactly what would happen, predictions that occurred without the advantage of the Administration's myopic, astigmatic hindsight. The administration underestimated the cost of the war, the number of troops that would be needed and the time it would take to stabilize Iraq. They underestimated the casualties, the oil revenue, the will of the Iraqi people to resist what they believe to be an occupation. They overestimated the welcome we'd be greeted with and the will of sects who have been feuding since the time of Muhammad to work together to unite a country. Like a drunk blaming its binge on anything but their own choices, the Bush administration continues to look for someone they can pin their dismal failure and incompetence on.

Meanwhile, Delay, accused of money laundering and conspiracy, is lauded by a Sugarland minister as a man God appointed to represent righteousness in Government, several of the ten commandments they want posted everywhere for us to see aside. Delay believes there's a war on Christianity going on. Wait a minute, isn't the majority of the nation Christian or has athiesim finally won out? It's not me, the agnostic, declaring war on the Christian faith, it's them declaring that I can't watch immoral (by their definition) television. I don't care where you post the Ten Commandments, what you teach your children, how you teach them, what you believe or how you choose to practice it, Christians, just grant me the same freedom. Since you have the more restrictive moral code, it's my values that win. You don't like TV? Turn it off or switch channels. You don't like a product? Vote with your dollars. You don't want your daughters using contraception? Live with their unwanted pregnancies. Just don't try to impose your moral code and your religion on me. I grew up in it and want no part of it.

If that's a war on Christianity, where's my sword? Besides, coming from Mr. Ethics (twice reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee before he got his buddy Hastert to gut it), any talk of morality, of being the Chosen One, of ethics rings hollow. Looks like a ploy for donations and votes to me, just like Tancredo's posturing against illegal aliens while they build the houses and mow the lawns for his Arapahoe County constituents. What I see in Delay's war against Christianity is a second-rate holy man trying to make a name for himself and a crooked politician trying to sanitize his image.

Meanwhile, his friend and contributor Abramoff got six years for fraud.