Well, well, well …

It is apparent the Iraqis aren’t too pleased with our brand of electoral process. We have been told that the election in Iraq was the quintessential process that served as a benchmark of success in the U.S. invasion of that nation. Today, we see hundreds of thousands of Iraqis demonstrating in the streets against that very process.

Apparently, it was rigged.

Welcome to the democratic process, Iraq.

We’re sort of used to it here in America. Do you really think the American people consistently narrow the field of candidates running for president down to just two rich guys?

Did you not notice how we carted Ambassador Alan Keyes away in handcuffs when several years ago this presidential candidate attempted to enter the building where the debates were being staged (er, um, I mean held) after he had been told he could not participate because some unelected and unknown committee had determined that only the two numnuts at the podiums were allowed?

I can certainly sympathize with the Shiite seculars (I didn’t know there was such a thing before today) who thought that they ought to have made more headway, given their predeliction toward compromising religious values for money and power. That is the American way! Surely, they should have received a larger share of power in the new government.

And the poor outcast Sunnis who protest continually against the American occupation of their country. They just missed the boat. When we started doling out the power and the positions, they abstained because they believed we had no authority to arbitrarily choose candidates based upon unknown criteria for the ballots.

Well, that just got them a “seat at the tail of the caravan” (to quote a famous Muslim philosopher).

It looks like the Bush administration just can’t buy a break. But it can certainly push its weight around. Let’s see how the Senate feels about the one month extension the House just offered, versus the six-month extension on the Patriot Act agreed upon in the Senate a couple of days ago.

I don’t know why those Senators insist on reading and discussing and debating the provisions of the Patriot Act. Aren’t they just supposed to sign into law whatever the president wants? I mean, the Democrats did it when FDR was president. And when the Republicans got testy, FDR simply threatened to influence the Supreme Court through bogus legislation that would remove old justices and place additional seats on the court … appointed by FDR of course.

Didn’t FDR set the precedent for dictatorial presidents?

Bush ought to grow a set and stop pretending he cares a wit about the law. We’ve already seen invasions, illegal elections, illegal spying, torture, secret prisons, etc. C’mon! We’ve gone this far. Let’s just threaten the Senate and force those folks to pass that daggone Patriot Act right now!

After all, if we are going to act like a dictatorship in foreign lands, why continue the facade here in our own country?

Posted on December 23rd, 2005 by admin
Filed under: America in the MidEast

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