American Gadfly

Commentary, Critique, and Insight on Contemporary America

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Message to American War Mongers on Tax Day

Today is, for most American citizens who earn money, the day infamously known as Tax Day. The deadline by which we are supposed to file our income taxes with Uncle Sam.
On this occasion, I have a simple message to those ardent supporters of the war in Iraq - open up your checkbooks. Here is an opportunity for you to put your money where your mouth is. Stop complaining about the government and keep feeding the war machine you so enthusiastically support in words and votes.
Today, our federal budget for "defense" spending, or the military industrial complex, has ballooned to over $600 billion dollars.
The war machine needs your help, war mongers and corporate welfare dads. Stop looking for tax loopholes and weaseling out of your contribution to the war on terror. Open up your checkbooks so you can at least place money behind your cheap rhetoric.

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Bush: okay, okay, okay - now give me a chance!

Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. It has gone down as the greatest policy blunder in the history of the United States.
Yet, George W. Bush wants to hang on to his morass - extend the mistake further, so at least he won't be in the White House to face the weight of his errors.
How does George W. Bush and his remaining Republican stalwarts shore up support for a lost cause? By painting the opposition as "defeatists".
What Democrats and anyone opposed to George W. Bush's actions need to counter with is this - you, George W. Bush have been the defeatist. George W. Bush, through his gross incompetence as commander-in-chief, squandered over 4 years the opportunity to secure and stabilize Iraq. George W. Bush could have stood as a leader in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's fall and thought about securing the country and protecting its people from insurgents. Instead, he dropped the ball. His "presidential" response to the growing insurgency in July 2003 was the eloquent "bring 'em on."
Well, guess what, Mr. President, the insurgency in Iraq has brought it on, and your incompetence has encouraged and allowed that. The only defeatist in our government is George W. Bush - he is defeatist by nature, by his incompetence. For Bush to say now, after 4 years, that he really deserves a chance to do things right in Iraq, is laughable, to say the least.
Anyone hearing the term "defeatist" being used by Bush and his cronies should fight back and stick that term right on Bush's back, where it belongs.