Depressing myself.

As always, there is something interesting to be found in the news. The stock market is recovering. Kenneth Foster is going to be put to death in Texas in a week for a murder he didn’t commit. He was sitting a hundred feet away in a car when his friend, who was put to death last year, committed the crime. Karl Rove has quit and the king rat could make off with a fortune if he gives up the dirt on the inner-goings of the team he put in power.

What perfect justice that would be, if Rove came back to bite Bush in the ass with a tell-all book. When you find someone who will get you elected President when you aren’t even equipped with enough intelligence to construct a sensible sentence, you shouldn’t trust that person to cover your back. Yet, if you weren’t so dumb that you needed them to run over all lawfulness to get you elected, you probably would have considered that.

The great lesson of the departure of Karl Rove is how inconsequential he has become. Who pulls the lunatic strings in Washington we may never know. If Bush has a brain, I don’t think Turd Blossom makes up even half of it. All I know is that high up on the list of items on Google News today is that our United States Government “may brand elite Iran guards terrorists.” Wow. This reminds me of a few years ago when we were watching the legitimization of preemptive war right here at home on every news channel.

The last few years have seen some magnificent new precedents set by this our faithfully dangerous government. We can begin with the Patriot Act, which allows the elimination of individual liberties which were given us by the authors of the Constitution. We can move on to the preemptive invasion of a sovereign country which had never attacked us. Here is the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of a regime there which has sent the country into a spiral of dysfunction and violence, and drawn radicals from around the world like magnets to a hatred of the USA and our American way.

Now we want to label another countries army a “terrorist group.” Here is a nice precedent to set just because we want an excuse to start bombing sites in Iran and sending Special Forces Units in to shoot up the place. The lighter side of the situation is that it might be the beginning of what will eventually force us to start behaving ourselves. What our great and imperial leaders consistently fail to consider is that we are a country as well, and our activities are becoming more and more blatantly terrorist in nature. “Shock and Awe,” for example, may not have been the best name for bombing the hell out of Baghdad. Shocking and awing is what terrorists do. It would have been just as appropriate a name for Al Qaeda’s attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, except we probably killed more people and did a whole lot more damage to Iraq’s biggest city than Al Qaeda did to ours.

At some point we have to consider the consequences of our actions. We act like we can do whatever we want. On CNN yesterday they asked the question: “what can be done to keep America from going the way of the Roman Empire?” Most of the answers that came in were in surprising agreement that we aren’t really number 1 anyway, and if we are, we aren’t doing much to help ourselves stay there. Most of the people who responded seemed quite dissatisfied with our Governments actions. But we the people are responsible for our Governments actions. Just like the people of Iraq paid a huge price for the fact that our President was obsessed with toppling the leader of their country, we may eventually be forced to pay for the consequences of our governments’ actions. When the bombs start going off in our streets we have to be ready to take responsibility for why. If we don’t care enough to stop our Country from doing wrong, then we are subject to the consequences.

Even though the United Nations is our little baby, we have to understand that at some point, if we keep acting like we’ve been acting, it is going be our army that is labeled “terrorist.” When a multi-national force comes to put a stop to United States war crimes, it’s going to be ugly. If we the people keep paying the bills and allowing our armies to do whatever they are told by a Government gone awry, we are complicit. When the bombs come home, we are going to regret not standing up for decency and righteousness in foreign policy. It’s time we look in the mirror and take a peak at the terrorist staring back at us.

Turd Blossom is walking away from the White House, the stock market has been hammered and is coming around, we are about to kill another innocent black man sitting wrongfully on death row, we are setting things up to attack another country in the Middle East. I’m heading to town for a cup of coffee, plus tax.