The Bush 'Solution': Rewrite the Rules If You Don't Like 'Em

Po' "Dubya" wants to make up the rules as he goes along. If he doesn't get to, he might just take his ball and go home. What these dummies never seem to think of is that the same argument could be made about the Constitution. Are we to rewrite the Constitution just because the founding fathers didn't anticipate Bush's definition of war?

Of course, Bush didn't think of this when Karl Rove and Karen Hughes decided that calling terrorism a "war" made for good media and politics at home. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were crimes not war, from the begining. Why give a rag tag band of criminals like al Qadea the status of elevating their actions to war? Nobody called it "war" when Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building. The media and the Bush crowd just had to 'Wag the Dog'. With Clinton and Condit gone they just had to have something sexy to fill up all those news shows. So "America At War" fills the TV screens for months. But, war implies that prisoners of that war be POW's.

I seem to remember Poppy Bush having the same POW problem with Noreiga. The fact is that the Bush people want to use rhetoric in ways that they feel are politically beneficial without giving any thought to the consequences. Note the childlike, religious fundamentalist simplicity of calling anybody you dislike "evil" without regard to the consequences. Then later when their rhetoric becomes a problem they want to rewrite the rules. America needs to be run by adults not children.

It was said that Bush surounded himself with wise men to make up for his lack of competence, but as Machiavelli said in The Prince:

"And if there are some who think that a prince who conveys an impression of his wisdom is not so through his own ability, but through the good advisers that he has around him, beyond doubt they are deceived, because this is an axiom which never fails: that a prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice, unless by chance he has yielded his affairs entirely to one person who happens to be a very prudent man. In this case indeed he may be well governed, but it would not be for long, because such a governor would in a short time take away his state from him."

"But if a prince who is not experienced should take counsel from more than one he will never get united counsels, nor will he know how to unite them. Each of the counsellors will think of his own interests, and the prince will not know how to control them or to see through them. And they are not to be found otherwise, because men will always prove untrue to you unless they are kept honest by constraint. Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels."

The truth is we have allowed the Supreme Court to appoint an administration that acts like a 'bull in a china shop'. It is going to take years to undo the damage this child has done to this country. If he actually does take his arguments all the way and tampers with the Constitution, the America we grew up in may be gone forever, only to be replaced with a theocratic totalatarian oligarchy. Don't think it can happen here? Wake up! It already has.