Stop the President!
Who will stop President Bush from destroying the future? Bush wants billions more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while ratcheting up the rhetoric against Iran and moving ships and troops into place for a possible war with that nation. Meanwhile the President wants to make permanent the tax cuts that mostly benefit the rich while trying to balance the national budget by reducing “domestic spending”–specifically by cutting funds to help the poor, the elderly, children, and people who cannot survive without such help.
The troops need our support, President Bush says, as he asks for billions more in “defense” spending. The troops, however, increasingly say it’s time for them to come home. Bush says our help in Iraq is not “open-ended.” Most Iraqis say they want our help ended now by leaving their country.
Most people who publicly write and speak about international matters say that attacking Iran would be foolish. But even Senator Hillary Clinton, speaking to a Jewish audience Friday, said nothing should be “taken off the table” in considering options for stopping Iran from becoming a nuclear power. How is that any different than Bush’s position?
Who will stop the President? Who will turn the course of the raging river of war, arrogance, and greed we are caught in today?
