So High Above

The Iraq leaders are making noise about the United States Military leaving Iraq and are actually in talks with the Iranians about a joint security agreement. Will The Republican Bush/Cheney Administration leave Iraq when the Iraqis ask them to leave? Under the Republican Bush/Cheney war trillions of U.S. dollars have been spent in Iraq, not only to prosecute the war but also to build permanent Military Bases and the largest most expensive embassy in the world. At the end of December the UN mandate that Bush points to as justification for the invasion of Iraq comes to an end. Without a formal invitation from the Iraqi Government to continue the occupation there will not be any viable document that the Republican Bush/Cheney Administration can point to as reason to continue the occupation. The lives of tens of thousands of U.S. Military personnel and their families have been shattered, and tens of thousands of units of blood have spilled from the veins of the U.S. Military Personnel ille...

The 2006 Elections gave a majority to the Democrats in Congress, although a small majority, it is still a majority with Democrats holdings all the leadership positions in both the House and The Senate. Since the Election of 2006 this Democratic led Congress has not accomplished ANYTHING. The Leadership in the House has blocked all attempts by Committees that were looking into the corruption of this Administration and has stifled any Congressman who even mentioned impeachment. If we accept the premise that hearings, indictments and impeachments would have been destructive, then this should have left time for initiative, innovation, and leadership, however, this too has failed to materialize. Truman's Congress of the late 40's was nicknamed "The Do Nothing Congress", but I think that the 109 th Congress, the present Congress, has now made the 80 th Congress look like the most prolific Congress the US has ever seen. Exactly what has this Congress been working on? Durin...