It looks like the success in ridding Afghanistan of the Taliban and chasing Osama bin Laden to somewhere else is driving the rhetoric we have been hearing that we are gearing up to make war on Saddam Hussein.

We hear about all the unrest throughout the world and center on the continuing disaster in the Holy land. The latest news is that the worthy UNRRA organization overseeing “relief” for the refugees in “camps” in Palestinian territory is still struggling to support a population that produces “martyrs” in militant murderous organizations in an unremitting war against Israel.  This is on the first mentions of the disparate roles of the UN that politically supports branding Zionism as Nazism while its relief organization tries to mitigate the suffering neglect by other Arab countries impose on the Palestinians.

But, it is the war cries we hear while our economy suffers from unwise, bad and wrong choices by the Bush Administration to feed the Rich and suffer the unwise small investor.  Taking our minds off our retirement woes and the loss of jobs by choosing a war economy so that jobs will be available and our attention switched to malnourished Iraqis (they like Palestinians have been starved for years by being denied sustenance) and the monster who builds palaces and poison gas facilities.  So, it seems that if we make war on Iraq (an easy one if Hussein’s performance in the Gulf is used as a standard) we will be able to sweep away the international trouble-maker and “democracy” will automatically make its appearance.

It has always interested me to notice that the democracies make war to defend the world against totalitarianism while they still do business with dictators and totalitarian countries.  It must be that some totalitarian countries and some dictators are more equal than others.  This purported necessary war against Iraq does not compute.  Our people here in America are not hungry for war.  They are hungry for medical care, Social Security benefits, a stable stock market and more movies to take their minds off the troubles the Bush family have brought us.

Let me say this about that.  Clinton gave our economy a boost but the stock market boosted itself (regulation is a joke) out into the stratosphere. Clinton looks better and better although he won’t ever be rehabilitated in the minds of born again people. Clinton would be a better choice than Gore who missed his chance by not going hammer and tongs against Bush II.  It is a curious world.  We need to go to war against a country that would surely gas all of Israel and Palestine if attacked by long range pilot-less airplanes, say the strategists who know that the world will certainly be turned upside down again if this mad idea is carried through.

Quick, raise your hand if you want to make war on Iraq.