DETROIT — We are living under a regime that has made war and torture highly profitable for a handful of scummy corporations and individuals. That’s the way the Busheviks like doing business, keeping their dirtiest deeds in the hands of for-profit surrogates.
Openness and accountability — hallmarks of a free society — have no place in the mad project to sell and impose “freedom” in Iraq.
Desperate to drum up support for his horrible mistakes and refusal to recognize his failed polices, President George Bush made a “major policy” speech last Wednesday, outlining his strategy for “victory” in Iraq.
The venue for his address was the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. For our rattled and insecure president, on not-so-secret double-probation from the American public, traveling to cozy military confines is like the “road trip” the Deltas in “Animal House” took to duck their troubles and hide from their adversaries.
The military provides Bush with support for his policies and the comfort and adulation he craves. Bush could look out at a sea of naval uniforms...