Bush, no more a rising, but a confirmed threat to world peace

I really wish this post was a satire. But sadly, it's not.

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As Republicans blocked a full-fledged Senate debate over Iraq on Monday, the Democrats vowed they would eventually find a way to force President Bush to change course in a war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 U.S. troops.

What a misfortune that the senate is taking action as the soldiers have been sent into the battlefield. Is it not saying to them through a resolution, which is nonbinding, that we don't think the mission you're on makes sense and we don't want you to do it. Is it not putting their lives at risk?

Members of the United States Senate spent hours acting like first-graders at recess, arguing over dueling tit-for-tat.

Feinstein warned that if the nonbinding measure is blocked, even tougher proposals against the president's Iraq policy would surface before long. She said-

If we can't get this done, you can be sure that a month or so down the pike, there's going to be much stronger legislation

This is what you are planning anyway, and how childish to be saying, "You better give us this or we'll do worse."

The leaders of the United States Senate ought to be ashamed of themselves. They ought to know that stunts like yesterdays are exactly why the American people hold Congress in low esteem ... deservedly so. I hope that now it's out of their systems, they will be able to get back to doing the real work of the American people, instead of launching rhetorical spitballs.

However, the political jockeying unfolded as bombings and mortar attacks killed dozens across Baghdad. New plan of deploying more troops is doing nothing but perpetuating violence - amid indications that a much-awaited operation to restore peace to the capital is gearing up. Bush announced last month that he would beef up U.S. troop deployment to work alongside Iraqi units in an attempt to quell sectarian violence.

The American people do not support escalation. Voters made it clear last November; they want a change of course, not more of the same. The president must hear from Congress, so he knows he stands in the wrong place, alone and this don't surprise me as people around the world see him as a threat to world peace.

Do you think the US is a threat to world peace? Alternatively, do you support Mr. Bush's statement that America is working to spread peace and democracy around the world? Do you feel more or less secure since the US launched its 'war on terror' following the September 11 attacks? These are the questions put on the websites by the leading newspapers around the world. This at first sight caught me with surprise but looking at the fact that he's not a natural leader but perhaps he's more hostage to his Neo-con and Christian-Right friends and Republican Party financial supporters than many would see fit for the president of the USA.

The point is even from a conservative/colonialist standpoint- Bush by his idiocy, blindness, lack of competence insight, and total gracelessness/boorishness has given neo-colonialist intervention, and capitalism, a bad name. So, it is that Bush and his cronies fail to grasp that by going at Iraq unnecessarily and in such a ham handed way has made it virtually impossible to intervene anywhere else. He has thus diminished the US and its potential allies as a force.

At this point, Germany's greatest living novelist and noble laureate, Guenter Grass, seems right, when asked in an interview with Times Of India- What is your response to the execution of Saddam Hussein?

Guenter replied confidently:

I am against death sentence, as a matter of principle. But the issue here is war crime. Now if Saddam is guilty of perpetrating war crimes, then Bush and Rumsfeld, too, should have stood inside the same prisoner's dock, as both stands accused of committing identical crimes. As for the latest decision of Bush to send more American troops to Iraq, I have only one sentence to add- he has always been a threat to world peace and his latest move will fuel more senseless violence

And not only this, it is now America that is seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbors and allies; according to an international survey of public opinion published in November 2006 that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq.