The Real State of the Union

A federalist nation trying to impose democracy on a feudal nation is not unlike pro-life activists trying to run an abortion clinic. Neither have a clear understanding of the principles they are trying to instill. Most people in America have been led to believe we live in a democracy, but this is not true. What we have is a federalist state where the government oversees the people instead of the people overseeing the government. All one has to do is to look at how policy is made and how special interest groups influence legislation to understand this.

If not for the revelations of the media in the past weeks in the matters of military spying, collusion amongst lobbyists and elected officials, and presidential misconduct we might have never known. With all these improprieties coming to light the Republican Party members are jumping ship en masse like a herd of lemmings headed towards the cliffs. Are we to be fooled into believing that people of power which had this information before the media began exposing these events had our best interest at heart when they chose not to divulge these acts of misconduct? Is the gross negligence President Bush showed by declaring war using faulty intelligence forgivable? I hardly think so, accountability is something the Republican Party has been screaming for at the top of their lungs since the first Clinton administration took office, but now it seems accountability takes a back seat to security.

This war with Iraq has never really been a declarative war, it started out as a conflict precipitated by a terrorist strike, and we sent literally thousands of troops into Afghanistan in search of the culpable parties yet had very little success in this endeavor, yet within months of our declared "conflict" it started being called a war. As with all war declarations an entity to declare intentions against is needed, a fundamentalist party, insurgents, leader or nation instead we chose to declare war against a social structure which President Bush didn't agree with.