A no-CARB Diet

(For my blog readers, I had major computer problems last week, up until Thursday evening when someone who knows computers helped me straighten it out.)

As anyone who knows me knows that controlling my weight has always been a concern for me.  For a long time I had a refrigerator magnet that said, “Ewe’s not fat, ewe’s fluffy”, with a picture of a ewe.  So, after this past week or so I have gone back to a mantra I used during the first decade of this century, using my body diet concerns for the body politic landscape of this country.  And that is, a no-CARB diet.

Why the capital letters?  They stand for Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Bush – CARB.  And all of the people who go with them – Condoleeza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, and the rest of the empty calories that can cause so much damage to the body politic.  I truly wish I could use the past tense when talking about the damage to the body politic, but the CARBs have surfaced again. 

For our country alone they have caused so much anguish and heartache with their 19^th century robber-baron economic policies.  No taxes on the wealthy and wealthy corporations; allowing people and corporations to hide their assets overseas to avoid paying taxes on them; sending jobs overseas to countries with no unions for their workers in order to maximize profits for the corporations, profits which are then hidden in overseas banks; still working to gut our social safety nets that people not just want but desperately need like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP food stamps; trying to either get rid of completely or privatize every government service they can think of, including the Post Office.  And the heirs of the CARBs refusing to cooperate with President Obama to actually help everyday working Americans with government programs such as repairing our failing infrastructures, like bridges and roads.

These CARBS and empty calories lied us into a war with Afghanistan and Iraq on the contention that the Afghanis were the cause of the terror attacks on 9/11.  Completely ignored was the knowledge, known as a fact, that the terrorists on those airplanes on 9/11 were Saudi Arabians!!  But since the Bush family was and are friends of the Saudi family, since they are all ‘oilys’ together, we had to attack some other country.  So we chose a country still living for a good part in the 15^th century with our 21^st century military!  What bravery on the part of the CARBS.  Then to get the Iraq oil, lied us into a war with Iraq which has cost over 4,000 American lives, nearly 100,000 Iraqi lives, 35-40,000 Americans horribly wounded, and costing this country billions of dollars, but gaining Halliburton some 700 million dollars in profits - a corporation that Cheney is closely associated with.

Now the CARBS and empty calories have surfaced again to try to get President Obama and this country to once again militarily go back into Iraq.  What absolute gall!!  Everyone who could think knew what would happen when we left Iraq.  With our stupid policies in Iraq while were still there, we aggravated ancient antagonisms between Sunni and Shia Moslems.  So know they think we can go back in and smooth things over?  And why is the media even giving them one minute of time? 

Instead, in my opinion, we should all read very carefully the book by Vincent Bugliosi, famed Prosecutor, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.  This book lays out in a very logical and legal manner why W. should be prosecuted for the deaths of so many people, Americans, Afghanis, and Iraqis and also for the crime of war profiteering.  When we send some poor schumck to prison for the possession of a few ounces of marijuana and let someone who has caused so much death and destruction to so many simply because he was president is criminal in itself.  In my opinion, all of the CARBS and empty calories ought to be put on trial for war crimes against humanity, and/or for war profiteering.