Coming home for the holidays

I have a feeling that the 59,054,087 "dumb Americans" who voted to allow George W. Bush and the neo-cons to keep their jobs will be having second thoughts after the imminent attack on Fallujah. I know that most of that 51 percent of Americans who voted for Dubya don't give a rats ass about brown-skinned foreigners but it might hit home when they start to hear the stories of all the (white, christian) fathers, sons and brothers who will be coming home for the holidays in flag-draped boxes.

The first casualties of the upcoming battle have already occured. British troops from the Black Watch were reassigned from Basra in the south to Baghdad to take over for US troops that will be headed to Fallujah. On the way there several of the Black Watch soldiers were killed in an attack.

Maybe the British people will put pressure on Tony Blair to get their troops out of Iraq. Maybe they can do what the American people are incapable of doing--restraining neo-con aggression.

In his victory speech Bush said that he would reach out to the 55 million people who voted against him.

So today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent: To make this nation stronger and better I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation. -- GW Bush, November 3, 2004

Then, yesterday during a rare press conference he said, "I'll reach out to everyone who shares our goals." Hey, that's big of him. It's not much of reach though.

These guys can't even stop spinning after a victory. On Wednesday Cheney called the election results "a broad, nationwide victory" and that "the nation responded by giving him a mandate." Has he seen the map?

So the neo-cons are probably sitting in their bunkers laughing at all of those people who went out to vote for "moral values". They got the job done. They mobilized enough scared old people and homophobic white people to get their boy elected. Now they can carry on with their plan for world domination--until the people realize and admit that they were duped.