THE BIG CHESS GAME

DEAR GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS AND RYAN CROCKER:

DON'T BETRAY US DON'T GIVE US ANOTHER BIG CROCK OF YOU KNOW WHAT

The Bush administration, and more specifically Bush himself (and, of course, Dick Cheney), will not give up their fight or ship in Iraq, even though that ship has shipwrecked and the fight is not winnable.

The American people know this.

Our democracy is no longer a democracy where the voice of the people is listened to by Congress or the president.

The United States will not win a war in Iraq where its own citizens are fighting each other and their invader/occupier.

Liberator?

O! Tragic name for a tragic war!

Good-sounding words do not always produce reality.

Bush wants to be a leader known to history as one who didn't retreat from his mistakes and blunders.

History's fact sheet on such leaders is not a good one.

Hitler and Napoleon come to mind.

Of course, the Decider is no world conqueror or savior.

He just believes that he is.

The U.S. Congress is Bush's biggest shill.

The Democrats raise taxes so that the Republicans and Democrats can spend and spend and spend.

The Iraq war will continue and continue and continue.

Iran will become another piece moved in the great chess game.

Bullets, bombs and missiles are big bucks.

The U.S. war economy will continue to bomb and invade in the name of its self-interests and national security.

But Bush's Iraq war has given us neither.

The democrats will continue to carry the baton, and in fact, may expand the war into other regions.

The chess game is controlled by the Pentagon and its money brokers.

A president just moves the chessmen.

CHECKMATE.