Patience, Mr. President?

Now, "here he goes again"......as Ronald Reagan once said famously.

Today, in his weekly radio address, President George W. Bush asked the American people to have "patience" when looking at his occupation of what once was a soveriegn nation, Iraq....which he, of course, turned into quagmire worse than Vietnam, and in which we are, for whatever the reason could possibly be, trying to install a government that is, as sure as the President can't speak good english, going to be a staunch ally of Iran, as well as a theocracy, instead of the democracy that he promised. Of course, if a theocracy like the President wants for the U.S. is good enough for us, then.......hey.

But, to me, the surprise was Mr. Bush's use of the word, "patience". Like he even knows the meaning of the word!!

"Patience" would have been a WONDERFUL thing to have when the United Nations was conducting its inspections of Iraq for weapons of mass destruction. Weapons, that when they weren't being found, cause the Bush Administration's Chickenhawks to push th U.N. aside and militarily invade a soverign nation that had never been a threat to the U.S. Weapons that the adminstration KNEW, by then, weren't there. Weapons which gave them all of the excuses they could possibly need to pursue their only REAL reason for killing nearly 2000 American kids in the process....REGIME CHANGE FOR THE SAKE OF OIL!!

Boy, would patience have come in handy there. Just think, if Bush had let the U.N. finished their inspections, and proved to the world that Iraq HAD NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, then there would be nearly 2000 families that wouldn't have had to attend funerals for loved ones too young to have to die for corporate interests. There wouldn't be the threat of a government that, in many ways, will prove to be even WORSE than Saddam Hussein's regime.

If the U.S. would have shown some "patience", there could've been THOUSANDS more American troops that could have been in and around Afghanistan and the regions around it, looking for Osama Bin Laden....the coward who actually was responsible for taking the lives of over 3000 people on American soil! THOUSANDS more troops to PUNISH those who were involved in 9/11...those who harbored and financed the terrorists!!

Of course, "patience" in that case, would have caused Bush and Cheney to not fulfill the campaign promises they made to their corporate buddies in the oil industry. There would have been none of the no-bid contracts for Cheney's old company, Halliburton.

And it would have required Bush to back up his threats, that proved to be so empty, of punishing the countries that DID harbor and finance terrorism...like Saudi Arabia. Or actually LOOK for Bin Laden, who Dubya used the phrase, "wanted dead or alive", when speaking of him earlier. And, you must know, that THOSE TWO instances, would have made meetings of the Carlyle Group very TENSE for his father, and all of their friends.

"Patience is a virtue" has been a phrase I have heard my entire life. But "patience" is something that is being expected of the people of the United States, by a President who chose not to have any himself, when putting our young people at risk for the personal gain of his cronies.

Until next time........