So I've been listening to Air America Radio this week, and I'm politically charged up, like someone walking across the carpet gathering static electricity. Time to deliver the shock and release all my feelings about current political issues. You, my readers, are the unsuspecting person about to be shocked in the back of the neck (in most other cases, usually my friend Adrien).

Now I will be drifting from subject to subject, meandering, digressing, and going off on tangents, so bear with me.

To start things off, there's the issue of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. Bush has taken a five-week vacation (in the middle of a war, even!) to good-ole Crawford, Texas, and Cindy and a group of other mothers who have lost sons or daughters in Iraq are now camping as close as they can to Bush's property. (A neighbor of Bush let them camp on his property, right next door.)

Why are they camping there? To ask our Fearless Leader a simple question: "For what noble cause are we sending our sons and daughters to die in Iraq?"

Why does Bush not answer? He can't. There is no noble cause. First, they said Saddam Hussein had WMDs. Later, we found out that that was false. Next, they said we were deposing Saddam because he was a truly vile dictator, in collaboration with Al-Qaeda. Looking at the turmoil currently going on in Iraq, what with the possibility that it may not become the secular democracy we had hoped, but rather an Islamic republic, it appears the Iraqis were better off WITH Saddam. And, if Hussein actually does have ties to Al-Qaeda, we haven't found them yet, even though we've kept him detained for over a year now.

Then, they said we were trying to install a democracy. Why Iraq? There are plenty of countries in this world that are not democracies.

China is not a democracy. Why didn't we invade them? We can't do it. We can't bring democracy to them. We may have a technologically superior military, but they have the advantage of numbers. To use a computer gaming term, they can Zerg us.

If you armed the entire population of China, and we armed our entire population, and sent our population to invade, they outnumber us 4 to 1. Every soldier of ours would have to gun down 4 chinese before being shot himself (or herself). If we decide to pull out the Nukes we've been keeping around for just that very occasion, not only will the image of Americans as greedy imperialist pigs be forever cemented in the mind of the world, the Chinese will then use THEIR NUKES AGAINST US. War on Terror, meet World War III.

What amazes me more is that the Chinese can do that without insane military spending. CIA World Factbook (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2067rank.html) states that as of 2003, United States military expenditures were about $370 billion. As of 2004, China's military expenditures were about $60.7 billion. We spend 6 times more money than the next guy in line, and yet we're at a disadvantage.

Which begs the question: What are we spending all that money on? We're certainly not spending it on BODY ARMOR FOR OUR TROOPS which we still need.

(By the way, watch the TrueMajority intro video at http://www.truemajority.com/oreos to see ice cream tycoon Ben Cohen explain his idea for how we could be spending our money more judiciously.)

But getting back to Cindy Sheehan, Apparently Bush is running away from here; plans for a vacation from the vacation are in order. Where is Bush going? Idaho, the state that has the highest level of support for him. Both Jerry Springer and Randi Rhodes, who have shows on Air America Radio, have come to the easily-supported conclusion that Bush doesn't want to listen to anyone who doesn't agree. That can't be done in a democracy; both sides have to be heard. No Dialogue, No Democracy. That's how it works. Remember when Bush said:

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
(Quoted from CNN.com 12/18/2000).

And on that note, It seems I have run out of steam. Join us next time, when our political target will be Rush Limbaugh. Thank you and good night.