George is at it again!

George Bush has done it again. He has asked for Congressional buy-in to declare the Iranian army a terrorist organization. Many of the Republican and Democratic lawmakers voted in support of his declaration because they didn't want to be seen as weak on fighting terror. The problem is, no one took the time to become familiar with Iran and the relationship between Ahmadinejad and the Iran army.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and George Bush are not too dissimilar in their leadership styles. Both are hotheads who speak in grandiose ways about national pride and service to their country. Both use their positions as leaders of their countries to further their personal agendas and make themselves more important than they are. George Bush is more dangerous than his Iranian counterpart but not by much. Mr. Bush is trying to start another war in the Iraq/Iran region for a purpose known only to himself and his vice president Dick Cheney. They are both attempting to make Iran and the Iranian people, government and army out to be blatant terrorists with the destruction of the United States as their only goal.

However, if one listens to experts on Iran and her citizens, he/she would find that Mr. Ahmadinejad is not on the solid ground that our government would lead our lawmakers to believe. As a matter of fact, the Iranian army is much divided in their support of their president in his cat and mouse game with the U.S. While some of the army personnel do help the insurgents in Iraq, it is far from a majority of them. Many still do not like the Iraqi people and refuse to help them in their battle against the American invaders.

Interestingly, when George Bush asked for solidarity in defining Iran's army as being terrorists, our own military leaders, in the form of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put Mr. Bush on notice that they would not support a new war with Iran and that we were treading on dangerous ground by asking for the terrorist vote. By branding the entire Iranian army as a group of terrorists it has pulled them together and caused them to put their differences aside and make a united front against the American forces in Iraq. In short, our president has made the situation even worse than he had made it up until now; a feat that only a completely incompetent man in his position could achieve. George Bush has created a dangerous situation that could have been avoided by the initiation of talks with the Iranian leaders and applying some pressure to the Iranian army to support a peace initiative rather than saber rattling our way to another war.

Please remember that this man George Bush who is posing as a war time president rather than what he really is, a president who started a war, successfully evaded military service during the Viet Nam era and who now is taking obvious pleasure playing a war time president without any concern or even guilt over the deaths of thousands of American GIs and tens of thousands of Iraqis. His flippant remarks “bring it on” and “we’re kicking ass” and “mission accomplished” and other crude and thoughtless proclamations more than prove my point that he is a reckless, incompetent and inferior “leader”. He is, however, a diabolical and ruthless game player who uses his uncanny skills and ability to trap others into playing his game without their even realizing it.

He sprung such a trap on the clueless Democratic frontrunner, Ms. Clinton. He got her to once again vote for his insane plans to go to war, this time with Iran. She was a sheep led to the slaughter by an unkind shepherd who made her again commit her support to a war of his making just to show she was not soft on fighting terrorism. You blew it, Ms. Clinton. You fell right into the hands of the Republicans and George Bush in particular. You got caught in one hell of a political trap and it will be interesting to see how you get out of this one. Obama, Edwards, Dodd and Kucinich have not as yet voted to declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (the army) a terrorist organization; smelling a trap, I think.

The situation here in America is one where the Republicans won’t turn on one of their own, even though some indicate strong dissatisfaction with his presidency. The gutless Democrats won’t stop the funding for the war fearing that the backlash of killing and mayhem that will accompany our troop's withdrawal will be blamed on them instead of the one responsible for the whole mess; George W. Bush. So we continue down this dangerous and inhumane road for a while longer until our congressional leaders can rightly fix the blame on the other guy without regard for the deaths and dismemberments that occur daily in Iraq. Now that’s democracy at its worse! God bless America!