David Corbin of Lopez Island, Washington had his perceptive comments expressed in the Monday, May 28 Memorial Day edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  They included some powerful visions of how we could achieve peace:

"We'll need to expend at least as much effort and expense as we've squandered on our wars.  Both as a nation and as individuals, we Americans will put our energies and our dollars, indeed our lives, into efforts for a better world.  If we have to go to war to create a better world, we are doomed to failure."

World War One was called "The war to end all wars."  World War Two saw 50 million people die and the discovery of the atom bomb, followed by nuclear power that gave mankind the means to destroy everybody and everything on the planet.

If we cannot face the reality of the doomsday potential we have now created, we will be racing to the long prophesied Armageddon end of the world scenario.  The threat of the military industrial complex singing the siren song of doom is heard as it seduces the ignorant while the gullible claim that another war will bring us closer to peace.

A Seattle Times Sunday, February 18, 2007 headline read:

SENATE DEMS FALL SHORT ON VOTE, PLEDGE NEW TACTICS AGAINST WAR

"Washington, Seattle Times News Service - After Republicans blocked a Senate debate for a second time, Democrats said Saturday they will drop efforts to pass a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq and will offer a flurry of ant-war legislation just like the days of Vietnam.  

"The tough talk came one day after the House passed its anti-Iraq resolution as the GOP used a procedural vote to stop the Senate from debating the 21,500-troop buildup.  Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said his party would be relentless.  `There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment, just like in the days of Vietnam,' Schumer said."

The recommendations continue regarding investigating grounds for impeaching George W. Bush as well as censure.  Periodically we also read and hear about petition efforts to attack Bush, Cheney, or Rumsfeld.

The time for such actions has long passed.  The term "arrogance of power" that was reiterated so often in analyzing the actions of President Richard M. Nixon three decades ago has been carried to new meaning through the ruthless exercise of power by an unelected ruling Junta led by Dick Cheney.

Despite the Cheney-Bush Junta's disdain for France, the comment that unlike any other epitomizes its rule was attributed to France's King Louis XIV of "L'etat, c'est moi."  This translates to "I am the state," directly applicable to a scorched earth policy by Cheney-Bush in which the United States Constitution has, according to some, been trashed with impunity.

The Constitution has been as much a victim of abandonment as have the poor and middle class socioeconomic elements in the Cheney-Bush economic experience.  When Bush seeks to treat war launching in Iraq as no more than a judgment error on weapons of mass destruction that yielded positive results in the end, he is engaging in insidious distortion.