The Blog | Arianna Huffington: The Injustice at Justice: The White House's Fingerprints Begin to Show | The Huffington Post

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: The Injustice at Justice: The White House's Fingerprints Begin to Show | The Huffington Post

Will the White House do more than offer a sacrificial lamb or scapegoat for this scandal? That is the question du jour. Who will be the counsel firings' Libby? It'll be sad for our country if people so eager for war demonstrate such cowardice because of their attachment to power.

Bait and Switch

When reading the HuffPost today I came across a cartoon that illustrates the bait and switch approach to keeping focus off of pertinent issues. It's quite amusing--applies to the recent Bill Maher "incident."

From Arrianna

Arianna Huffington hits the right tone on the implications of the Libby verdict. Yet, I'm sure that none of the Bushites will get impeached for their mendacity. Meanwhile while they proceed to cover their posteriors, young men die, at risk students fail poverty levels rise and the world in DC continues as is without anyone applying the brakes.

What a lousy system!

Leaving Iraq?

Following the November elections I expected greater momentum toward our military draw down in Iraq. From the story about leaving Iraq, there may be a slim opportunity to do this. However, I don't believe the Republicans in the US Senate will allow such a plan to move forward. Peace would be so great to have, especially if we can gain it quickly and with the use of diplomacy that includes nations in and around the Middle East.

Eisenhower's Farewell Address: A Lesson for Today

I like history and frequently wonder how people I admire from the past would deal with current issues. We are living in a world where our current POTUS initiated a war in the Middle East. His motives are ostensibly "noble," yet when the thousands of wounded men and women who served at his behest return to the US too many find insufficient treatment, belittlement of their conditions, loss of careers and lack of actual support. My cousin in Florida tells me that is not the case where her son works as a medical doctor working at the VA Hospital near Tampa. I write about this tonight, March 7, 2007 because the story about VA issues is off the front burner today displaced by the "Scooter Libby" verdict. That story is fascinating in what we learn about the current POTUS' administration's handling of events that displease them. However, the Libby verdict should not take all the attention away from important issues such as the veterans' issues, education issues etc.

I heard Bill Gates in front of a senate committee providing cogent and forward thinking suggestions about how to deal with education and nary a word of this was published on the online blogs and news papers I read. A nation that does not keep its citizens well prepared for the future has a bleak future of its own.

It was great hearing that problem solving assignments engage even high risk students. I'll see how that plays out at the conference I'll attend in the next two weeks.

Unlike Eisenhower who cautioned a future government to aim for balance in the use of a military industrial complex, current presidents have failed and now we are neglecting social programs for an increase in military spending. The costs are mighty in terms of lives, blood, and money and in terms of what we do not do for the future citizens of our country and what we do not do now for the poor, under educated etc.

So I wish that the Shrub would be more like George Washington and Dwight David Eisenhower and less like Cheney.