Is George Bush a Mad Emperor?

COMMENTARY:
Is George Bush a Mad Emperor?
by William Hughes

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” --Cicero

The Roman masses finally figured out that their highly eccentric Emperor, Caligula, was a raving lunatic when it was revealed that he was having lavish dinner parties in honor of his favorite horse and that he had even considered making it a Consul! Caligula’s reported incestuous relationships with his sisters was bad enough for them to stomach; the “horse thing,” however, became the tipping point. Caligula had to go! He was soon replaced, in a palace-orchestrated coup de dictator, by the bookish Claudius. At that time, unfortunately for the batty Caligula, there wasn’t an “impeachment process” or “censure proceedings” in place to hasten his exit in a peaceful and dignified manner from the then chaotic political scene in the Eternal City.

Recently, President George W. Bush, a/k/a “Bush II,”--a would-be “Emperor” if there ever was one--was forced to own up to the shocking fact that in Oct., 2001, he had covertly ordered the National Security Agency (NSA), to spy on countless U.S. residents. Is Bush, too, losing his mind? Coming on top of his damnable lies that got the U.S. into the Iraqi War, this is another very disturbing bombshell. Bush has been spying on our citizenry without the required court orders and in direct violation of the liberties guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and in other laws of the land. Question: Is the fact that Bush is acting contemptuously, and above the law, in this latest disgusting scandal, going to be a tipping point for the American people? When are they going to stop putting up with his crazed antics? Will this repulsive episode be like Caligula’s “horse thing?” Well, I sure hope so!


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More to the point, Bush has now confessed to the shameful fact that the totally unnecessary Iraqi War, which he chose to launch in March, 2003, has killed “more than 30,000 Iraqis.” It has also taken the lives of 2,156 American military personnel, while wounding 16,000 more. The vast majority of the Iraqi victims were innocent people, many of them women and children. A British-based study by the distinguished medical journal Lancet says that the number of Iraqi fatalities is closer to 100,000. In any event, Bush’s illegal, immoral and unjust Iraqi war has caused more deadly casualties than the reigns of the despotic Caligula and Nero combined. Bush persists, however, in saying that it was all about bringing “democracy” to Iraq. This is the same kind of irrational thinking demonstrated by the unhinged Nero in wanting to “improve” Rome by first burning it to the ground.


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In summation, what Bush is now doing to the American people by unlawfully spying on them is clearly an impeachable offense under the U.S. Constitution. We are being ruled by a man who has no respect for our laws, the Courts or our institutions. He is a one-man wrecking crew--a menace to our society and to its revered traditions. He is also the architect of another insidious evil--"Perpetual War." Bush is as wacky in his own flakey ways as were the nutty Caligula and Nero in theirs. Unless “Emperor Bush” is stopped--impeached and jailed--by an awakened people who have reached their tipping point, he will lead America further into the abyss. It is a place from which our Republic, founded by the gallant patriots of old, may never be able to return.


http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2005/122305Hughes.html

What a visionary !

clearly he is wrecking America.

er...DUH!