TheBanyanTree: Death of 2006

[Margaret R. Kramer]

Would you want Dick Cheney at your funeral?  I’ve always had neutral
feelings about Gerald Ford.  He was neither a bad or good president.  I
always thought that his pardon of Nixon was wrong, regardless of “healing
the country.”  Nixon opened the gate of corruption and it’s never closed,
pardon or no pardon.  Look at the president we have today – he’s an
embarrassment to our country.

Gerald Ford’s former chief of staff, Dick Cheney, gave a well-written eulogy
about what a great guy President Ford was, naming all the virtues that go
with being a good person.  I kept looking at the speaker, with his vampire
teeth and beady evil eyes, and wondered, how could he identify any righteous
characteristics in anyone when he has so few of his own?  Cheney is evil
personified.  Why would any normal person want Cheney within 10 feet of
them?  He belongs in a permanent undisclosed location.  He reminds me of
Hitler’s Martin Bormann.

It did please me, however, that Gerald Ford condemned the Bush
Administration’s efforts in Iraq.  One leader after another sees what
everyone else sees, except Bush and his lackeys, that Iraq is lost.  America
can’t fight guerilla-style warfare.  We need a tangible enemy to be
victorious.  Vietnam and now Iraq provide us with only shadows to fight and
our punches keep missing.

In contrast to the dignified state funeral of President Ford, we had the
salivating media monitoring the execution of Saddam Hussein.  Yes, he was a
butcher.  He was a killer.  But he did NOT cause 9/11.  He did NOT develop
weapons of mass destruction.  And he did NOT harbor Al Qaeda in his country.
He was a typical dictator that America supports when it suits the situation.
So the media surrounds him in death like a bunch of rabid dogs.  And we in
America, because we have lost any sense of honor, of dignity, and of respect
for others, right or wrong, and we’re such a “Christian” country, aren’t we?
eagerly cheer on his death like a touchdown in a football game.  Rah!  Rah!

Meanwhile Iraq is just the same – a quagmire of lost hopes and dreams.

Hopefully 2007 will bring our country back to where it should be.  Bush,
even with a Republican Congress behind him, accomplished nothing except
pouring billions of dollars into a war that is over.  We lost, we destroyed
Iraq, let’s move on and fix our own country.

We elected some good leaders this year.  Let’s see if they can get America
back on track and neutralize Bush and his cronies.  We have two more years
of this moron.  Let’s make the best of it and restore the world’s respect
for the United States, and also our own.

Margaret R. Kramer
margaretkramer at comcast.net

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I
don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not
having at other times.
~Kate L. Bosher