'Nucular' Winter

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." ~ George W. Bush, December 18, 2000

To every time there is a season and right now we are experiencing the winter of souls. Nuclear weapons are waving their ugly heads from the Capitol of the United States to the mountains of Kashmir. Rogue nations are ruffling feathers in the Bush Whitehouse, while the Bush administration has shown that it can exercise no discretion in its war-hyped rhetoric. Continuing to push its unilateralist agenda down the globe's throat has produced the frigid cold war climate that it sought. Behind the scenes they have rewarded movers and shakers from the Carlyle Group.

The spirit of Joseph McCarthy glows jealously at the powers that our strutting Attorney General John Ashcroft has achieved. While John slyly implies that any who question his motives is a closet terrorist, he hides his inner glee that his bullying tactics cover his complete ineptitude and incompetence or worse.

After seeing how handily Robert Mueller's self-effacing apology and mea culpas deflected the questioning spotlight of his inability to rise above the political posturing and butt-covering in the wake of Colleen Rowley's exposure of his naked stupidity in understanding national security, J. Edgar Hoover's transvestite soul is probably raising his skirts attempting to lure some attention to his bedraggled reputation.