The President's Next War

Today’s press briefing by President George W. Bush has garnered a great deal of attention due to his non-comments on the ongoing investigation of destroyed CIA torture videos. While this is an important issue which warrants our continued vigilance and outrage, what has largely gone unreported is the President’s blatant steps to engage our country in yet another war. It’s unsurprising that the media which failed to live up to it’s responsibilities in the run-up to the last disastrous war that the President started would once again be caught unaware as the President sought to fire a new Tonkin torpedo at his next target: Christmas.

"I hope you all enjoyed the holiday reception at the White House as much as Laura and I enjoyed it."

And just in case that were too subtle he went on to say:

"And we wish you a happy holidays."

I don’t know how the President thinks he will get away with this again, this time he’s been just a bit too blatant in his warmongering (clearly the departure of Karl Rove is having a thankfully deleterious affect on the Administration) but it will still take the commitment of concerned citizens to keep our nation from getting needlessly entangled in another war once again. Since I'm sure you all watch the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News you'll know that we have a stalwart defender in this war, and a journalist who knows the importance of the media in checking an overreaching Administration. I'm sure like me you eagerly anticipate his comment on this latest affront.