I Have a ..... Nightmare

I Have a …Nightmare. 
 
How is it that so many of my dreams for minority representation and my hopes for a truly fulfilling woman candidate for president have turned so horrifically to the dark side? Perhaps the only silver lining in the upcoming presidential election is that, if the Democrats nominate either leading hypocrite: Hillary or Barack, it will finally destroy the Democratic Party once and for all and end the fraud of the two party system in this country. I guess the Republicans are not the only ones to slip the cyanide in with the frosting in their parading of women and minorities in highly visible positions of responsibility. 
 
I was quite disturbed to read the NYT interview where Barack appeared to backpedal away from his reluctant admission that he would probably not use nukes preemptively. This issue makes me fairly mad (that is insane) with anger at the officials of both parties and the American people in their lack of understanding of the implications of another release of the power of the atom as an act of war. Monday will be the 62nd anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima (Aug 6, 1945). I probably do not have to inform the MWC News readers that historians are pretty much of the opinion that this use of atomic weapons was a colossal mistake. Human history, if there will continue to be such a thing much longer, will condemn the United States of America as having committed one of the greatest atrocities against humanity.  
 
I have for the past year been trying in vain to get our Representatives and Senators in Washington to condemn any preemptive use of nuclear weapons by this country against Iran. I am deathly afraid that Bush and Co. are seriously contemplating just such an action. This will make this country an even greater universally condemned pariah in the eyes of the world than it already is. Long after we as a society have been buried beneath the rubble of our garbage, generations yet unborn will curse our existence. Yet, from these noble gentlemen and gentlewomen who presume to represent us, barely a peep is heard. Do they have no memory of history and not a shred of humanity that will move them to condemn such an action and take no stand to prevent a second such blunder on the world stage? 
 
I cannot bear such a thought, and after hearing the two front runners in the Democratic Presidential race pussy foot around the issue I cannot bear either of them as well. This will probably get me put in some rendition program for saying so. But if Bush actually does bomb Iran on whatever trumped up charges he chooses, I plan on doing something dramatic that may actually get a local headline or two. don’t worry, it will be largely symbolic and non violent. And to give the Feds another charge to levy against me, I urge all patriotic Americans to do the same. Note to my enemies: Here is your chance to turn me in and score big points with our Department of Fatherland Security. Our second barbaric use of nuclear weaponry in anger cannot be tolerated by any sane person anywhere in the world. Those who do not do everything humanly possible to restore sanity to the body politic will be judged complicit in this crime. 
 
Bob Boldt 
 
PS 
America’s treasury and America’s reputation are not all that has been trashed. The bridge collapse last week pointed out just how dramatically our infrastructure has been trashed as well. I really cannot understand how the popular rumor started that this government gives a crap for this country, its security or its people.