As this 4th of July approaches, lots of thoughtful Americans among our 304 million citzens are likely contemplating what this 230th year of our country, and subsequent years, hold in store for the United States. If a new story in the Washington Post is to be believed, G.W. Bush is even counted among them.

Regardless of if Bush is indeed consulting the intellectual establishment for their thoughts on his legacy, the tremendous impact of the Bush/Cheney Presidency is, unfortunately, a foregone conclusion. On the hands of his neocon cabal is the blood of 3,600 coalition soldiers and half a million Iraqis (give or take a hundred thousand souls, the government isn’t saying). On the heads of he and his appointees now lie the weight of near a decade of corporate collusion and environmental disasters.

As the truth continues to slowly unravel on Cheney and his beloved Energy Task Force, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, DeLay, Scooter, Gonzales and the rest of the gang, let us hope that this 4th of July will signal a turning point in this dark experiment of fascist oligarchy that Bush and Cheney have ushered in on an unsuspecting public. Let’s hope that we posses the grace to put aside our differences of opinion and culture, so that good Americans everywhere can unite in peaceful yet stern resistance to the tide of corporate greed that so threatens our national values, and let’s pray that we have the insight to see through the devious corporate media-speak that exploits those differences to keep us divided. After all is said and done, we are all Americans, this is our country, we are the government, and it will take every single conscionable American to stem this tide.

Happy 4th of July everybody!

Update: In an Edward R. Murrow style address broadcast last night, MSNBC Anchor Keith Olbermann blasts Bush on his decision Monday to pardon I. Lewis Libby, accuses him of thwarting the process of law, and calls for he and Cheney to resign or be impeached. A Must watch.

 

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