I have no clue when he did it. But I recently saw President Bush and Saudi King, whose country has been supporting and financing Palestinian Entefada against Israeli occupation, as two buddies. Apparently, any lack of democracy, freedom of speech, or any rights for women, do not seem to upset our close friendship with the Wahabbi Saudi fundamentalists. I guess all "friendships" have a "price."
We have no problems supporting those who support and finance those who bomb Israeli pizza parlors, as long as they let us drive our SUVs for a nominal price of oil.
But of course, some people who want to monopolize what is American patriotism will not mention greed and business interests that often hurt our national interests.
Let's look at the open-border policy the current Administration has tolerated. We currently have an estimated 13 million illegal aliens. We have no way of knowing how many of these people are criminals, foreign agents, terrorist fifth column, how many of them carry dangerous diseases (they didn't check in with our Health department or get necessary immunizations), genetic diseases, etc.
Our newly emerged Republican front runner form Arizona is actually on record favoring amnesty for these illegal hordes, yet he is willing to commit our troops to Iraq fior 50 years in necessary to fight terrorists before they can enter the US! Well, out of those 13 million, chances are they are already in the US! while we are figthing them "over there."
You do the math. Say that, being very, very conservative, out of the 13 million, only one percent are foreign agents and Al-Caida operatives, and 99% are just "regular" illegals who pose no threat. That makes an army of 130,000 potential enemy combatants within our borders! Talk about a Trojan Horse!
And what has our Administration done to prevent that? Zero, zilch, nothing, nada. You know why? Because it's good for business. It makes business owners happy. They get cheap labor; who cares that greed and catering to greed jeopardizes our security and the health of our citizens!
Good old capitalism at work. It knows no boundaries. As long as it can make profit, it's good.
But, there are laws passed by the Congress that provide for stiff penalties for employers who hire illegals. Trouble is, no one is enforcing the law. We could rid this country of all illegals if we started to penalize the business that hire illegals. You cut out the demands and the supply stops. once they couldn't work they would go back to where they came from all on their own. Imagine that!
No walls needed, no need to National Guards, no need for more border agents, hi-tech cameras, vercroweded administrations and jails.
We would have 13 million fewer people using gas-guzzling cars and therefore greater supply and lower gas prices. And, more importantly we could concentrate on those who contine to cross into our country illegally or who, despite inability to work decided to remain. In both cases, we could assume that they are here for sinister reasons and not simply job-hunting, and we could hunt them down mercilessly.
But our Administration made sure little old ladies are prodded and poked at airports in order to prevent potential terrorists from entering the country! Why would terrorists try to come in through the airports when our southern border under this Administration and all previous Administrations is wide open!?
In your idealistic weltanschauung you simply don't see the sad realities that are actually making us less safe and more vulnerable, and our efforts overseas counterproductive. I have always maintained that as much as capitalism doesn't want educated consumers, democracies don't want educated voters. They want gullible consumers and gullible voters. And that's what we have, in my opinion.
Do you have a better idea?
Well -- now that you got all of that out of your system, do you feel better now????