At the end of my last post, I made a comment about Jesse Jackson. In order to ensure that I got the name of his shakedown racket coalition correct, I went to the Rainbow/PUSH website. Big mistake. I just had to read what good old Jesse has been saying.

I stumbled across this op-ed he wrote on July 19, 2005 and published in the Chicago Sun Times.

I do not even know where to begin with this one. I guess we will just start at the beginning:

Would you buy a used car from George W. Bush? On the fundamental questions of war and peace, of calling on the bravest young American men and women to sacrifice their lives, this administration and this president no longer have a shred of credibility. With U.S. forces mired in Iraq, it grows harder to separate the logic from the lies in this president’s “war of choice.”

Well, at least he refrained from calling him Hitler.

Consider the headlines of the past week. The new Iraqi president, Ibrahim al-Jafaari, has traveled to Iran to cement a security alliance with the fundamentalist Iranian mullahs, prime members of the president’s Axis of Evil. Ali Shamkhani, the Iranian Defense Minister hailed the pact as “a new chapter in our relations with Iraq.” Has the U.S. spent $200 billion and sacrificed nearly 2000 lives and left thousands more maimed and wounded so that the mullahs of Iran, who despise the U.S., could gain an ally in Iraq and create a “Shiite crescent” in the Persian Gulf? It is hard to imagine any outcome that could be more destabilizing in this critical region of the world.

Yeah that would be a bad outcome, so that is why we are fighting so hard against extremisms. This is a new card the Left seems to be playing. They were against the war from the start, but now that Iraq is free and the Iraqi people have voted, it looks like things may turn out as a success. They can’t have a success. So now they point out all the things that could go wrong. Well, yeah. Things could turn terribly wrong. Iran could launch a few nukes at Iraq and wipe out a large part of our army. Iraq could end up in a civil war. The sky may fall. Pigs may fly and Hell may freeze over. To me the important thing to look at is how was it before the invasion? Was it a nice stable place? Heck no. Saddam still harbored ambitions of a reconstituted weapons program. Why? So he could strike out against his neighbors and against the U.S. If I recall, I believe old Jesse was one of those who said we were just misunderstanding Saddam. If we would only lift the sanctions. Bad things may still happen, that is the cost of leadership. Things do not always turn out like you want. Aw, but old Jesse has something to say about that as well.

This nightmare sensibly haunts the administration. Thus, Seymour Hersh, the New Yorker reporter who has done more to bring forth the truth about the war than anyone,[*cough* *laugh* *cough*] reports that the administration sponsored an “off the books” covert effort to fix the elections in Iraq to deny the Shiite religious parties a governing majority. The White House hailed the elections as a grand success, a free and unfettered expression of democracy. But according to Hersh’s intelligence sources, fraud was widespread on all sides. And the White House cooked up an off-the-books operation designed to help the party of acting Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a U.S. ally and former CIA retainer. It apparently worked. Allawi’s party did much better than expected. The pro-U.S. Kurds did better than expected. The Shiite religious parties were denied a majority. Despite this, al-Jafaari, the head of the Shiite Dawa party and a fundamentalist who spent a decade in exile in Iran, became head of the government.

The administration, of course, issued a formal statement denying any covert operation designed to rig the election. But the statement is worded carefully to deny only “any covert helping of individual candidates for office.” It doesn’t mention political parties. It doesn’t deny an independent off the books operation like that cooked up by the Reagan administration in the Iran-Contra scandals of the 1980s.

And if all the above is true it proves what exactly? That the U.S. government helped support a U.S. friendly party to help with the transition? Is that such a bad thing? But somehow I think that all this is just in Mr. Hersh’s mind. After all, we all know that the MSM would never make up stories to discredit President Bush. Don’t we?

And even if the White House spokesmen end up denying it all, who could believe them? This is the White House that dismissed as “ridiculous” reports that political guru Karl Rove was involved in an effort to discredit former ambassador Joseph Wilson by ousting his wife who was a CIA employee operating under cover. “This White House doesn’t operate that way,” we were assured. If any aide were involved, he or she would be dismissed immediately.

Now it is clear that denial was a lie. This White House does operate that way. Rove was up to his eyebrows in the effort to discredit Wilson. And the president’s promise to remove anyone involved is apparently inoperative. Instead of launching an investigation, Republicans who control the Congress have put party over country, launching a bizarre propaganda blitz to attack Wilson to distract from the White House lies.

This made me laugh out loud. Knowing all we now know about this non-scandal, how can anyone say that the White House, Rove and the Republicans in Congress has launched “a bizarre propaganda blitz to attack Wilson to distract from the White House lies”? Joe Wilson hung himself. The Senate committee and the British government have both come out and basically said that Mr. Wilson is a liar and that he has no idea what he was or is talking about. But I guess truth can not be handled by Mr. Jackson, so the evil Karl Rove must be behind it all. Hmm…ever notice that Karl spells his name with a K? I wonder….

This is a disgrace for President Bush and the Republican Congress, but it is a calamity for our country. We are mired in a war launched on false pretenses by an administration that, as our British allies concluded, fixed the intelligence to fit the policy. U.S. forces are mired in an occupation, which, according to the CIA, is generating recruits for al-Qaeda. The new leadership of Iraq is forging a close alliance with Iran’s fundamentalist rulers, our leading enemies in the region. Within Iraq, not surprisingly, a civil war is beginning, for neither Sunnis nor Kurds will accept fundamentalist Shiite rule.

Man, old Jesse is pulling every non-scandal out of the bag on this one. Ok, we are not mired in a war. Saying we are helps our enemies. I know he will be the first to demand how I dare question his patriotism. But oh well. Also, the British report has been pretty much dismissed as well. Once again, if you say something, it must be true. The hell with facts and the truth. It is too good to be true, so it must be true. Yes, our enemy is using Iraq to recruit new members, but guess what? They are blowing themselves up over in Iraq. Beats the hell out of them, oh I don’t know, flying planes into civilian targets here in the States. About the possible Iraqi civil war, if you keep harping on it and undermining our efforts, then yes, a civil war may be possible. Why not work with our government and our troops to ensure that does not happen. Instead you sit back almost hoping for bad news, hoping for a civil war, so that President Bush and Republicans will look bad and lose elections. Now who is playing partisan politics?

We desperately need wise and credible leadership to guide us though this catastrophe. But Americans are slowly beginning to understand that this president and his administration lack both candor and credibility. The craven and corrupt Republican Congress puts partisan politics over the nation’s security and insulates the White House from any public accountability…

Huh? Look Jesse, the day you actually are not a partisan politician yourself will be the day I take you seriously when you condemn the partisan politics of the Republicans. Can you show me one time you actually compromised on anything with the Republicans? Also, from everything I see, hear and read the Democratic Party is catering to its partisan base by condemning the war and still not understanding the true threat our country faces. Polls even show that Americans trust the Republicans more with National security.

… Our bitterly divided partisan political culture turns vital and difficult questions of war and peace into political spitball fights. Surely the young men and women at risk in Iraq deserve far better than this. Republicans control the White House and the Congress. Is there a profile of courage among them who will call this administration to account?

Again, watch that stone throwing at glass houses Jesse. Yes our men and women deserve better. They deserve to not be called Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot by the DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP at every turn. They deserve to be supported in the field. Not to be told that Mr. Democratic Senator “supported the bill before he voted against it”.

I have questioned this administration. I have problems with some of the laws that have been signed, mainly the latest Campaign Finance Law that sure seems unconstitutional to me. I am also upset that Republicans have been spending like drunken Democrats. I think Bush has not pushed hard enough for his judicial and other appointees. I think we need to be doing more to contain North Korea and Iran. I think we should leave the UN. It is ok to voice concerns with this administration. But you have to be honest about it. You also have to be grounded in reality, which unfortunately, most of the Democratic leadership is not.