Until just recently, all of the people looking at my blog have been Americans, but someone from Ukraine checked it out.  Thank you, and hello.
     I haven't written in seventeen days.  I've been eating a lot of junk food, which may slow me down.  My birthday came and went, rich food was available.  I like Pringles and Cheetos way too much.  Even so, when I stepped on a scale a few days ago, my weight was fourteen pounds below what it was in December.  I don't remember exercising since then.  My overactive brain, perhaps, sweats off extra fatty layers.  If one could actually lose weight this way, Chris Christie would fit inside a Volkswagen Beetle by now.  Imagine the mental juggling he has to do to maintain his governorship, deal with the Bridge Scandal, and run for President.
     His top aide, David Wildstein, pleaded guilty to supervising lane closures on the George Washington Bridge in 2013.  Christie insists on his ignorance of the dickish move.  Tom Brady says he had no idea the footballs he used in the last AFC Championship game were under-inflated.  Powerful people seeking advantages never have any idea what's going on to benefit them.  You walk by a tree one day and the next morning there are fungi at the base of the trunk.  Who knows how such a thing could happen?  And anyway, it's pointless to litigate the past.  The Iraq War started twelve years ago.  Why talk about it anymore?  What does Iraq have to do with the 2016 election? 
     Well, even Megyn Kelly of Fox News Channel asked Jeb Bush a relevant question: "Knowing what you know now, would you have invaded Iraq?"
     This could be seen as a jab against Jeb Bush's older brother.  Perhaps he felt defensive when he responded, "Yes, I would have, and so would've Hillary Clinton by the way." 
     Jeb Bush got hit by severe criticism from Republicans who don't want their great white hope sounding like a fool who can't learn from the past.  He backtracked later on, assuming, I guess, we didn't hear him answer Kelly's question.  I don't think he's stupid.  I think the question gave him pause.  Wheels turned in the Bush gray matter, he lost a few ounces thinking about it, and uttered something plausible-sounding to himself, dragging Hillary Clinton with him.  Senator Clinton did vote for the Iraq War Resolution, basing her vote, like scads of other senators and congresspeople, on the "intelligence" shown to them by the Bush administration.  Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.  He was working on creating more.  He sought to develop nuclear weapons.  Wile E. Coyote has a long history of dealing with Acme Explosives.
     In a way, it's not fair to ask someone who wasn't in the Senate or the House what they would've done if presented with the Dick Cheney-approved false evidence of Saddam Hussein's evil intentions.  President Obama has often said, proudly, that he would've voted against the Iraq War Resolution.  Well, he wasn't in the Senate, then.  There's no way of knowing how he would've swung on that one.  For a lot of American politicians in the years 2001 to 2003, it was prudent to agree with the prevailing attitudes.  Senator Edward Kennedy was once pulled aside by the TSA as if he was a threat to national security.  A mistake, or a dickish move?
     The pose by Republican presidential hopefuls when it comes to their party's role in destroying much of the Middle East, its people and cultures, lacks genuine feeling.  George W. Bush's foreign policy is no longer popular, even though the 2016 presidential hopefuls on the right were all for it from 2001 to 2009.  They just don't like it now because Bush and Cheney's violation of the Middle East turned into such a clusterfuck.  Jeb Bush is particularly vulnerable here.  He says now that he  wouldn't have voted to invade Iraq, yet his foreign policy advisory team consists of many of the same fuckers who advised his older brother, including his older brother!
     What the fuck, Jeb?  What are your plans for the rest of the world?  Whose children will die?
    
                                                                          Vic Neptune