Donald Rumsfeld & Dick Cheney & George Bush

Donald and Dick and George, are household names. We are sure to hear about them at least once a day. Yet, who are they? Are they scholars, princes, kings, or clergy?
Is their authority indisputable? Where did they come from? Donald and Dick are where they are from hanging around Washington and corporations. George is where he is by hanging around oil people and his father's friends. Do you think that they are looking out for our real interests? Do you think a copy of the United States Constitition and the Declaration of Independence is regular reading for these three men? When a military establishment is taken apart by a civilian who decides that "shock and awe" with high technology is the modern way to fight and win wars, is that what we have decided as a people? When the son of a rich oil man and an ex-president decides to fight a war out of some mesianic conviction encouraged by evangelical politics, is that what we have decided as a people? When daily strategies are created to deceive the American People and undermine our constitutional safeguards, is that democracy? When public relations persons wage a war against a political party, and a president of the United States stands by and watches the truth manipulated, is that the American way? Is the war in Iraq about oil and arms? Do we as a people feel the grief and loss of the Iraqi people? Do we care about the low opinion the world has of out imperial bullying? Have we lost our government to lobbyists and politicians whose day is spent avoiding saying things that might hurt her in an election year. Where is the truth? Where is idealism?
Where is compassion? Where is honesty? Where is courage? Donald and Dick and George must look in the mirror each morning. What do you think they see?