by James Glaser
January 10, 2005

First off, President Bush is still in his first term, so don't be counting down the days, because he hasn't even had his 50 MILLION DOLLAR INAUGURAL PARTY yet. Also, he has to repeat the Oath of Office

Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

According to the Guardian Newspaper in Great Briton, Bush's inauguration will be "one of the biggest parties in American history. It is going to be the most expensive, most security obsessed event in the history of Washington DC. An army of 10,000 police, secret service officers, and FBI agents will patrol the capitol for four days of massive celebrations that some critics have derided as reminiscent of the lavish shindigs thrown by Louis XIV, France's extravagant Sun King."

Many Republicans have wondered why this amount of money can be spent on Bush's party, while at the same time American troops continue to die in unarmored vehicles in Iraq. Last Friday seven more soldiers lost their lives to a road side bomb north of Baghdad.

Now we can all debate if George Bush's PATRIOT ACT defends the American Constitution or if Bush's locking up of American citizens with no charges, no court appearance, and no right to legal counsel furthers American freedom. I guess I always assumed that the President was supposed to defend our country too, but letting 8,000 illegal aliens come across the border EVERY NIGHT is not defending America. We have more illegals coming here than Iraq has crazies coming into that country and they have open borders. Bush now talks about making the millions and millions of illegal aliens here, legal.

Those 8,000 are a conservative estimate and on top of that we have tens of thousands of legal aliens coming every year too.

Now let me get back on topic here. President Bush has told all of us and the world that he can not think of even one mistake he has made in the past four years. The man thinks he is flawless. Well on January 7th, 2005 President George W. Bush rejected all warnings to the contrary from prominent advisors and went out on a limb and said that elections in Iraq this month would lead to peace even if there was a low turnout among minority Sunnis. Bush's advisors say that the elections "could precipitate a slide into civil war."

So here we have George Bush pushing on with this election claiming that it will bring peace. According to the Financial Times, "Bush told reporters in the White House that it was not "constructive" to worry about the size of the turnout on January 30. He said 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces appeared "relatively calm" an acknowledgement that Baghdad had joined three of the main Sunni provinces in lacking security because of the insurgency." It has been reported that George Bush will not allow any of his staff to tell him any thing negative about the situation in Iraq.

One Washington pundit wrote, Iraq's election will be like having South Dakota and Montana voting for President, but not New York, California, Florida, and Texas. Even the international groups that were going to monitor this election are afraid to enter Iraq because of the violence, yet the President claims that this election will bring peace.

So, write this down, this claim by George Bush that the Iraqi election will bring peace to that country, because if he is right, the man will remain flawless, at least in his own mind, but, God Forbid, if after these elections Iraqis and Americans are still getting killed and maimed, then George will realize he has made his FIRST mistake.

I should say that George "Could" realize that he made his first mistake. Some how I can imagine that in his mind, George will remain flawless to the end of this second term too.