Quagmire

That is the word which can sum up the time President Bush has been in office. There has been a buffet of items which you can select from to define this presidency: The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Abu Grahib, illegal domestic spying programs, ties to Jack Abramoff, and the Valerie Plame incident.

The most recent items are the domestic spying program, if you have a phone whose service is provided by AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. all the phone numbers you have dialed are now sitting in a database inside the NSA. Only Qwest communications did not voluntarily hand over information.

Now the person who was heading the NSA at the time this plan was implemented has been selected to head the CIA. Typically this position is held by a civilian, but Bush has appointed another one of his “yes men”, Gen. Michael Hayden. Meanwhile, the Justice Department has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the NSA refused to grant its lawyers the necessary security clearance.

Right behind this is the situation with Iran, and its desire to develop nuclear capabilities. According to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad they simply want the technology to build power plants, however if you ask President Bush they clearly have intentions of developing nuclear weapons. It has been rumored that a non-nuclear explosion which was set to take place in Nevada was to knock out the Iranian nuclear facilities. "The planned Divine Strake experiment will not be conducted earlier than June 23," said Cheri Abdelnour, spokeswoman for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at Fort Belvoir, Va.

Who is going to be crazy enough to want to take over the presidency when Bush is done?