Sometimes, a man needs to rant. For beloved commenter Hotsauce, today is that day. We do like to be service-y, particularly if there is profanity and an abiding hatred of someone we don’t really like involved.

George W. Bush is a lying, draft-dodging, warmongering, piece-of-shit little douchebag. He and his cohorts used the fear and uncertainty that followed the tragedy of September 11, 2001 to dupe a good portion of the country into supporting the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation. He claimed it was to fight terrorism, yet he chose the one nation in the region that was not a safe haven for Islamic extremists (at least not until after he invaded it).

There are many theories as to why the idiot boy king chose to invade Iraq rather than go after Al-Qeaeda, and I’m sure it had nothing to do with the friendship and business relationship between his family and the bin Ladens. Some speculate that Bush invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein ordered the assassination of the Dubya Daddy, and Junior did it for revenge. Some say it was for the oil, some say it was because insecure little Georgie wanted a legacy.

I say it was because this pathetic little puppet was so beholden to those who helped get him into the position of the most powerful person on the planet (at least, it was before he got hold of the job) and, when they wanted a return on their investments, a war economy was the only way to give it to them. That, and the overpowering delusions of grandeur that have been spoon-fed to him since he was a spoiled, drunk-driving, draft-dodging, coke fiend of a cheerleader in his early 20s.

My son is currently at that age. He is at the age where he should be tasting the joys of life as a young adult, as George did. Unlike George, who managed to avoid any continents containing combat zones during wartime, my son is on a military plane on his way to Iraq.

I won’t go into the back story, other than to say that my son enlisted voluntarily, and serves honorably. I am extremely proud of him. I just wish that he was risking his life for a more worthwhile cause than Dubya’s “legacy” or favorable balance sheets for his war machine cronies.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al, have managed to chuck this country of ours into a handbasket and send it on its way south. They did this because they wanted war: a war that would enrich their coffers and those of their cronies. They did it at the expense of our nation’s future and its youth. I’ve complained about it before, but now I vow that I will do whatever is in my power to insure that these war criminals are brought to justice, and that their ilk are never put in such positions of power again.

And God help them is my son comes home with so much as a scratch on him.

If this gets me on a few more “lists,” so be it. My new philosophy is that if I’m not on some new list every month or so, I’m not trying hard enough.