Irony is apparently one of Bush's finer qualities.

On November 9, Bush hung a medal around the slack, immobile neck of former heavyweight boxing champion--and the most famous war resister in US history--Muhammad Ali. Ali was one of a bevy of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony. Bush, while Karl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld chuckled behind him, said, "Only a few athletes are ever known as the greatest in their sport, or in their time. But when you say, 'The Greatest of All Time' is in the room, everyone knows who you mean. It's quite a claim to make, but as Muhammad Ali once said, 'It's not bragging if you can back it up.' And this man backed it up.... The real mystery, I guess, is how he stayed so pretty. [Laughter.] It probably had to do with his beautiful soul. He was a fierce fighter and he's a man of peace."

When will we say "basta" or ENOUGH! to this Orwellian reality? We are all partially complicit in this disaster. May God bless all forms of life- we are all long overdue to ask for forgiveness from our fellow women and men.

No Iraqi ever left a Black family to die on the roof of their home during a flood- but our President sure did.