Guaranteed Healthcare

  During a speech from the White House, in October, 2002, President Bush remarked, "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof the smoking gun - that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."

  In March, 2003, as WMD inspectors were leaving Iraq, U.N. spokesman Hiro Ueki said, ”I think all the inspectors and support staff have done our best."  Basically, they investigated the hints and allegations, and came up empty-handed.  

  It's been five years since President Bush declared, "mission accomplished" in Iraq, yet the fighting continues.  While he's tilting at windmills, the cost of war has created a sinkhole, with "clear evidence of peril" that is causing our public health and safety infrastructure to implode.  Speaking of shock and awe, how many credible witnesses and how much clear and convincing evidence will it take, before our "pro-life" President and his posse of right-winged politicians recognize the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have died in this country as a result of insurance company WMDs?

  In November of 2007, during his acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize, former WMD Chief Inspector, Dr. Hans Blix, made some compelling remarks worth noting.  "In the case of Iraq much of the evidence invoked was what has been termed ‘faith-based’. Indeed, some of it was even ‘fake-based.’ The inspection reports of the UN inspectors that I headed (UNMOVIC) and the IAEA were ignored. My inspectors carried out some 700 inspections of some 500 different sites, dozens of them proposed by the intelligence organizations, we had reported no finds of WMDs. Quite to the contrary, we had expressed doubts about some of the evidence that had been presented."

  There's no faking this claim: the insurance WMDs comprise the mushroom cloud that hangs menacingly over our healthcare system. The fact is that we are at ground zero, in the people's war for healthcare. The UN inspectors would find evidence and smoking guns all over the place. The perps are not hiding with them in caves in another country, either.  They're right here, out in the open, for all the world to see.     

  On December 19, 2007, a bereft, yet courageous Hilda Sarkysian, made the following exhortation,”Focus on here. The war is here you guys. We have a war here."