When will Bush be held accountable?

Richard A. Brown, Pahrump

Friday, July 4, 2008 | 2:02 a.m.

Now that the news is finally out that the Iraq war had nothing to do with terrorism, but much to do with the Bush-Cheney consortium giving Big Oil a chance at carving up, for its profit, Iraq’s oil, isn’t it time for the Senate and the House to get together and hold this unholy administration accountable for trashing our Constitution, ignoring global warming and raising prices on gas and food to the point the country is heading for bankruptcy?

No other government in history could have gotten away with spying on the citizenry and ignoring its needs like this bunch of robber barons.

While George W. Bush was asking the Saudis to pump more oil and making it look as if he really cared, he ignored the Iraqi oil that he said was going to pay for his war. That’s the $500 billion tab he passed on to us.

Even if the Saudis were to pump more oil, who would refine it? The oil companies haven’t built a new refinery here since the ’70s and now they won’t because they, too, fear global warming. Their profits are so high from their speculation and increased gasoline prices that they are not going to bother to make our lives easier.

FDR said we have nothing to fear but fear itself, but I think we have to fear our government, because nobody has been accountable for the rape of the United States.