If I'm a CEO of large, very profitable & well connected company trying to do the right thing for the company but fail, do the stock holder's fire the mail clerk or the secretary? Does the newly hired junior assistant have to cry "the devil made me do it", does the doorman have to stand in front of the board of directors? Does the phone operator need to scream in defense "the buck stops here". When the make or break decisions are to be made is it good common business practice to outsource that authority & responsibility to consultants that have conflicting interests in any & all outcomes? It's pretty obvious who should be held accountable & who's at fault but the hammerhead always falls far short of where it should. In the courtroom, if the guilty parties plead "we was just following orders sir" & the chief officers are all on paid vacation on the far side of the globe does that mean justice is truly blind...&...deaf...&...dumb & none have to play the part of the monkeys & step forward so that the rest of society doesn't have to speak, hear or see the truth? If this be the case wouldn't it be logical to conclude that the fighting sold..(out)..iers stand to be held accountable for their superior's policies & actions if it were to be found later in the world court that the US was guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes & violations of the Geneva Convention. While the grunt stands trial & takes the fall for the present administration, the High Command, the departments of Tits For Tats & Tots For Tits, the secure new branch of the Fatherland For Stupidity, the CIA, the NSA, the paid mercenaries & the hired contractors & all those others with their slight of hands that had an invisible backroom role in these crimes can, as usual, the true criminals keep their hands & boots clean while they wash their faces in the blood troops & their victims? The problem, responsibility & excuse will probably take a new change in course & be heaped upon the governments of Iran, Iraqi, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Palestine (not Israel, shit I thought that was spelled I's'not-real), hell, lets just blame the hole (in the desert) mid east, we've been more or less-Moorish looking in that direction since the Crusades anyway (oh, oh, acid flashback). Then we can add into the receipt for an unusual topping, Cuba, North Korea, Russia & China. Then just think & we'll turn our eyes towards those burning shores of Africa. We can wait them out at no cost & let them starve, rot with disease & kill each other off until they roll over & roll out a welcome mat & ask only for a swift & complete death & someone to sing "Lord, Remember Me " at their wake(UP) & at their burying place sing "We've Been Overcome". How exciting is all this? Talk about 'sport & play' & 'shock & awe'? Whoa, we are having a good time yet? Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Ra, Zeus, the Llama, the goats, the birds & the bees & the rest of the animal kingdom will see it our way (or else) & worship the terrorist's Almighty Dollar.

Reality check, am I really to far out there?

Barry,

burning at the Bush while pissing on the shrub