The fictitious party branding that President Bush and his cronies sold to the American people in 2001 with the title of morality and peace was immediately replaced with a terrible reign of “religion” and war. While the union of morality and peace is congenial; the union of religion and war is a paradox, and as we have all witnessed over the last seven years the solution of it has been sheer hypocrisy.

The Bush Administration and now congress alike have displayed no sound judgment; their plans no consistency of parts; and a want of consistency is the natural consequence of a want of principles.

They have created the curious spectacle of an opposition to terror against a country without a cause against us.   If they were serving as doctors, prescribing medicine as they practice politics, they would have already poisoned their patients with destructive compounds.  My stomach and my pocketbook aches, how about yours?

There has never been two things more opposed to each other than Bush’s philosophy of war and “religion;” and yet, in the double game this leader had to play, the one is necessarily the theme of his politics, and the other the text for his poorly spoken yet crafty sermons.

Though hypocrisy can counterfeit every virtue, and become the associate of every vice, it requires a great dexterity of craft to give it the power of deceiving.  Our President, a man who trips over his own lips at every period and exclamation point has utilized the media with such mastery and illusion and must be given proper praise and recognition for at least this much brilliance, despite his obvious idiotic mastery of the English language. 

However, a painted sun may glisten, but it cannot warm. For hypocrisy to personate virtue successfully it must know and feel what virtue is, and as it cannot long do this, it cannot long deceive. When an orator foaming from the mouth for war breathes forth in another sentence a plaintive piety of words, he may as well write hypocrisy on his forehead.

The President’s most recent attempts to plunge this country into a new war with Iran, merits not only reproach but indignation. It is madness, conceived in ignorance and acted out in wickedness. Both his head and his heart are partners in this crime.

As his administration continues to neglect punctuality in the performance of a treaty, his poor planning and considerations have caused and inflamed the desire for more war by the terrorists against our unconstitutional occupation on their turf.  It is those terrorist monsters that negotiate by the sword—they seize first, and expostulate afterwards; and the President and our federal leaders have been laboring to barbarize the United States by adopting the same practice as these heathen nations, and this they call honor? Let their honor and their hypocrisy go weep together, for both have been defeated. This present Administration thinks it is too moral for hypocrites and too economical for public spendthrifts and yet they are the later of both.

A man the least acquainted with diplomatic affairs must know that to neglect punctuality is not one of the legal causes of war, unless that neglect is confirmed by a refusal to perform; and even then it depends upon the circumstances connected with it. The world would be in continual quarrels and wars, and commerce would be annihilated should other nations follow in our footsteps and act for the sake of punctuality. 

If America would rather continue taking on the characteristics of our heathen enemies, by striking first and then talking later, instead of becoming an example to the old world of good and moral government and civil manners, then her Independence, instead of being an honor and a blessing, will continue in becoming a curse upon the world and upon herself.

The conduct of these terrorists now occupying Iraq, though unjust in principle, is suited to their prejudices, situations, and circumstances.  As a people, they are neither commercial nor agricultural, they neither import nor export, have no property floating on the seas, nor ships and cargoes in the ports of foreign nations. No retaliation, therefore, can be acted upon them, and they sin secure from punishment.

But this is not the case with our United States. If she sins as the terrorists do, she must answer for it as a civilized entity. Her commerce is continually passing on the seas exposed to capture, and her ships and cargoes in foreign ports to detention and reprisal. An act of War committed by her in Iraq has produced a War against the commerce of our nation.  Oil prices continue to soar, food prices rise, and unemployment grows daily.

Therefore, in every point, in which the character and interest of the United States is considered, it would not become of her to set an example contrary to the policy and custom of civilized powers, and accept only those practiced by the terrorists, with that of striking before she expostulates.

But can any man, calling himself a legislator, and whose constituents suppose that he knows something of his duty, be so ignorant as to imagine that seizing Iraq would finish the terrorist affair or even contribute towards its end? On the contrary, it has clearly made the situation even worse!

Iraq is torn with war and chaos reigns in this state of anarchy.  The oil deposits there are of no value to us or the rest of this world because the wells are limited and/or shut off, which our occupation has neither prevented nor helped. Iraq in our possession, by an act of hostility, is consequently of no value to the western people as a place of stability.

Just because Iraq could be taken and defeated quickly required no stretch of policy to plan, nor a spirit of enterprise to effect; it was like marching behind a man just to knock him down: and the dastardly slyness of such an attack has only stained the fame of the United States. Where there is no danger cowards are bold, but now the danger has become immense the damage irreversible.

We must suppose that the people of Iraq, to whom the oil reserves serve as their chief source of commerce understand the circumstances of that commerce better than a man who is a stranger to it; and as they have shown no admiration of the war-whoop measures and military occupation instituted by our own federal President, Senators and Governors, it becomes presumptive evidence they disapprove and want us gone.

This is a new mortification for those war-hungry and money grubbing politicians and even their new “liberal” replacements now occupying congress; for the case is, that finding themselves losing ground and withering away in popularity in their own country, both parties still refuse to let go of the affair in the vain hope of rooting and reinforcing themselves in a renewed popularity; without perceiving that it was one of their own ill judged hypocritical methods in politics, that whether the war was perceived as a success or a failure the events at home would be the same.

But hypocrisy is a vice of upbeat constitution. It flatters and promises itself every thing; and it has yet to learn, with respect to moral and political reputation, it is less dangerous to offend than to deceive.

To the measures of administration, supported by the firmness and integrity of the majority in Congress, the United States owes, as far as human means are concerned, the preservation of peace, and of national honor. The lack of confidence which the people now exhibit towards their government and their representatives is only rewarded with their continued failure to act according to the wishes of these very masses.

The democrats that were reinstated into the legislature with much urgency; thought so necessary for the prosperity of the United States by its majority, which could have been redeemed some by leaving Iraq, yet their failure to act has only sown seeds of discord in its place, and hostilities and false accusations have been preferred by them now, instead of accommodating the will of the American people.

Have any of the ministers of the American churches meditated on these matters? Why have they laid aside so silently, as they should not have done, where are their electioneering and vindictive prayers and sermons.  These cries must return so that peace is preserved, and commerce, is once again without the stain of blood!

In the pleasing contemplation of this state of things the mind, by comparison, carries itself back to the early days of uproar and extravagance that mark the career of the current administration, and decides, by the well studied impulse of its own feelings, that something must have been wrong all along. Why is it that America, formed for happiness, and remote by situation and circumstances from the troubles and tumults of the world, has become plunged into the world’s vortex and contaminated with its crimes? The answer is easy.

Those who are now at the head of affairs, both democratic and “republican” are apostates from the original principles of the revolution accomplished so many years ago. Raised to an elevation they had not a right to expect, nor judgment to conduct our affairs sanely, they have become like feathers in the air, and blown about by every puff of passion and conceit.

Candor would find some apology for their current conduct if a need of better judgment was their only defect. But error and crime, though often alike in their features, are distant in their characters and in their origin. The one has its source in the weakness of the head, the other in the hardness of the heart, and the coalition of the two, describes the current Administration and Congress.

Rather, if no injurious consequences arose from the conduct of the Bush Administration, his recklessness might have passed for a minor error and been permitted to die and be forgotten. The grave is kind to an innocent offense. But even innocence, when it is a cause of injury ought to undergo an inquiry and as we have seen he and his cronies are far from innocence.

During the last seven years, our country, governed under the current administration, has been kept in continual agitation and alarm; and it has tried with all of its resources that no investigation would be made into its ill conduct, it has entrenched itself within a magic circle of power.

Violent and mysterious in its measures and arrogant in its manners, it affected to disdain information, and it has insulted the principles that raised it from obscurity.  The country has been put to a great expense. Rampant loans, taxes, and occupying armies have become the standing order of the day.

I have not entered into a discussion over these grave injustices because I want to gratify my own resentment, or encourage others to do the same. It is not in the power of man to accuse me of having a persecuting spirit. But some explanation needs to be offered. The motives and objects respecting the extraordinary and expensive measures of the current Administration must to be known. If the public have been unjustifiably imposed upon by the executive appointment of unconstitutional laws, it is proper they should know it; for where judgment is to act, or a choice is to be made, knowledge is first necessary. The conciliation of parties, if it does not grow out of explanation, partakes of the character of collusion or indifference.

There has been guilt somewhere; and it is better to fix it where it belongs, and separate the deceiver from the deceived, than that suspicion, the bane of society, should range at large, and sour the public’s mind as it already has accomplished.

The military measures that were proposed and that continue to carry on during this administration, are clearly not for the defense of our country against foreign invasion. This is a case that decides itself; for it is self evident, that while the war rages in the Middle-East, very few foreign allies have spared even one man to fight against the supposed “terrorist threats” so much closer to their own territories then our own.  The plotters themselves have gotten embroiled into confusion and have become enemies to each other.

But how can our people who, for so many years, have been fighting the battles of the rest of the world, for the liberty of foreigners, surrender their own freedom here at home.  Should our people just stand quietly by and see their own liberty undermined by apostasy and overthrown by intrigue? Let the tombs of the slain recall their recollection and the forethought of what their children are to be revived and fix in their hearts the true love of liberty.

If the Bush administration can justify its conduct, give it the opportunity. The manner in which President Bush seems to be disappearing from the government renders an inquiry that much more necessary. He has given some weak accounts of himself, lame and confused as he has been, but if he really thought that it was necessary to do this, shouldn’t he have rendered an accurate account to the public. We have a right to expect it of him. In that repeated account, he says, that the war in Iraq was a necessity in the war against terror and for our national security and foreign interests, much against the evidence now observed.

What Iraqi terrorists does Mr. Bush mean, and what was the commanding necessity to which he alludes when no weapons of mass destruction ever existed?

What do any of his dark apologies, mixed with accusation, amount to, but to increase and confirm the suspicion that something is wrong? The poor administration and approval of this war was only possessed by fantasized foreign official information, and it was only upon that information communicated by him publicly or privately, or to Congress, that Congress acted; and it is not in the power of Mr. Bush to show, from the condition of the belligerent powers, that any imperious necessity called for the war and its related expensive measures connected to his Administration.

I know that several members of both houses of Congress believe that an inquiry, with respect to the conduct of this Administration, should be readily examined. The convulsed state into which our country has been thrown would be best settled by a full and fair exposition of the conduct of this crooked Administration, and the causes and object of that conduct. To be deceived, or to remain deceived, can be the interest of no man who seeks the public good; and it is the deceiver only, or one interested in the deception, that can wish to preclude further inquiry.

The well founded suspicion against this Administration is as it should be, that it was plotting to control the Middle-east oil reserves, and that it spread alarms of terrorist invasions in our own homeland that had no foundation, as a pretence for raising and establishing an occupying military force as the means of accomplishing that object.  We were never attacked by Iraq they were not foolish enough to take such steps, we unjustly attacked them!

The crimes committed by the mad man Saddam Hussein were against a foreign entity he ruled with no ties to our own people.  But isn’t it actually a much greater crime for a President to plot against a Constitution and the liberties of the people here at home, than for an evil dictator to plot against his own people in a far off foreign land? Consequently, George Bush is accountable to the public for his deceiving conduct, as the individuals under his administration rabble-roused us into surrendering our own freedoms under the guise of a falsely created story of terror involving nuclear plum clouds rising across our nation if we refused to act.