The Bush Crime Family presses its unprecedented rampage of law-breaking, strong-arming the U.N. into further fig-leafing of the Iraq occupation

Man, when these guys put their heads

together, watch out for flying sawdust.

Even once you think you've accustomed yourself to the reality that every word that comes out of every mouth fronting for the Bush regime will be a lie, and that every deed done by a regime deed-doer will break every law the scumbag can manage to trample, the capacity for astonishment is never lessened.

Nobody else seems to care, but over at AlterNet, Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland are jumping up and down trying to get us to notice that:

On Tuesday, the Bush administration and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pushed a resolution through the U.N. Security Council extending the mandate that provides legal cover for foreign troops to operate in Iraq for another year.

The move violated both the Iraqi constitution and a law passed earlier this year by the Iraqi parliament -- the only body directly elected by all those purple-finger-waving Iraqis in 2005 -- and it defied the will of around 80 percent of the Iraqi population.

It seems that "a group representing a majority of lawmakers in Iraq's parliament -- a group made up of Sunni, Shiite and secular leaders" wrote a letter to the Security Council objecting in the strongest possible terms to "unconditional renewal of the mandate" and seeking "clear mechanisms to obligate all foreign troops to completely withdrawal from Iraq according to an announced timetable."

We don't know if [the letter] was even read by members of the Security Council, but we do know that it, like previous communications from the Iraqi legislature, was completely ignored.

James Paul, director of the Global Policy Forum, which follows the United Nations' intrigues, said that while "there's concern in many delegations at the United Nations about what is going on," Security Council delegates "are under instructions from their governments to lay low and pass the U.S. resolution." According to Paul, the move "shows the despotic power of the U.S. government to force everyone to knuckle under, no matter how much the law is violated."

It was an egregious assault on Iraq's nascent democracy, as well as its supposed "sovereignty," and can only encourage more bloodshed. Yet the commercial media has so far ignored the story entirely, reporting only that "Iraq" had requested that the mandate be renewed.

The real picture is dramatically different. Just as some congressional Democrats in Washington have tried desperately to limit Bush's ability to maintain troops in Iraq forever -- inserting various conditions into the endless series of supplemental spending bills that have financed the occupation -- and been thwarted by the administration, so too has a majority of Iraq's parliament come out against renewing the mandate without attaching conditions to it, including a requirement that the United States set a timetable for withdrawal.

Oh, there's lots more to the story, if you've got the stomach. It hardly seems to matter, though. Once again the lying thugs of the Bush regime present us with a fait accompli, and it never seems to matter that they're always wrong. Of course being a Bush supporter means being at all times at war with every facet of reality, not to mention humanity, decency, and sanity. Lie, thuggify, obfuscate, Liebermanitize, and when all else fails, its just bombs away!

I understand that the Bush regimists probably all have unassailable insanity defenses to present. Is there a chance that any court, any jury, any sentient being, would seriously entertain the crackpot notion that "Big Dick" Cheney or Chimpy the Prez harbors even a single cell of sanity anywhere in his toxic carcass?

But insanity defenses are presented in court, in response to appropriate criminal charges. Isn't it about time to get these thugs into court and out of running the country--or the world?

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