Japan: Ride a Donkey into the Afterlife

Looks like Bush and his new brown poodle (or is it his new poodle, Brown?) are none too happy with the temerity shown by the Japanese parliament (see my recent post, Cooling The Executive) in not rubber-stamping the new "anti-terrorism" bill that would have to be passed by Nov. 1 (see updated story here) in order for the Japanese refueling mission in support of Afghan operations to continue unabated. Imagine the nerve of the upper house of the Japanese parliament, or DIET, in actually delaying a policy they do not support. They need to take a lesson from the brave Democrats here in the US and realize that just because you have the ability to stall, modify, or even kill irresponsible, self-destructive, internationally illegal legislation proposed by your executive branch, that does not mean that you should ever do so. I mean come on, just because a majority of your population (the reason you are in power) opposes kowtowing, so to speak, to the whims of a US president that is bent on a course of self destructive foreign policy that could very well be encouraged because of visions of a destined apocalypse, the horrors of which he will be exempt from by way of a "Rapture" that will see the disappearance of him and his kind from the doomed earth so that they may witness the destruction by the side of the creator of the universe (whom he claims to converse with), doesn't give you the moral authority to display an interest in the preservation of the country you have sworn to protect by the powers vested in you by the people of that country. See in order to accomplish that you need qualities like integrity, courage, determination, trustworthiness, principle, sincerity; you need to actually follow through on the promises you made that got you into office, something that the opposition party in the US obviously considers absurd.