Associated Press Writer, Alan Fram reported yesterday the following:
The Bush administration has told officials who oversee federal education, domestic security, veterans and other programs to prepare preliminary 2006 budgets that would cut spending after the presidential election, according to White House documents.
History teaches that civilizations ebb and flow like the tide. They ebb and flow due to an infinite number of influences and variables. It is natural in the affairs of humankind that what they build, will not last. Nature will eventually undo all that humankind has exerted such strenuous efforts to make permanent. The reason is that nature is in the core of humankind on this earth. The one and only hope of humankind to make anything permanent, is to conquer space travel and thus insure the continuation of the species long after this earth is a crusted cinder.
In a nutshell, Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld's defense as to why he tried to hide from the world and the Congress and the public, the horrid practices of interrogation being conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan was that he had no procedure or guideline to follow in reaching down into a criminal investigation of such abuses and bring forth information that would be damning in the eyes of the world, and to our efforts in our military engagements.
