By Mark David Blum, Esq.

America’s greatest enemy turns out to be the son of the former President Ronald Reagan. The boy, Michael Reagan, continues to publish essays are arguments which in sum and substance, “The goals of the Democrats and both al Qaeda and al Sadr insurgents are the same: the defeat of the United States in the war in Iraq.” Like most modern day Republicans, young Master Reagan cannot separate democratic debate from his zeal for absolute tyranny over a nation.

Reagan has a long history of blaming everybody but himself, his father, his party, and his ignorance for our Nation’s current situation. A year ago, he published two opinion pieces at the Human Events Online website which give pause to his connection to reality. In one article, published June 9, 2006, Reagan accuses Democrats of behaving like Sunni Insurgents. “I've been wondering why there is something familiar about the behavior of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, and suddenly it dawned on me that we have our own similar insurgency right here at home -- it is called the Democrat Party.”

Again, last year, another Reagan Junior Biblical tirade appeared. He preached, “the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes tells us tells us there's a time for everything, including a "time to love and a time to hate ... a time for war and a time for peace. There is also a time for rage, and in this time of war that time is now.”

As out of his mind as he appears, on one issue, Michael is correct. There is a time to rage and that time is now.

It may never come to pass that I make my mark on the world by sliding across a Saturday Night Live stage in my underwear singing badly to some world-class air guitar playing. Michael Reagan got his start that way.

Little Mikey Reagan has lost his mind. At a minimum, he has the memory of a gypsy moth. That may be understandable given his history and training at the knee of the man who brought us Iran Contra and the biggest busted budgets in history. Reagan’s government, including Oliver North and John Poindexter was filled with criminals who ignored the law and the will of Congress. Their CIA sold drugs in Los Angeles.

Michael Reagan blindly backs today’s Republican leaders, who along with Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney go way back and are the same party as Nixon. Many Nixon era cronies are still hanging around the White House and Fox News. Their attitude of greed and self interest has never been cleansed. Back in 1994, they entered into a Contract with America. They took the high moral ground and over the past ten years, have sold their agenda to the electorate. Now five years into the Bush Administration, what we see that the disease that infected the Republican leadership has never been cured. It just has been repackaged and we were suckered into it. Michael Reagan is its newest carrier.

For the record, the war is over. We won the war in Iraq. We beat the government, destroyed the military, and forced a change in policy and politics. We are done there. Rebuilding and policing is not our job and I resent every dollar and drop of blood being spent.

What seems to outrage young Mr. Reagan is how Democrats do not want to be as ignorant and blind as Reagan’s forefathers. Remembering well the lesson of Viet Nam, there is only such much a military option can accomplish. Our mere presence now is eroding and destroying whatever good may have come from the initial invasion.

Yet moreso outrageous, according to Reagan, and his reason to rage, is the horrible deaths suffered by two American soldiers. For him, the dominant emotion is rage and bloodlust. He then bemoans why the rest of American is not spitting mad and clawing for flesh. Life the rest of his party, Mr. Reagan does not understand the American heart and soul.

We are not a people who rage. When two Americans are brutally murdered, we don’t seek revenge. We mourn, we seek the wrongdoer, and if possible, narrowly punish. Trapped in an adolescent mindset, all Reagan can do is scream for blood. “It also shows why they must be eliminated from the face of the earth. They are a species with which civilized mankind cannot co-exist. During the Civil War when Gen. T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson was asked how to deal with the enemy, he had a simple answer: "Kill 'em; kill 'em all".”

Like his father too, young Reagan tends to forget how we poison ourselves with the backsplash of our own arrogance. Had we fought this war with the same high principles and ideals, more Americans might be home safe tonight. Instead, we abandoned our integrity and got down in the mud. How can people now complain that we are being treated the same way?

Has Reagan forgotten about prisoner abuses, torture, and murder coming out of Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. American soldiers are being charged, confessing, bragging, and being convicted of committing sins that we believe are unacceptable by our standards.

The prisoner abuses we witnessed were not accidents or aberrations. They were willful acts perpetrated intentionally. Our President planned it. Intelligence Services executed it both in Cuba and in Iraq. They brought in Chinese interrogation “experts” to show us how to get it done. Lawyers trained and guided the President how to end-run the law and avoid prosecution. Congress treated it like a big joke. The media hid the story. American doctors participated in the torturing of prisoners. One foolish lawyer suggested it was OK to torture, we just need “rules” for it. The previous Attorney General said the Courts have nothing to say about it. We the People accept the Nuremburg Defense.

To most of the world, our behavior has been criminal. Our own government has declared it criminal. A soldier just went to prison for 3 years for shooting a badly wounded Iraqi. Lyndie England and her gang are all gave up substantial amounts of freedom for their sins.

I understand the rage. The rage of September 11th, the Rage of Nick Berg, the Rage of Madrid, and 100 Tel Aviv bombings. I understand the Rage of war and the stress of combat. The only rule of war for the soldier is to kill the enemy; period. I get it. My heart hurts for the more than 2,500 American soldiers now dead in Iraq and the families of the near 20,000 wounded. Hundreds if not thousands more still stand to die or be wounded and my heart bleeds for them too.

The ends do not justify the means. Our government knows information gathered from these abuses cannot be used in a criminal prosecution. It is obviously not their intent. They clearly want this information for prosecuting the war. The War on Terror has changed the scenario where the bad guys are no longer criminals, they are military opponents. Right or wrong, this is the current U.S. policy.

Little Michael Reagan should shout out his concerns to the survivors of the Malmedy Massacre at the Battle of the Bulge. He should discuss his attitude with those who walked the Bataan Death March. It matters a lot how we treat people; whether they are civilian criminals or military targets. They are human beings. We are not the ones who build the camps, interrogate by torture, and openly violate the law for the purposes of War. Our history is to the contrary. It would be considered “Un-American”. "Men who take up arms against another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings responsible to one another." (General Order 100 of the United States Army Field Manual of 1863).

Forget the enemy. Let him die. Let him suffer pain and angst ten thousand fold for what he has done to us. He made us kill him and for that, there is no mercy.

Michael Reagan, you are the enemy. Your ideology is one of cowardice and childish uncontrolled emotional outbursts. The party with which you stand is corrupt beyond measure. Instead of being the voice of the next generation, you have become yet another voice of the regurgitated and reconstituted Nixon White House.

Leaving Iraq NOW is not cut and run politics. It is “what’s next” politics. Leave the new Iraqi government to do what it does best … be in charge of the Green Zone. The rest of the country is just not our problem.

It certainly is not enough of a problem for more Americans to be brutally tortured.

Michael … are you really that afraid?

Finally, if we really check the history books, we can find the origin of the insurgency in Iraq. It took the U.S. Forces about a week to conquer the entire country and assume control over all of its land. Things were actually coming together and I think I can recall at least one flower being tossed at conquering American forces when they arrived.

Then Paul Bremer committed an unspeakable act. It was an act so heinous that had it been done in the United States, there would have been a civil war. He unilaterally took it upon himself to shut down a fledgling Iraqi newspaper. The hypocrisy of this action is obvious. We went into Iraq for, among other lies, to bring the blessings of Freedom to a People who seemingly don’t want it; but who accepted it at the point of a gun. Then, we attacked one of the cornerstones of freedom … a free press. We shut down Al Sadr’s newspaper. The rest is history. Before the newspaper was closed, there was no Al Sadr to worry about. Then Zarkawi showed up. Now, there are about 30 different groups.

To all of them, Mr. Reagan, Americans are no longer the good guys. We gave up the high moral ground at Abu Ghraib and showed the Iraqis that in some ways, we do not treat them better than the predecessor government. Democracy is not an end in and of itself; it is a process to a greater good. Michael Regan, what is the greater good of Americans dying in Iraq and those at home, being forced to sacrifice all their rights?

Face it, George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Republican politics have killed more Americans in Iraq than Osama Bin Ladin and Sadaam Hussein killed in the United States.

Yes I rage. But I rage against those who cost America so dearly. Bring the murderers to justice, I say ... all of them.

To call your own patriotic neighbors “Sunni Insurgents” shows how very little Republicans care about justice. They need this war, any war. They thrive on having an enemy so as to create the “use versus them” mentality. Republicans will never let this war end. Without it, they have nothing else to offer the nation.