A case of the pot calling the kettle black. I am still waiting for Bush 43 to apologize for promoting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage in his 2004 State of the Union address. Then there is the business about the wars in the Middle East and the irresponsible income tax cuts that took place at about the same time. More than 14 years after the US invasion of Iraq, the Middle East remains an unstable part of the world, millions of people have been displaced and an unknown number have been killed. Although most Americans were untouched by the wars, there is a large protest memorial (put up by a local landowner) across from my local commuter train station. The hillside display is filled with thousands of crosses and other religious symbols, each one marking  a member of the US armed forces who was killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.