David McGee: O'Reilly continues to peddle right-wing agenda

Bill O'Reilly is a tool of the right-wing fearmongers who helped get us into our current economic and military messes. The Baby Alex commercials are effective because they rightfully point out that ordinary people, parents and children will bear the costs of the miserable mismanagement of our country by the neocons who now control the Republican Party. John McCain has flipped and flopped into their hands and, if elected, would only continue the Bush neocon policies.

The "Islamic fascism" O'Reilly blathers about is just another name for the so-called "War on Terror" designed to create fear so Americans like little Alex's mother will support the never-ending war in Iraq and the coming war in Iran.

Alex will likely know his share of dictators as he grows up. Our government ignored dictators in Latin America, the Middle East and South Africa as long as it advanced our economic interests. So it will be in Iraq where ExxonMobil and Chevron, BP, Amoco and Royal Dutch Shell will be the beneficiaries of the "democracy" we installed. Alex will likely see more blood for oil.

With the war in Iraq costing us nearly $39,000 a minute, let's hope O'Reilly is right about the "nutritious meal" Alex will supposedly get when he awakens. The odds are increasingly against him as 12.6 million American children live in households lacking access to enough food.

Twenty-eight million Americans will receive food stamps this year. Food stamps will be received by one in 10 in Ohio and one in six in West Virginia. And the hunger rate is getting worse as food prices skyrocket. Despite his perspicacious mother's protest, Alex may well be drafted through poverty into the military.

I guess O'Reilly didn't understand either the geopolitical or the domestic implications of invading Iraq.

David McGee is a Huntington resident.