April 24, 2006
Okay, We Know Already, Bush is Not a Dog That Learns New Tricks!
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
Well, Bush is not a dog that learns new tricks.
In the last couple of days, in response to an outcry against nuking Iran and a near military revolt of the brass against Rumsfeld and the failed executive branch leadership in the war with Iraq, how does Bush respond?
First, as hundreds protest in Palo Alto, California, he meets privately with a think tank (the Hoover Institute) that promotes attacking Iran. Then he announces that even if the Iraqi government pulls itself together (which it won't really, just in name only), Bush isn't planning on pulling any U.S. troops out. (Because, of course, it's all about the oil and permanent U.S. military bases.)
Meanwhile, our "Godfather" Vice-President Cheney found a new hobby besides shooting people who get in between his shotgun and a bird; he took a nice little nap while the Chinese President was visiting.
And wasn't that visit by the Chinese President -- who represents a country that makes half the cheap stuff in Wal-Marts and has leant America hundreds of billions of dollars in money to cover the Bushevik national debt -- a scream! I mean, at the very moment Bush was voicing some platitudes about more freedom being needed in China, a woman protesting the persecution of the Falun Gong followers in China gets up and shouts against their torture, imprisonment and execution by the Chinese government.
How does Bush respond to this act of exercising First Amendment rights in America? Well, he has the woman hustled out of the ceremony, charged with a federal crime, and -- for the first time in memory -- actually apologizes for something. He tells the Chinese President he is sorry that the woman marred their meeting.
So, let's get this straight, a woman who protests on behalf of the freedom of followers of a Chinese religious/philosophical movement is vilified, manhandled and charged with a federal crime for speaking out in America, while Bush politely reads a PR statement about the need for more freedom in China?
Say what? George Orwell is smiling somewhere.
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS