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Paranoids Have Enemies, Too
A BUZZFLASH READER
CONTRIBUTION
by Andrew Mancini
Perhaps it's just me, but I have taken very little solace lately with the implosion of the Bush Administration. After five years of bluster and swagger, with our Commander in
Chief playing dress up while Cheney and Rove lurk ominously in the background, pulling the strings, it appears that most of the American people are finally fed up with the lies, the corruption and general, all-purpose stench emanating from the Bush crowd.
So why am I not ecstatic? Is it because in three years, like dear ol' Dick Nixon, we won't have George to kick around any more? No -- that's not it. I can hardly wait until he leaves. In fact, I'll volunteer now to help Laura pack the U-Haul for the long ride back to Crawford.
No, my greater fear is something that gnaws at the pit of my stomach, a dark sinister foreboding that wakes me at night in a cold sweat. Three years?! Do you know just how much damage this cast of incompetent buffoons might inflict upon us in three years!?
The Emperor's, oops, the President's speech on Wednesday at the Naval Academy was more of the same old song. The day before, our esteemed Secretary of Defense announced that he had solved the problem of the Iraqi insurgency -- we won't call them insurgents anymore! Taking a page from Rummy, from now on, all of my kid's C's in school are deemed A's! As Ross Perot used to say, "problem solved."
But seriously, these people just don't get it. The war has been a disaster, and by all accounts, we're no safer now than we were before 9/11. Billions spent, millions displaced, thousands killed, and yet no one inside of this crooked cabal will admit to any mistake, any miscalculation. The hand is firmly fixed to the rudder, and eyes are cast westward toward Syria and easterly toward Iran.
The Syrians are routinely pilloried for exporting terrorists to Iraq and the Iranians are apparently feverishly at work on -- what else -- WMDs. It seems to me that we've heard this somewhere before, haven't we? But I do not for a minute doubt the willingness of the Bush Administration to unleash an attack on either or both, under some Gulf of Tonkin style pretext, in order to feebly attempt to rally support at home for their tired efforts in Iraq.
The usual rabid partisans would coalesce once again, and perhaps the mainstream media would once more be duped. After all, if you loved "shock and awe" on your TV, just think how much you'll enjoy a mushroom cloud over Tehran. This shameless bunch of war profiteers, to whom nothing is sacred but the almighty dollar and corporate welfare, appears ethically capable of countenancing any action, any behavior, so long as it can be wrapped in the flag and delivered as a sound bite to Fox News for round-the-clock play.
Three years is hardly a long time in the entire context of history. But in Bushworld, it may be an eternity.
Andrew Mancini
BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
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