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It’s not funny!
by Don Nash, Unknown News
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June 8, 2004
I had intended to write a hilariously funny piece
about George Bush and his antics as President of the
United States of America ... but I couldn’t.
I went back and
reviewed all of the articles, news stories,
commentaries on the subject and instead of laughter it provoked an
imminent sense of dread.
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I have maintained an
extensive file on Bush and the esteemed members of his
administration, since he was first installed as King
by Justice Antonin Scalia and his cohorts in judicial
comedy. That the Supreme Court circumvented our
Constitution by installing Bush, should have been
everyone’s first clue.
It has been Bush’s practice to govern by Executive
Order. Occasionally, he ropes Congress into rubber
stamping some ridiculous legislation that is so
technically oblique, as to be undecipherable. With
Congress being held in the Republican camp with a bare
majority, passage of almost any fool and harebrained
idea is assured. I would present to the reader, the USA PATRIOT Act* and the Medicare bill to illustrate my
point about ‘technically oblique’. Both pieces of
legislation are for the most part, complete legal mud.
Can’t see through it, can’t understand it.
The Bush administration is adept at governing by fear.
Examples would include 9/11/01, Homeland Security, and
the ever changing ‘security threat level’ index.
Bush’s pals in the corporate media world, pounded the
visual scenes of the destruction of the WTC into our
collective minds and that could only be compared to A
Clockwork Orange.
Over and over in a relentless
barrage of carnage and commentary that drilled the
dreaded al-Qaeda connection into the very soul of
every American. Fear the al-Qaeda, fear the terrorist
Islamic extremist, look at what al-Qaeda has wrought
on America, and without one shred of proof -- none,
nada, zero, and still none. Well, what about the
intelligence? And that would be the very same
intelligence that brought us the weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq.
Iraq. This is one of the great questions that faces
all of humanity, today. Bush’s plans for Iraq started
long before 9/11/01, and that is public record. If the
secret panel that was chaired by de facto Dick Cheney,
on energy and energy strategy for the new American
century is ever brought to light, Bush’s plans for
Iraq might make some terrifying sense.
9/11/01 became the
convenient excuse to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, test
drive some great new military toys, test drive the
PATRIOT Act, and detain a huge number of “enemy
combatants” for the torture experiment.
It’s just not
funny. That Iran becomes the cream filling in the
Afghanistan/Iraq cookie, seems to be, not a coincidence.
The outbreak of the Iraq war was a visual delight
that made the Fourth of July look like a piker
picnic. Shock and awe or blitzkrieg, and why split
hairs over definitions? Iraq as a 45-minute imminent
threat hardly holds any water when there are no
weapons of mass destruction. No nuclear weapons either,
although Joseph Wilson’s wife falls into the weapons
category, and she was certainly used to weapon Mr. Wilson.
It’s not funny. The United States of America used
weapons that had been treated with uranium, cluster
bombs, napalm, kidnapping of innocent Iraqi women,
midnight ‘dope raids’ on Iraqi civilians, and I
haven’t even gotten to the torture stuff at Abu Ghraib
prison and several other prisons in Iraq and
Afghanistan and Cuba. Fallujah and the U.S. Marines,
Saddam Hussein in Kurdish captivity that is
theatrically produced to make the U.S. Army look like
the “good guys”, and the list goes on and on.
No, it
just not funny.
Bush lied to America. Cheney lied to America. Rice,
Powell, Rumsfeld, and all of their underlings lied to
America. So did the Department of Agriculture, the Department
of the Interior, the Department of Education, the
Environmental Protection Agency, the Central
Intelligence Agency, the Department of Justice -- and
this stuff isn’t just little ‘white lies’. We are
talking high crimes and misdemeanors. Impeachment-grade lying. Lying to Congress, to the United Nations, and
to the world. It’s not funny.
George Bush wants to be "re"elected as President of the
United States of America. It’s just not funny. It is
downright dangerous -- to America and to the world.
Bush is responsible for the murder of thousands of
Iraqi civilians, the depletion of the Treasury of the
U.S., and the current instability around our world.
Any way you might care to slice it, it is just not
funny.
*The USA PATRIOT Act: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.
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© 2004, by the author.
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