philosophicWHAT? "There's an old...saying in Tennessee...I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says Fool me once...(3 second pause)... Shame on...(4 second pause)...Shame on you....(6 second pause)...Fool me...Can't get fooled again." --George W. Bush to Nashville, Tennessee audience, Sept. 17, 2002, MSNBC-TV
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politics COMMENTthe october surprise(?)September 22, 2002 Ready for war? It should start sometime in mid-October I figure. That would be to greatest political advantage for the resident, or so he thinks. It will be the October Surprise that won't surprise anyone at all. I don't know about you but I for one am not convinced that Saddam Hussein is the greatest threat that civilization currently faces. Nor do I believe that he is the greatest threat that this nation currently faces. No, the greatest threat that this nation (and arguably the entire world) now faces, resides much closer to home. It is the current administration in Washington D.C. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Ashcroft... parents around the world use those names to frighten their children off to bed and quite effectively I'd imagine. In two short years Bush et. al. have isolated the United States almost entirely, including from all our friends and allies. They have given people around the world every reason to hate our guts and then told them they'd better get used to it because they can't do a damn thing about it. We have become the Evil Empire and George Bush has assumed the Emperor's throne (with a little help from the Supremes of course). Remember in the movie Star Wars how the Evil Emperor arrogantly boasted of the invincible might of his Death Star? How he and his technological killing machines would rule the Galaxy with an iron fist crushing all those who would dare oppose him? Well take a few minutes and read The National Security Strategy of the United States of America that Duhbya just released and see if its not the same speech, just less eloquent and more verbose. Then think about what happened to the Empire and the Death Star. No empire is invincible. Over the past several months Resident Bush has morphed his shape-shifting "War on Terrorism" into "Let's Murder Saddam Hussein". He's used the most unbelievable, incredible, mind-boggling, mind-numbing rhetoric to sell this idea and now he's going to go ahead with it, like it or not. We're going to go murder a whole bunch of people and a whole bunch of our brave sons and daughters are going to die in the name of... in the name of oil, power and an old family vendetta. You know it, I know it, the whole world knows it. It's not about terrorism, it's not about weapons of mass destruction (if it were, we'd be invading North Korea next month, not Iraq) its about oil, power and finishing Daddy's business. If anyone tells you its not, be very careful because they are clearly delusional, more than likely republican and could be dangerous. In a speech at a recent fund raiser, Duhbya described our enemies in the Middle East and what he believes we need to do about them, like this, "They hide in caves. See, this is a different kind of war. And part of my responsibilities as your President is to remind people about the realities that we face in America. One of the realities is, is that these people hide in caves. They find the darkest cave they can find, and then they sell -- send their youngsters, or young folks to their suicidal deaths. They don't have tanks, they don't have munition factories, they've got determination and hatred in their hearts. They've got suicidal killers. And so we've got to run 'em down, no matter where they are, one by one." (You can read these and more of the Emperor's Deep Thoughts right on the pages of the Official White House website.) He said that with a straight face like it actually made sense or something. I've got to hand it to the guy. He can say utterly moronic, assinine things with such conviction that other morons go right along with him. They say things like, "Yeah kick ass!" and, "It's Clinton's fault!" The most terrifying thing about the whole mess is that Duhbya actually thinks its that simple. They hide in caves. The Middle East is the most complex mix of history, politics, religion and 100 other factors anywhere on Earth and the village idiot has a plan to solve it. "Hey y'all, let's go invade Iraq!". There are a least a thousand ways this could go unbelievably wrong. Like what if Saddam instead of trying to fight back against the Death Star simply launches all he's got at Israel? Or what if China, seeing that the Evil Empire is busy, decides to bring Taiwan back into the fold. Or what if India and Pakistan decide to settle the Kashmir problem once and for all? Or what if... ... we go into Iraq, murder Saddam Hussein and several thousand innocent Iraqis and find out he doesn't have weapons of mass destruction after all. Oops! or should I say, "Surprise!" © Copyright iriguchi 2002 |
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