BUSH ARROGANCE IS NOT LEADERSHIP

OUR ARROGANT LEADER

By Peter Fredson

November 9, 2005

George Bush has a firm grasp on fantasy. He revels in the wonderful work that prayer could do for Katrina, the people who drowned because of his inaction, and the fine way in which his lengthy vacations in Crawford have contributed to cultural conflict and disillusion. While his guitar fondling may not ever win any awards, his rap speeches concerning staying his failed course in Iraq, and his dastardly repeated violation of Iraq sovereignty are certainly in line with the neocon plans to rule the world.

His subtle plan to grab total power by applying martial law to chicken flu outbreak did not pass unnoticed like his previous subtle plans to rob old people of their retirement income, pensions, insurance, Medicare and other amenities so that his crony corporations can become fabulously wealthy. The Republican Senators must have been sleeping, as they did not rise to his call for totalitarian power, ruling with troops in the streets and detaining unlikable people at his imperial will.

He will have to be satisfied with his excellent plans for torture and abuse at a dozen locations around the world. His penchant for lying and secrecy combined this week as he declared loudly that torture was never used, and when he refused to answer a question about secret CIA prisons. Some Republican Senators seemed willing to convict people for saying that George has secret CIA prisons as such leaks are very serious, except when Scooter and Turd Blossom and Dickie Boy are concerned. Quite a moral dilemma, eh?

Evidently Abu Gharib, Baghram and Guantanamo are simply vacation spots for Muslims that George is giving hospitality. No torture, ever, nope, maybe pranks, but nobody that George knows ever recommended torture, or abuse, or even harsh treatment. That wouldn’t be Christian, or even Republican. Unless it was legal, and George decides what is legal. Sure, there were a couple of deaths, but in order to make omelets you have to break some eggs. And after all, Lyndie was court-martialled, so everything should now be all smoothed out.

As far as having secret jails in foreign countries in which to hold anyone he pleases without supervision but with impunity and arrogance, it is plain that he and his cronies believe they are above the law, or rather, that they can make or break any law they wish to violate.

The Republican Senators during the time of Bill Clinton went ape over an intern polishing his Slick Willy. No security breach was involved, no secret plans revealed, the country was not in trouble, but Republicans spent several years and millions of dollars to impeach or castrate Clinton.

Now when a security breach is involved, with official secrets revealed in the case of Joe Wilson’s wife, the Republican Senators and our immortal leader have closed ranks to shield Scooter, Turd Blossom and another Tricky Dick, calling the dirty work simply “misunderstanding,” of no import, like a prank.

Today some Republican Senators are highly outraged that someone has leaked information that Bush arrogance has again surfaced in the installation of secret bases in foreign countries for the purpose of detaining anyone Bush thinks might possibly have committed something or other. It is strange that violating the constitution and international harmony and American values is of little import when Bush commits the violation, but that someone who blew the whistle on the violation of all legal norms must be found and severely punished. This hypocritical double-standard when applied to our immortal leader is dastardly, unworthy of our democracy, but perfectly suited to crony arrogance.

Bush’s troops are still happily killing nasty Muslims so they don’t get the idea that they can come to Crawford, Texas with their advanced technology and make crop circles or spread terror and fear like butter on Bush supporters. By all means, stay the course. The problem is that no course was ever set; no course appears to be in mind except to keep on doing what isn’t working. After all, he is Commander in Chief and can order troops to go to their death without anyone calling him to account. He never has explained what he is doing in Iraq so far from Crawford, except to mutter “9/11” over and over and over again.

Besides, everything is progressing very well in Iraq with what Bush prefers to call Sovereignty, everything is on schedule, all is going smoothly, except that Bush doesn’t want to make a schedule because our enemies might take advantage of it.

He did try to push the idea over to his enthusiastic charismatics that God told him to do invade Iraq, but lately that hasn’t been getting good grades from some parsons who dislike the idea that God starts wars in preference to peace.

He will have to be satisfied with having stolen the oil of Iraq, the building of huge permanent military bases and an enormous embassy in one of Saddam’s luxurious palaces. He will still have to send Condi out periodically to lecture peoples of Syria, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and any others he decides has useable resources on the virtues of freedom and democracy before invading them.

His plan to attract Muslim insurgents to Iraq in order to murder them so that they will not come to bother him in Crawford is working well, except for the death of a few thousand of our troops, but Bush has lots more where they came from and can always get more from Jerry Falwell volunteers.

His plan to stack the Supreme Court deck in favor of his religious beliefs is doing well, despite that tiff with his own supporters over his secretary whose talent for Constitutional Law can never be established. But Bush’s denial of any litmus test seems to stretch the limits of credibility, much as his explanations for the invasion of Iraq did.

His credibility to keep CIA secrets was also sorely tested when Turd Blossom and Scooter showed their ability to shield him from criticism by destroying other people’s reputations. But our George was able to weasel his way out of what seemed to be statements that he would fire anyone compromising security. With George you never know when he is serious, or simply playing word games. We know that his loyalty to frat-brothers exceeds his loyalty to any old man-made constitution or to Presidential Pledges intended only for ceremonial occasions.

His plan to lessen drug costs seems never to have taken root but he did try to keep Americans secure from bad drugs by banning cheaper drug imports from Canada, thus saving drug companies a fortune. And any of his plans to save drug costs will only add about 20 percent to the present cost, but the wealthy can easily afford it, and the poor don’t matter anyway.

He is doing well with photo-ops to try to restore some of his credibility after Katrina. There are countless opportunities for him to roll up his shirt sleeves, pat little black boys on the head, put his arm around the shoulders of a fire-man, or send a glass of water to some poor suffering person in a coma.

This lets people know he really cares, although he doesn’t seem to care how many people he has to kill to get into or out of Iraq. Shock and Awe, death and destruction, are all part of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED strategy, in which no one is held accountable by a sycophant Congress and his own investigating committees made of his own friends who always seem to avoid mentioning his name when revealing huge lapses in diplomacy, intelligence, secrecy, economics, or any other action in which he might accidentally have become involved.

Why they protect a petulant, irritable, spoiled, irresponsible frat-boy is beyond my comprehension.

His plans to deal with chicken flu will surely have him sending his Chicken Hawks to make vaccine or nostrums at enough profit to keep them smiling into old age, and who cares if the vaccines actually work? Prayer by the Bush team with heavenly choir will be used as an alternative.

Meanwhile he will happily strut, swagger, smile widely and smirk on stage with fine snarky rhetoric, and will make frequent reference to 9/11 in the heroic way he attacked terror personally, which keeps everyone in the nation perfectly safe because he prays frequently. And he will keep a course which he never plotted or murder a few thousand more infidels in the process. None of his friends and cronies seem to object, as long as the profits tumble into their bushel baskets, and they personally do not have to shed blood or make any sacrifice.

One wonders how many billionaires will emerge from the reconstruction of the Gulf Region and how many people with decaying homes will have them taken off their hands by wealthy contractors?