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by Open-Publishing - Friday 16 December 2005
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Governments USA Peter Fredson

BUSH CONFESSIONS ABSOLVE HIM

By Peter Fredson

December 16, 2005

For several days I have purposely dialed into Bush Fundamentalists blogs. I wanted to check how his recent speeches went over with them. It seems that a few had become disappointed with his poor performance and unsatisfactory explanations of the war he started in Iraq. But after his speeches a few decided that confession was really good for the soul.

In fact, we might regard the U.S. as a large confessional, with GWB as a supplicant. When GWB said he “took responsibility” for the deaths of 30,000 Iraqis some fundamentalists thought he was then absolved of all complicity. All it takes is for Jerry Falwell or Billy Graham to accept the Bush confession and he is off the hook. All is forgiven. The Prodigal Son is embraced and Life can resume as normal. Thus some fundamentalists forgave Bush for anti-constitutional and illegal activities and took him back into their comfortable fold.

They regard that a few instances resembling truth will reassemble the President into a nice person. No one seemed to think that for a President to lie in the first place was unconscionable, dastardly, and a subject demanding regime change.

No one seemed to think that “accepting responsibility” meant “taking the blame.” Accepting responsibility is pronounced better than that. All blame is erased, all faults corrected. A fresh start can be attempted with never a look backward at out-of-date criminal activity. All torture and abuse, all surreptitious overflights, all secret jails, all indefinite detentions, all fake journalists, all deceptions, lies and misinformation magically corrected.

So under Bush 30,000 (perhaps more accurately 60,000 Iraqis got killed), but he says “It was worth it.” He says he would do it again. This “confession”, considered as a form of truth, is acceptable to fundamentalists. Case closed. Now he can hang up huge signs proclaiming VICTORY.

Now he can forget all the enormously gross violations of Iraq sovereignty and pretend that the Iraqis owe him thanks for destroying their country and making it a hellish place in which to exist with US troops pointing guns at their heads constantly, barking orders, tossing grenades, demolishing their homes and industries. Now all of the mercenaries, contractors and advisors he has quartered upon them may never be judged by any court.

Now we can forget that the Bush neocons planned to invade Iraq before Bush even was appointed President by a vote of his pocket Republican Supreme Court. Now we never have to assign blame anymore, because Bush has “accepted responsibility.”

Yes, Confession is a truly purging process, cathartic like an enema, and the angels can fly down and put an olive wreath or halo on the shining head of GWB. Whoever that may be.

Forum posts

  • Oh this country is doomed the vast majority of the public have been so dumbed down and brain washed that there like the deer in the headlight too satupid to move out of the way. Can anyone say roadkill.

    • Americans are not any smarter or DUMBER than anybody else...Only the INFORMATION you feed people
      from the ILLEGITAMATE mantel of the MEDIA and their PIMP daddies in the Military Industrial Financial Complex
      of Death dealing can really be DESCRIBED as DUMB. Do you really believe in the age of electronic communications
      that things as LEGACY and outdated as TV and NEWSPAPERS are going to hold sway for much longer.

      Do you think that as more Americans loose their jobs that they are GOING IGNORE what is happening to their
      friends and family... DO you think they are going to CONSENT to leaders like pencil brain and fruit rollup as their leaders.

      I think not --- EVEN the US in 1776 without anything but humans and their VOICE figured OUT the truth...

      SO if they think that taking away the INTERNET or some other form of modern communication is goiing to HELP
      them from the EVENTUAL TRUTH that will bring them to their distruction THEY are the ones that ARE DUMBED DOWN.

      b7

  • Well I certainly hope the American Nation will forgive Osama Bin-laden if he ever admits to instigating 9/11 . Then the rest of us can forget past ( old news) aggressions as the Americans are fond of telling their victims. But .......... I forgot..... Osama was innocent and the conspiracy is that all was instigated by the Bush Administration. Oh well.

  • Allright! Well spoken.

  • To the poster who said that incorrect information is being presented to the American public such that they are reacting to it and not that they any dumber or smater then others (sic)...

    What you are forgetting is that the information gatherers and presenters are from the American public... Your justification (if I may), does not hold true. Now if the presenters were some alien form distinct from the American public then I could see your reason. But the media is made up of members from the American comminity. They present information that is suited to the American public. They present information that the American public wants to hear.

    The American public has a deep, ingrained hate that cannot and will not ever overcome with any truth or fairness. It is completely hopeless. White America thinks of itself as the chosen and they will degrade anything that attempts to midigate this view. And the truth often does this — therefore they will never accecpt it. Look around you. Look at what is happenning and which direction the people are headed. It’s more violence and destruction for the Arabs and Muslims, I’m afraid.