We’ve been in bed with the Isrealis so long, we’ve begun to adopt their tactics like two back-alley lovers each scratching their crabs. In the White House’s rhetoric towards Iraq, we have come awfully close to the finger-pointing and incessant blaming for past wrongs that mars every Israeli/Palestinian peace meeting.
Apparently, Bush has everyone in Washington ready to go to war. They are beating the war drums and drowning out any common sense with statements like this:
The goal isn’t inspections, the goal is disarmament,” Donald Rumsfeld said. “That is what Iraq agreed to do.”
Washington is beginning to mire itself so deeply into hypocritical proclamations and behaviors that resemble the attitude that made otherwise sane people commit the WTC attack. If Bush and his WarHawks continue this smokescreen of excuses and bellows of injustice, how long can we expect to have peace on our soil? When will the next attack occur?
There is an undercurrent in the grassroots of distrust for the Bush administration and that current is getting stronger. Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times reports from his travels around the US:
Don’t believe the polls that a majority of Americans favor a military strike against Iraq. It’s just not true…What is true is that most Americans are perplexed.
That’s where I stand. Sure, I don’t want to get blown up by a madman, but I also don’t want my president to be the madman blowing people up. As Friedman states, we can “deter” Saddam, what we can’t deter are people willing to take their own lives along with those of others. Suicide bombers are simply unstoppable.
That’s what no one in Washington or in the media seems to want to say. Suicide bombers simply cannot be stopped. So, why are we spending so much time, effort, and even these words discussing a country and man that we could simply make to not exist within days, when the terrorists and their brethren are still training and planning and plotting?
Bush seems to think he has won the “War on Terror,” but what he doesn’t realize is that he is not even on the right battlefield. He has been infected by this mindset that war equals power and he is totally intoxicated by it. We see him on TV actually smiling as he professes the need to “get rid of Saddam.” Like some cracked up syphilis patient, he can’t even read the speeches given to him:
There’s an old saying in Tennesse, it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee, too. Fool me once, shame on…you…Fool me twice, I won’t get fooled again.
I think this political STD is life-threatening. This country cannot stand up to a true onslaught of suicide terrorists. People will rise up in the streets against whatever they perceive as the closest cause of all the carnage. And that will be President Bush and his ham-handed meddlings in the Middle East. This ain’t just a case of the CLAP folks, this is serious.