The Absolute Delusion of the Boy King Coward [View All]

[zulchzulu]

I watched Bush's speech tonight and tried to see why I have absolutely no respect for him. What I saw and heard was a fleeting assault of so many lies and half-truths and propaganda that it would take a week to parse through the asinine lies.

Bush referred to the "people of Iraq" numerous times where we are to see them as "allies".

These "allies" have been bombed by this country with more firepower than WWI, WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam combined. These "allies" have their country's infrastructure destroyed and they are lucky to have water that doesn't poison them or electricity that lasts more than 6 hours a day. We stopped counting how many Iraqis have died and are dying years ago. We redefined "sectarian violence" where car bomb attacks and shots in the front of the head are not counted as such.

The sputtering drivel from Bush about "capturing or killing the enemy" ignores the notion that those people in most cases are Iraqis, our "allies". It seems that Bush has finally learned what a Shiite and a Sunni are if only to use as metaphors in some madhouse cartoon world of the "good guys" against the "bad guys". It's a shell game he can play with the ignorant, the uninformed and the terminally loyal followers of his death screed.

As I watched him read the teleprompter better than usual (which isn't saying much) and then seeing him read the email from the poor parents of a dead soldier who apparently swallow the college dropout Sean Hannity's "freedom isn't free" meme, I thought about how much they wanted to rehearse that moment for effect. It was such an obvious show of faux-sincerity that even the mere idea that he understood their loss was well beyond his comprehension. Their dead son was now used as a prop for more dead sons and daughters to be thrown into the Freedom Isn't Free meat grinder.

Mostly, I was waiting for someone to show up behind the window behind him in the Oval Office and grab his speech and throw it into the fireplace. Then some law enforrcement people would crash through the window and arrest him for being a war criminal and a treasonous enemy of what America truly stands for. That was when I knew it was time to turn off the TV. But I kept it on.

I pray in my own way for those that are serving over there in this madness. They just saw how nothing is going to change, albeit a brigade or two of over-exhausted, under-protected and soon to be thrown into the trash set of soldiers. This AWOL Boy King Coward, who has made it a point to try to take away our own freedom, seeks only to destroy what his soft hands can render. We are just to sit idly by and let it happen.

God* help America.


* In the spirit of yin/yang/Great Spirit