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Vol.8.3: Is this a great country. . . or what? Part III

by James A. Clapp
©2004, UrbisMedia

©2004, UrbisMedia

Well, consider this: we live in a country that impeached a sitting president for having consensual oral sex, and will likely do nothing to a president who is responsible for his troops forcing Iraqi prisoners to perform degrading sexual acts.

 

G.W. Boosh, selected president of the most powerful nation on earth, just “don’t like it one bit” when he is confronted with photographs of American soldiers torturing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners.   My, my, my, aren’t we outraged, now.   Of course, if you are a nearly aphasic and illiterate dolt, who admittedly even has his one-page briefs read to him by Miss Condi (why can’t I get the image of Butterfly McQueen reciting in front of a pretzel-eating “Massa Rhett” out of my mind?), his surprise may not be so disingenuous.

 

Then, quicker than you can say “democracy,” the temporizing, the not-quite-an-apology apology, a la Condi (“sorry this happened,” “regret that mistakes were made”), and then cut to the commercial about how “this doesn’t reflect the behavior of all our troops” and this is “not what America is all about,” and what a great job Don, De-Fens (“well, you know, free people will do some crazy things”) Rumsfeld, is doing.   Yeah, right Don.   Then, the next day, a little more of an apology-apology, but to King Abdullah (are we at war with Jordan already?).   Like his co-conspirator, Rummy, he “sorry” – sorry he got caught.

 

They are artful dodgers, these drawling Reb-publicans, always with the deflections, the spins, the putting the best face on the most abhorrent photographs.   We likely would never have known were it not for the arrogance of the perpetrators taking their “war photos,” and a whistle-blower, that these atrocities no longer had any plausible deniability.   They have had some success in controlling images of returning dead and wounded, but the Torquemada tactics (or what that great humanitarian, Rush Limbaugh, equated to “fraternity hazing” and “blowing off a little steam”) was too tempting not to preserve for posterity.

 

The irony is that this cabal of arrogant chickenhawk bumblers, who have been unable to prove any of their rationale for trashing a country they don’t understand and can’t seem to put back together, will continue to portray opponents to their policies as injurious to the morale of the troops they have now put in more peril if they are captured.   Their counterintuitive policies and incompetent administration will make more terrorists than they claim to destroy.   They will continue the recite the mantra that we are safer with the removal of Saddam Hussein thanks to the sodomizing of his former subjects.   And they have brought shame upon our nation before the entire world.

 

I’ll take libido over ego every time.   We miss you, Mr. Bill.

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©2004, James A. Clapp (UrbisMedia Ltd. Pub. 5.9.2004)

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