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The Very Hungry Caterpillar was reputedly the president’s favorite childhood book. Since books often influence the course of people’s lives it might well have been that a tale about the rapacious larval stage of an insect could have influenced Mr. Boosh’s seemingly insatiable appetite for Middle Eastern territory.
But these days very hungry George’s imperial ambitions seem to be provoking his gag reflex. Nevertheless, with his characteristic childlike innocence (and IQ) he continues, undaunted, on his mission to plant democracies with 1000lb, “Bunker Buster” bombs in the various “evil” states of the Middle East. Like most of his imperial predecessors fates, hungry George has little left other than that gosh-darned resolve to “stay the course.” Die-hard Republicans just love that trait, far more than they do reason and intelligence, which those damned liberals are always using to give “aid and comfort” to the enemy. Indeed very hungry George seems to be in a bit of a bunker of his own making, holed up with his neo-con buddies behind a crumbling wall of lies and deceptions, as commissions and exposures of his foolish and failed policies close in on him.
So the imperial ambitions of the erstwhile isolationist continue to fade, unlike the photos of Abu Ghraib, the faces on the “honor roll” of the dead soldiers on nightly newscasts, the depressed visages of his generals appearing before commissions of inquiry, and the sly smile of the sleazy Ahmed Chalabi, who unlike hungry George, could not be installed in office by Antonin Scalia. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Hungry George, could have listened to good counsel, to minds far more acute and capable than his cabal of neo-cons. And now, doubtless wholly unanticipated by his simple mind, the Iraqi proto government might wish to first flex their “democratic” muscles by ejecting him and your armies from their lands. Had he known anything about democracy in the first place he would have known that it is not always a cute and compliant butterflies that emerge from the chrysalis of freedom.
You might be a very hungry caterpillar, Mr. Boosh; but you bit off a lot more than you could chew. Now, on the 60 th anniversary of D-Day, for you to equate your imperial ambitions with the liberation of Europe, is to appropriate that noble cause to justify your pernicious and failed war on Iraq. You oughta choke on that pretzel, Mr. Caterpillar.
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©2004, James A. Clapp (UrbisMedia Ltd. Pub. 6.6.2004)