REASONED HATRED 2
By Peter Fredson
November 16, 2005
Several weeks ago a fellow blogger remarked that I showed "unreasoning hatred" of George Bush. I then wrote an essay showing how I used reason to identify my hatred of Bush and specified his intolerable religious chauvinism.
Now I will give additional reasons why I think George Bush is the very worst President the U.S. has ever had, and that this country is in enormous danger of becoming a variant of fascist theocracy.
First and foremost: I have many specific instances when George Bush lied to the entire country. He did it deliberately, knowingly, habitually, with malice aforethought. Not innocently, not from being given wrong information.. but from his neocon philosophy in which deceit, lies, misinformation and spinning the truth are means to the desired end of world domination for the elite of the world.
He joined others like Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Wolfowitz, et al, like-minded cowardly warhawks who will not themselves shed any blood for their country, but urge other young people to do so for the sake of profit. To this end preemption, stealth, bullying, secrecy and violence towards any opposition became the signatures of the Bush administration.
They joined a coalescence of White Supremacist Christians, corrupt corporate executives, and quid-pro-quo politicians to form a "vast right-wing conspiracy" in the interest of crony capitalism and fundamentalist charismatic theocratic-minded evangelical interest groups led by televangelists. Together they control a vast amount of gullible supporters, cash, votes and impressive media sources, enough to determine most elections of apathetic voters.
In concert, they were able to suborn the entire Republican Party to their firm will, and also pulled off the remarkable task of reducing Congress to becoming a branch of the Oval Office. The Oval Office in turn has become an adjunct of Jerry Falwell's Methodist-Baptist Christian Church.
This took very impressive organization, which is now capable of turning a fairly good democracy into a semi-fascist theocracy. Its fervor is every bit as dangerous to the world as the Islamo-fascists that Bush has lately ranted about. There is little difference in theocratic strategy, means or appearance. Absolutism knows no compromise to destruction of opposing views. Osama, Saddam and George are birds of a feather in absolutism.
Now several years have flown by and despite all the Bush secrecy some details have emerged to scrub off some of the whitewash that the Bush cabal smeared over details of their daily tactics. For instance:
We know that despite all protestations, denials, and misinformation, the Bush team planned some conquests soon upon taking office. We have the Downing Street Memos, despite all the earnest strivings of Republican Senators to deny any validity or importance to them. We also have the less-than complete Commissions on 9/11 to show that the Bush team was less than heroic or competent before or during the disaster. The commissions took great pains to avoid mentioning Bush or attributing any blame to him.
We also have dozens of speeches in which Bush egomaniacally links himself to some sort of heroic action during 9/11, successfully stupefying his avid fundamentalist supporters. There is not the slightest doubt but that Bush has exploited 9/11 to the maximum, and beyond, and that he equally exploits patriotism, flag-waving, and religion anytime he does something stupid.
Most of his speeches now are carbon copies in which the words "democracy" and "freedom", which occur very frequently, never mention the death and destruction that Bush has unleashed on Iraq. I find it difficult to understand logical meaning in his Newspeak, in which brutal occupation by murderous troops who smash down doors, kill women and children at random and use all modern explosives to destroy people's homes and lives, is referred to as "democracy" and "freedom."
I find it difficult to understand any Newspeak meaning to the Bush use of "sovereignty." Occupation under the cannon, with troops on every street corner, shooting at anything that moves, accompanied by abuse and torture may be "sovereignty" in Bush and Rumsfeld logic but the puppets that they installed to "govern" excite no enthusiasm for constitutional application.
I find it difficult to understand the use of phosphorus by U.S. troops against living beings to be compassionate, although Bush followers seem to think that any means are licit to their divine ends.
The country is fairly well agreed that action against Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan was necessary. His training camps opposed Bush bullying. But most of the country says that Bush left Osama escape, for several reasons, and suddenly shifted his violent attention and enormous propaganda machine against Saddam Hussein.
Most of the country, except for Christian Fundamentalists who think killing Muslims is good at anytime, say that Saddam had no connection to 9/11, was not an imminent threat to anybody, had no WMD's, no pilotless planes to bomb Crawford, Texas, and no missiles which could reach the U.S. But the Bush team, deliberately, day and night, went on every media available and danced their war dance, clashing sabers and wielding retribution, with Hallelujahs and "Praise God" slogans, urging war at the earliest possible moment.
George, and Dick and Colin, and Condi were excellent propagandists and suckered the entire country with their warmongering rhetoric. Even Goebbels would have been impressed with the ease at which an entire country was taken in by a deliberate power grab.
Most of the country now agrees that Bush had no entrance plan other than direct assault with Shock and Awe, maximum fire-power, tanks, planes, cannon, grenades, gas-masks to kill as many Muslims as possible. He certainly had NO exit plan.
The reason is that he planned to stay in Iraq to exploit the oil, make permanent bases from which to invade Syria and Iran, and construct the world's largest embassy from which he could bully the entire Middle East. He still lies daily about this and his reasons also fluctuate daily. He never explained what his "noble motives" were.
Bush was successful in murdering many thousands of Iraqis, and his fundamentalist supporters smirk as they believe Christianity will be able to win this new crusade of Bush. That's what they are all about.
Bush supports their loony beliefs as he depends on them for enormous cash and votes. We might mention that regardless of what it is that Bush really believes, his fundamentalist believes he will help bring about some Rapture, or Apocalypse and they will all go to some unspecified place to sprout wings and sit on clouds forever while enjoying watching the heathen infidels scream their lungs out in agony just below them.
Bush has been successful in creating terror, in recruiting terrorists by his presence in Iraq. He has a Catch-22 there. HE cannot leave until he kills all the terrorists, but by remaining there he is creating more terrorists. He doesn't know this.
The Bush claim of "compassionate conservative" is one of the BIG lies of his campaign. He has the compassion of an alligator. He killed thousands of innocent Iraqis with his Shock and Awe, bunker-buster bombs, cluster bombs, helicopter gun ships, tanks, cannon, grenades, and didn't even bother to count the dead.
Someone counts the U.S. dead, but not Bush. He doesn't want people to take pictures of flag-draped coffins as it might block some of the flow of cash from lobbyists who are "sensitive" to public pressure. He doesn't like to see photos of wounded, mangled and maimed veterans. That's bad for his image and for cash flow.
Nor does he like to see pictures from Abu Ghraib, but pretends that they never happened, or that only some corporal had a crazy idea about getting information.
You know, it's trivial, maybe like a prank. But it might work, so install a dozen secret C.I.A. jails in different countries, against all legal norms, where Bush people can have fun raping, beating, abusing, shocking or keeping people from sleeping, under indefinite secret detention, to illustrate what Bush calls his "American Values."
He doesn't care. He says it is all "worth it." He would get many more troops killed as long as he doesn't have to shed any blood personally, nor even shed any tear or attend any funeral. Bush and company are masters of creating distractions from their incompetence.
He never told troops going to Iraq they were going to seize the oil wells for Millennium Corporation, nor that his corporations would make billions of dollars from war operations. Instead he prates about "his brave soldiers" while his cronies count their stocks and bonds and watch their bank accounts swell beyond all dreams.
"Cannon fodder" have always made money for military industrialists, with little accounting, no responsibility and no danger to themselves.
Bush had a deck of cards representing terrorists, and every time he killed one, he would take out the card and throw it away. He figured that when the deck of cards was gone, all the terrorists would be gone too. Does that sound stupid?
This is only one of many reasons why I believe that Bush is an egomaniacal, petulant, irresponsible, irritable, irrational and dangerous person. Other people think he is a living dry drunk.
Why anyone would want to "stay the course" when there is NO course, it was never set, it has failed, but yet Bush says he must keep on it. Stupidity characterizes the Vacationing Rancher from Crawfish. Most of the country now wishes he would take a permanent vacation and stop those incessant Karl Rove type speeches to captive audiences.
They sound remarkably like one made in George Orwell's Ministry of Truth. In fact, for the past 2 months all of Bush's speeches seem like mimeographed copies with different dates.
Today I saw a cartoon by Washington Post political cartoonist Tom Toles showing Bush telling followers in a quagmire "I didn't mislead. You misfollowed." This cleared up a lot of Bush philosophy.