Big Bush Corporatizing the Private World
By Peter Fredson
February 26, 2006
We have seen it all before .... Many times! We have listened to dastardly lies from his entire cabinet. We have actually heard him say "9/11" hundreds of times to scare the public into doing his will. We have watched him surround Osama bin Laden on several occasions and then outsource or fail to capture him after spending millions of dollars on missiles, spies, allies.
We have watched little Condi lie her gopher mouth off, without even blinking, mention mushroom clouds from Iraq, and now in identical phraseology the same clouds from Iran and possibly Syria.
She has been lying since 2000, about Yellow Cake, aluminum tubes, bacteriological labs, bad intentions of Muslims and about Bush bravery with a gazillion dollars worth of security when making any one of his many idiotic carbon-copy speeches.
Did anyone believe her lies that we had no secret jails, that we did not ever torture, that we never kidnapped anyone, that were no "renditions."
Does anyone except Republicans believe that Abu Ghraib was just a fraternity trick, and that only the lowest ranking soldiers thought it up all by themselves?
Did anyone except Republican senators believe that we do not do surreptitious overflights. Does anyone except Republicans believe that we can send Hellfire missiles into any country in the world, at any time, because Bush is such a brilliant military tactician?
Can Bush admit to killing at least 40,000 Iraqis and still Republicans think he is a sweet guy? How many more must he kill before Republicans say "enough?"
Does no one except Republicans still believe that Bush never lies. We know that Republicans are unable to point out any of Bush lies, failure excuses, uncaring attitude, lackadaisical action, and incompetence?
We have listened to Bush and his sycophants endlessly declare that War is Peace, that putting 160,000 heavily armed soldiers in a sovereign country, skulking about the streets, endlessly threatening Muslims with death for daring to venture out without permission is teaching them Democracy and Liberty, after choosing their entire government.
We have seen Bush steal all the oil of Iraq and generously give it to Cheney's former corporation without contract, no bidding, no oversight, and with vast opportunities for corruption in which several billions of dollars seem to have mysteriously vanished without trace.
We have heard Bush beg for billions of dollars of "reconstruction" of Iraq, then watch him pour billions of dollars into building military bases for long-term occupation.
We saw him occupy Saddam's palaces for a huge embassy from which to threaten the entire Middle Eastern scene. We heard Bush declare that he was not in the reconstruction business of a foreign country and then declare the greatest military budget in history.
Bush is creeping up on 3,000 dead U.S. troops, and about 30,000 maimed and wounded, his "brave boys" who may not speak a word against his illicit invasion, and must "do or die' for any hairbrained scheme of Bush, like his "flypaper" strategy, for his idiotic non-plans to enter or leave Iraq, for his cluelessness in "staying a course" which never knew a course worth mentioning other than "more of the same."
We have heard Karl Rove declare that the Republican strategy will be to continue idiotic military occupation while mentioning 9/11 on every possible occasion, and declaring endless war against non-specific enemies all over the world.
Rove and Cheney will use fright tactics against invisible enemies, while Bush repeats daily how well the Iraq War is going.
We heard the Bushites state that the Iraq war may take ten or twenty or more years, while at the same time strutting and swaggering at the VICTORY plastered in huge billboards around Bush, in their imminent grasp, if only they could give Millennium Corporation another ten or twenty dollars to convert into the corporation executives private bank accounts.
We have watched how the Bush morality treats whistle-blowers. We have observed the cavalier attitude with which Bush expresses his disdain at Congress, the Constitution, legalities, and at honest criticism.
We watch Bush daily strut, smirk, swagger, pat little black boys on the head, see the non-care with which he has met real emergencies.
We have watched him strum a guitar, eat cake with McClain, look out a plane window at utter devastation, blame local officials for non-action, demonstrate his valor at a hundred photo-ops, give sandwiches to flood spectators, have flood equipment working as long as the cameras were around, and shield himself with mighty wall of secret agents, police, riot squads while keeping a billion dollars of security occupied in protecting his delicate hide from harm.
Now he proposes to outsource our country and threatens all opponents who criticize him. He wants the fat cats of the world to dominate the world economically, politically and militarily.
He is again showing contempt of Congress, and the cowardly senators who cannot stand up to his threats against them. Now he wants Arabs to control large sections of our country, because he wants to do billions of dollars of business.
It turns out that Security is no problem when large sums of money for globalization are on the table for his corporate cronies.
The Security issue is not the problem. That simply is how Bush describes the problem. 9/11 security is not really any problem, it turns out, when economics is of paramount concern.
In my view Bush created the problem by disdain for American workers, for American industry, and in order to make greater profits for the bloated neo-cons of the world.
Our country managed our ports for about 200 years, and did it well. But when Bush was handed the presidency, his neocon strategy of globalization demanded more profit from large corporations, and fewer people on decent wages.
He oursourced our industry, our mills and factories, our shipyards, our docks and quays which had once made American great.
Bush disliked unions, so he smashed them. He caused the firing of longshoremen, crane operators, pilots, tugboat operators and hundreds of other categories of workers and gave their jobs to foreigners who would accept lower wages. Our workers did not lose their energy, their genius, their love of work.
No, Bush took all that away purposely to demonstrate his incompetence in management.
Bush made sure that wages were lowered, that legislation brought unions into submission, that pensions became non-existent, that Social Security became Insecurity that health care became terribly expensive, and that illegal immigrants would help smash the wage structure.
He made sure that restrictions on corporations were relaxed, that mines could operate without safety checks, that the remaining factories could pollute at will, that the environment could be attacked because Bush's God will provide.
Republican congresspeople don't seem to mind Bush's arrogance, his contempt of congress, his disdain for legalities, his spitting on our constitution because he is responsible only to a "higher law." They don't seem to resent pulling their forelocks to show Bush how loyal they can be.
They seem to be willing to submit to Bush threats, and act cowardly any time Bush swaggers onto a podium to propose some hairbrained scheme that had previously failed.
Some sort of corruption seems to be at work, because Bush will not allow any oversight of his actions, his expenditures, his kow-towing to the huge corporations, and of the multitude of lobbyists whose only concern seems to be to bribe congress with gifts and privileges, both large and small.
The New World Order of the Neocons is now running our country. Their lust for world domination is taking hold of our world.
Will voters realize that saying 9/ll incessantly will not make anyone in the Bush orbit secure? Will voters ever realize that Bush is immoral, cowardly, braggart, petulant, narcissistic, destructive egomaniac, and a liar beyond belief?
Will voters realize that as long as Bush is in power, no one is safe.