The cash rewards handed to men we hardly knew in Afghanistan in exchange for “terrorists” has loaded Guantanamo up full of people we have no evidence against. It wouldn’t make sense to conduct business this way unless the intent of it all was to appear crazy and irrational enough to break all the rules. Consider the speech Bush gave to the nation two nights ago, coinciding with air strikes on AlQaeda in Somalia that resulted in zero success, and a roundup of Iranian nationals that had been approved six months prior by Bush. For consecutive actions to synchronize so well out of a necessity determined by facts “on the ground” rather than what is going on politically here at home, then let’s also assume that Barry Bonds never used steroids, OJ didn’t kill his wife and everyone reading this is only a day old. Ridiculous doesn’t
adequately describe all of this well enough, but I suspect it does in fact describe the level of cunning that remains and perhaps has always been peaked out at such a sadly pathetic level since day one. To honestly believe that they’re fooling anyone at this point is indicative of something far more troublesome than the actual things they do during these publicity campaigns. Notice that the rest of the world is insisting we go fuck ourselves at this point, a sentiment that will be on full display during our Secretary of State’s official tour of the region that is saying it loud and often.
Notice that Saudi Arabia summoned our “serious” emissary (Shooter) for an explaination of how we should specifically go about fucking ourselves…a procedure that involved Saudi oil money funding Sunnis, the initial enemies we were fighting over there in Iraq rather than here, in an effort to slaughter by proxy the Iranian rooster in the fight, a scrappy bunch of Shia maniacs who like to pray and decapitate infidels, and so the President cites Syria and Iran with innuendo and most likely zero evidence from the raid of Iranian offices within Iraq in his speech, puts them “on notice”, while leaving out the Saudis who told of their funding of terrorists in front of the international media. It’s about as confusing a series of events as you’d see on any episode of Sesame Street or perhaps Barny and Friends, and oh so scary. The only real question in all of this is whether or not the moves are driven by stupidity alone or a combination of stupidity and an assumption of the American public’s stupidity. I’m going with number two, simply because of the air strikes in Somalia. Because the obvious intent of doing that was to provide the idea that terrorism is still everywhere, all the time, right next door to where you live…if you live in Africa.
Shit…Nixon could say the war was concluding, kill a million people with bombs and napalm that he’d deny ever happened, and STILL catch every single playoff game on the television this time of year! George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are to Nixon what Kevin Federline is to everything that surrounds him. Talentless when it comes to the games that they chose to have define their legacy, and with the amateurish maneuvering of the past week, I’m convinced that they have no idea of how bad they really are at this. And THAT is the scariest aspect heading into 2007…that there’s an international Katrina on the horizon and they’re again prepared to fight it with the best political phrases and publicity stunts that money can buy.
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