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The Madness of President George
(Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)
Bush should hold more press conferences, to provide the people of the planet with ever more windows into the mind of one of the most dangerous men ever to occupy the White House. . . . The whole world is learning an important thing: don't end up like pathetic George blind to reality, muttering cliches, oblivious to the wreckage and evil for which he is responsible. We need to know the truth, and the truth is that this man is dangerous. . . . He is wilfully ignorant of what is going on in Iraq but cocksure that not only is he doing the right thing, but that God is blessing and directing his every decision, even to the point that he imagines himself to be infallible (or, rather, he cannot generate any evidence of fallibility when asked). . . . He is the most dangerous man on the planet because he autocratically heads the most powerful and well-armed state in the history of the world. He has access to many thousands of weapons of mass destruction, and has shown himself perfectly willing to use them against anyone he regards as a foe. By comparison to his predecessor in the White House, Bush is alarming, the kind of president who seems capable of blowing up the world and calling it good. . . . I am supposed to recite the facts without rhetoric in order to convert those who think George is nothing but a godly man heading the free world's efforts to protect itself against barbarism. But the situation is so desperate, it seems to call for more frank talk. People who are still defending George don't need patient argument; they need shock therapy. . . . If you doubt this, check the transcript of that press conference. In much of what he says, he gets the truth exactly backwards in ways that anyone who reads the news can discern. He admits (for the first time?) that the US is militarily occupying Iraq, but claims that resisters are rejecting "freedom" and "self government" - the rapist sermonising on the need to respect the physical integrity and dignity of his victims. . . . The occupier who announces through a bullhorn "Submit or Die!" has some chutzpah claiming to be a liberator. This is beyond Orwell. It's evil, crazy, or both. Websites that reviewed that speech the way they review a movie or play ought to suffer everlasting disgrace. . . . We must first deal with the problem that George seems genuinely mad. There was a riddle in nearly every sentence. He spoke like someone dramatically out of touch with what everyone else knows. The whole scene was a bit wacky, like the uncle everyone knows is crazy coming to the family reunion and being humoured because he's family. People were going easy on George just because he seemed to be speaking about another planet. . . . Now, here we have a "war" that has proven to be a complete calamity in every conceivable way. The blood and violence are ghastly. It started as a war for democracy and American values and is ending in body bags, a radicalised population, hundreds of billions wasted, and an emboldened horde of terrorists from all countries. The original rationales for the war are proven hoaxes. The soldiers hate it, and are now doing extra time. The Iraqis hate the soldiers. US trained Iraqis are AWOL. We are talking here about a war disaster of historic proportions, even for the aggressor state. . . . But the press seemed reluctant to point this out, as if George had his finger on a button that could blow them all up. Instead, they, very gingerly, put him on the couch. What mistakes had he made? Are there things he would do differently? Just asking, George. Not hinting at a thing. Just a normal sort of question every president is asked. Everyone makes mistakes, you know; nothing to be ashamed of. . . . Nope, said George, nothing he can think of. It was almost cartoonish. But in real life, it is extremely scary. The press was evidently confused by the whole scene, their eyes darting back and forth to each other in bemusement. The efforts to report on the event the next day were similarly strained. The headlines could have run: "President Bush Has Gone Off the Rails." But since press etiquette demands he be treated with great deference, the stories were all variations of: "George Bush today pledged to continue the offensive in Iraq, while denying his administration has made errors in judgment... " . . . George isn't the first and certainly won't be the last crazy president. Power tends to do this to people. Witness Lying Eyes Blair. The sin of mass murder does it too. It makes them callous, nuts, dangerous. The answer is not to replace him with Kerry, or Clinton, or Carter, or some other person who seems more peaceful in some way. Bush also seemed rather peaceful during the election. . . . The urgent moral priority of our time is to dismantle the warfare state, disarm the nukes, roll back the empire from every corner of the globe. We want to live in a country even a crazy man can head and not have it be dangerous for us or the world.

posted by LoZo 5:28 PM