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Why did Bush really go to Baghdad at Thanksgiving?
(Sidney M. Willhelm, Online Journal, June 18, 2004)
TIME Magazine recently broke the news that George W. Bush takes great pride in possessing and showing off Saddam Hussein's pistol at the White House. Boasting of Saddam's very own firearm as one item among others on display in a private study just off the Oval Office reveals a deeply personal meaning for Bush. The pistol, without question, makes a direct connection for Bush with Saddam. Ownership of another's gun means, at least for Texans, domination; taking a gun is proof of defeat over one's antagonist. The gun, then, is a trophy - not a souvenir - for a commander-in-chief's victory over a very personal and subdued enemy. Could such an ego-induced factor offer something even more revealing - namely, the real reason for Bush taking the highly secret trip to Iraq this past Thanksgiving? It is highly unlikely that Bush, who has yet to attend a war-related funeral, would take the high risk of going to Iraq just to give a message of support. He did not make the trip to have a special dinner with the troops, for he did not eat his Thanksgiving meal with them. Bush is not one to make any real personal sacrifices for the troops; he would not have given up his Thanksgiving dinner with his family just for the photo-ops to serve up a plastic turkey. What, then, could explain the trip? Recognizing the gusto so vivid when showing off Saddam's own firearm to White House guests, it is much more likely that Bush used the traditional Thanksgiving holiday as a clever cover in order to conceal the real intent for the highly secretive flight to Baghdad: a direct confrontation with Saddam. The trip was taken not to express appreciation to the troops but as an ideal moment for Bush himself to gloat in a face-to-face triumph before a submissive and defeated Saddam jailed within the Baghdad airport.

[COMMENT] ***** Interesting POV. Given the increasing number of accounts of Dubya's possible state of instability, it does not remove itself from the realm of possibilities...But, that's just this old curmudgeon's opinion...*****

posted by An Old Curmudgeon 12:28 PM