WATCHING THE NEO-CONS SQUIRM

WATCHING THE NEOCONS SQUIRM

By Peter Fredson

September 2, 2006

For the entire Bush takeover of our country I have watched and listened to his many speeches. Lately they have increased dramatically in number. But they are all the same speech. He repeats identical phrases.

How many times has he referred to 9/11? Has anyone kept count? And how many times has he mentioned Democracy, Liberty, Sovereignty, and Freedom?

What is more to the point is his Orwellian double-think application of all those fine words. How can anyone mention the words I just listed in conformity with tanks, bunker buster bombs, cluster bombs, precision missiles, weapons continually pointed to Iraqi heads, bulldozing peoples, houses, murdering Iraqis, occupying a country by force through the use of lies, and in constant violation of international law regarding treatment of prisoners?

The first to go down the drain was the phrase “Compassionate conservative.” Any blogger or commentator can bring up dozens more phrases that perished under the pitiless glare of truth.

For years Bushites have claimed that criticism of their leader was about the same as treason, and that if we lost the war in Iraq it would be the fault of American traitors undercutting the “strategery” of Bush.

Of course, we have since found that there was no strategy after the initial Shock and Awe murdered thousands of Muslims to the delight of the Fundamentalists.

The rhetoric of denial has augmented with the recent claims of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, et al, that the job (whatever it might have been) is being sabotaged by moral confusion of Americans, although the Bushites admit slyly that many might even be decent and respectable citizens, just confused.

So, just as we have seen dozens of reruns on TV over the summer, we have had to listen Bush speeches which have absolutely no new ideas, but have artfully rearranged the words to make them sound new. That made me wonder if they are not all cut-and-paste jobs.

Let’s see how the Bush speech writers do it. They take some old speeches, cut them up into slips with sentences and phrases, throw them into a hat, then draw out the slips and paste them on a sheet of paper in the same order that they were drawn out of the hat. Voila! A brand-new speech for a brand-new audience drawn from the same “safe” people that Bush always assembles to applaud him.

Then Bush swaggers in, glad-handing people along the way, slapping backs, kissing whatever baby he can grab, and grins that sh..eating grin, while he reads from a teleprompter and listens to some sort of earpiece connected to the mouth of Karl Rove. He smooshes the audience with flattery, makes the obligatory references to 9/11, blinks, gesticulates, makes pleading gestures, and provides entertainment for the selected audience.

When it’s over, he goes to some thousand-dollar a plate dinner to raise funds for his party, where he basks in their praise and then swaggers back home content with himself and the way he has disposed of petty things like environment, pollution, massive deficit, Medicare in shambles, etc. etc., a failure as a military strategist and as a President.

But, as he lives in a bubble or world of fantasy, he doesn’t care. Katrina taught him nothing, Iraq taught him even less. Perhaps starting a war with Iran might revive his popularity with his base. Who knows?