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It's Time For Them To Go
The scary thing about Bush is that he makes destruction and its collateral damage look so innocent -- so, well -- Godly. Unimpeded by empathy, he is able to combine an obsession for violence with a romantic and religious view of the happiness that only violence will bring. By Sheila Samples
06/15/03: (Information
Clearing House) It is time. It's time for George W.
Bush -- the clandestine skull and bonesman who loves to operate in
the shadows -- and his crazed gang of motley warmongers to go.
It's time for this hysterical and sustained madness to stop.
How many skulls and bones of the innocent are going to
have to pile up before the American people shake free of the
evil spell cast across this land? How many bodies will it
take before we stand up and shout "Enough!" at the top of
our lungs?
My friend Bernie says it may already be too late.
He says it's like we're stumbling around in a Stephen King
novel where people who come face to face with evil either choose
not to recognize it or lower their heads and take their places in
line because they feel too weak to resist. They convince
themselves that fighting evil is someone else's job. Bernie
says he's never seen the world in such chaotic, snarled
disorder. "I've been around the block a couple of
times," he said, shaking his head sadly. "I've
seen the elephant and heard the owl. And -- like they say down
in Texas -- "this gang's meaner than a bunch of junk-yard
dogs..."
Bernie says Bush is one
bad dude--a real Stephen King character. Bernie says he was
born bad and if it hadn't been for all that money and a
lifetime of enablers egging him on, Bush probably
would be serving life without parole in some skanky Texas Big
House instead of a swanky D.C.White House.
Because, as they say in D.C. -- make no mistake -- although
he's manipulated by a horde of jackals consumed
with lust to control the world's wealth and resources, Bush
seems to be having the time of his life. It's
true. Nothing seems to excite him so much as the killing
that is required to "bring evildoers to
justice." Lucky for him the Supreme Court gave
him a license to do just that. Like Bush said as he
pumped his fist in the air on the eve of bombing the daylights out
of Iraq -- ''feel good." Yeah. Feel damn
good...
The signs have been there
all his life. Is anything more frightening than a young George
W. Bush ramming lighted firecrackers in stunned frogs' mouths --
just to watch 'em explode and splatter? Well, okay,
maybe scattering yellow bomblets and yellow food packages among starving
Afghan women and children is more frightening -- or maybe shredding terrified
civilians in Iraqi residential areas with cluster-bomb shrapnel is
more frightening -- but, hey -- liberation's a dirty job.
You know the deal -- somebody's gotta do it...
The scary thing about
Bush is that he makes destruction and its collateral damage look
so innocent -- so, well -- Godly. Unimpeded by
empathy, he is able to combine an obsession for violence with a
romantic and religious view of the happiness that only violence
will bring. He is a man on a mission spelled out in the
Old Testament by God Himself, and meticulously carried to fruition
by Bush just two months ago...
"For the Lord will send a mighty army against you; like a mighty hailstorm he will burst upon you and dash you to the ground. The Lord has spoken. There are consequences that result from disobedience. The high walls of Moab will be demolished and brought to dust and another of Israel's many enemies will be vanquished. What a day of rejoicing! When the haughty city's walls come tumbling down, its leaders destroyed, and its resources presented to the poor and needy for their use..."
Bush casually destroys with
mindless cruelty literally everything he touches. In an
interview at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas, for his book,
"Bush at War," the Washington Post's Bob Woodward wrote
that Bush told him shortly after the tragedy of 9-11 --
"I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals,"
and -- "We will export death and violence to the four
corners of the earth in defense of this great country and rid
the world of evil..."
Think about that for a
minute. Then ask yourself what kind of spell a journalist of
Woodward's stature would have to be under to jot down these mad
ravings like an obedient little stenographer. Why did
Woodward not leap up -- run screaming from "Prairie
Chapel" -- not daring to look back for fear that something
would be gaining on him?
Bernie says the
media has learned a little trick -- that the American people will
believe what they are told by the media to believe.
It must be true, because like George Orwell said, "All
happenings are in the mind--people believe what you put in their
minds."
Just look at us.
What a sorry lot. Americans have been smoked out with one dire
warning after another of "gathering storms of evil" and
"massive and sudden horror." Bush has got us on the
run. With nobody chasing us, and with knees hitting our chins,
we've scurried in all directions since 9-11. And, boy, have we
been brought to justice! With no trouble at all we've
allowed ourselves to be rounded up and put firmly under the heel of
the department of justice...
They went massive.
They swept us all up -- things related and not. Especially the
Congress. When I look at our legislators scrambling over each
other for photo-op positions on the steps of the House of
Representatives -- lapels studded with flags, fists clenched around
flags, bodies wrapped in flags -- an amazing thing happens. As
their patriotic, belicose voices soar in a delirious "God
Bless America," it comes to my ear with the searing truth of a Shriekback
song.
We are blind
We hear nothing
We know
nothing
So we can live without blame
Congress is useless. The Democratic leadership
is worse than useless. So who will save us? Who will
break this cycle of destruction? We know that the assault
on Iraq was a warning, not only to Bush's "axis of
evil," but to the entire world, because, like he says -- there
are "consequences" for disobedience. The savagery
and violence unleashed in Iraq is just the beginning of a long
hellish nightmare.
We no longer have an excuse for remaining silent. It
is time for us to stop him. There is no one else. They
have come for all the others. Those of us who remain must
stand up and say No More Killing. Enough is Enough.
Bernie's right. We
must tell them -- like they say down in Texas on Death Row --
"It is time. It's time for you to go..."
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Sheila Samples is an
Oklahoma freelance writer and a former US Army Public Information
Officer.
© Copyright 2003 Sheila Samples
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