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Another State of the Union, another message that says nothing but: trust me. That message was old before it was new.
The central theme on Iraq is: 'sure it's a mess, but you just can't leave it messy, right?' But, Georgie, you messed it up. The fact that it's a mess doesn't get you off the hook for messing it up. Look: if you say: "I can drive real fast and get home in 10 minutes without any trouble," when it usually takes an hour to drive home, you can't then say "forget about all those people I hit and property damage I did, the important thing is to fix the car." No, it's not - and you should never be allowed behind the wheel again.
'You have to trust me to try and fix it with a nominal escalation in violence.' No, frankly, we don't. It's not your army, Georgie. It's our army. And we want it back. There is no rationale for the "surge" other than it looks like something somebody might do if they had a plan to succeed in Iraq. Georgie says that the bad guys are the same bad guys as 9-11 - a transparent fabrication - and that if we leave, the "sectarian violence" (read: civil war) with burn out of control. So what we need, in Junta logic - to shift to a different analogy without a decent segue - is to pour gasoline on the fire to contain it.
The Dick Cheney appearance on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Ego Hour really says it all. Read it - it's a Dooz. There is no rational way to address it - it's every lie that they can possibly make, all crunched down together. What fabrications have been discarded? Can we use a version of the revealed lie, or does Cheney have to deny that he ever said it? So many decisions.
And increasingly, as the poll numbers plummet, these guys are acting entirely out of their own delusions, entirely on their own. Georgie's down to 28% approval - and he's saying 'trust me?'
But, at a deeper level, he's not even saying that. On the deepest level, he's a dictator. He deeply misunderstands and fails to appreciate the American democracy that he's pushing out to the world. His concept of democracy is 'in name only,' like his good friend Vlad Putin's Russia. He believes that he is the sole 'decider' on all American law and policy.
Dick Cheney and Rummy yelled it at him. When he asked Condo, she just nodded. He asked Colin, but Colin said nothing. Everyone brought within 100 feet of him believes the same thing: the president is an absolute ruler. That's how Secretaries and Deputies and judges and cleaners are chosen. Right wing (meaning stupid)? Check. Think the president is an absolute monarch like the Emperor Constantine? Check.
"Trust me" almost always means "screw you," and never more so than in this case. Make no mistake: if the US is ever going to suffer another Civil War, it will be over executive power. And if it comes to that, I hope there are enough American left to fight it. Watching Congress and much of the public blindly follow this Junta for five years is discouraging.
The central theme on Iraq is: 'sure it's a mess, but you just can't leave it messy, right?' But, Georgie, you messed it up. The fact that it's a mess doesn't get you off the hook for messing it up. Look: if you say: "I can drive real fast and get home in 10 minutes without any trouble," when it usually takes an hour to drive home, you can't then say "forget about all those people I hit and property damage I did, the important thing is to fix the car." No, it's not - and you should never be allowed behind the wheel again.
'You have to trust me to try and fix it with a nominal escalation in violence.' No, frankly, we don't. It's not your army, Georgie. It's our army. And we want it back. There is no rationale for the "surge" other than it looks like something somebody might do if they had a plan to succeed in Iraq. Georgie says that the bad guys are the same bad guys as 9-11 - a transparent fabrication - and that if we leave, the "sectarian violence" (read: civil war) with burn out of control. So what we need, in Junta logic - to shift to a different analogy without a decent segue - is to pour gasoline on the fire to contain it.
The Dick Cheney appearance on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Ego Hour really says it all. Read it - it's a Dooz. There is no rational way to address it - it's every lie that they can possibly make, all crunched down together. What fabrications have been discarded? Can we use a version of the revealed lie, or does Cheney have to deny that he ever said it? So many decisions.
And increasingly, as the poll numbers plummet, these guys are acting entirely out of their own delusions, entirely on their own. Georgie's down to 28% approval - and he's saying 'trust me?'
But, at a deeper level, he's not even saying that. On the deepest level, he's a dictator. He deeply misunderstands and fails to appreciate the American democracy that he's pushing out to the world. His concept of democracy is 'in name only,' like his good friend Vlad Putin's Russia. He believes that he is the sole 'decider' on all American law and policy.
Dick Cheney and Rummy yelled it at him. When he asked Condo, she just nodded. He asked Colin, but Colin said nothing. Everyone brought within 100 feet of him believes the same thing: the president is an absolute ruler. That's how Secretaries and Deputies and judges and cleaners are chosen. Right wing (meaning stupid)? Check. Think the president is an absolute monarch like the Emperor Constantine? Check.
"Trust me" almost always means "screw you," and never more so than in this case. Make no mistake: if the US is ever going to suffer another Civil War, it will be over executive power. And if it comes to that, I hope there are enough American left to fight it. Watching Congress and much of the public blindly follow this Junta for five years is discouraging.
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