God Save the King
In one breath Bush took his oath to uphold the Constitution. And only a few later he was promising to breach that oath in his coronation, er, inauguaration speech. Barely into the speech, the third paragraph, in fact, Bush is telling us:
For a half century, America defended our own freedom by standing watch on distant borders.
Huh? Wha? So what? As if this were our only option. We would still have freedom had we kept out of everyone’s business. But we all know what this is. He is setting himself up for the bigger mission:
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
Holy flurking schnit. He really said that. Fifth paragraph in. He’s not wasting any time now, is he?
Bush’s statement should scare the living daylights out of you. It’s so damned transparent now. We all get it. We will be invading more countries before his reign is done. I wish he would just come out and say it already. He needs to just speak plainly and tell us that he is taking a big fat dump on the Constitution and threatening the lives, fortunes and sacred honor of millions of people in order to advance a very few. Why must he drag freedom’s good name into this?
Anyone know any attorneys in Belize that need a paralegal?
January 22nd, 2005 at 10:01 pm
Well, I’m as frightened as I ever was, but I’m thinking the Inaugural Address might be more about rationalizing our ongoing presence in Iraq than necessarily invading anyone else - yet. Sort of pre-emptive strike, post-emptive justification.
As EVERYONE now finally knows there were no WMD - and as people are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that there was no connection between Iraq and 9/11 and that Hussein wasn’t sponsoring terrorist attacks against the US and really posed very little threat at all - if any - the Bush admin needs to come up with a new reason for the ongoing slaughter of our military and the Iraqi people. “It wasn’t really about the war on terror, it was… it was… I know! It was all about spreading freedom! That’s it - freedom - and - and liberty! Yeah!”
I know I’m sounding uncharacteristically optimistic about this, but I seriously think they’ll need something a bit more pressing than “expansion of freedom” to get the American people to sit by and watch another invasion without open revolt. Then again, I may well be giving the American people far too much credit…
January 24th, 2005 at 2:41 pm
The anti-Bush favorite “4 more wars” might not be fiction afterall. I personally think that Bush has been subtly laying the ground work for action in Iran for the last year or so and we might see movement on that in the next few years.