Billiken Man

The January issue of Vanity Fair has, on the face of it, a very satisfying article by David Rose entitled Neo Culpa. It's all about the evil scumbag neo-cons that were the architects of Bush's war for oil in Iraq, for several years the cheerleaders for the war, in fact this collection of douchebags are the heart and soul of the neo-con world. And suddenly they've turned on Bush like so much waste in a roadside Porta-Potty.


When I read it I smiled and enjoyed reading the pus bag's excuses for why this mess doesn't blow back on them. Their explanation to a man, invading Iraq and spreading democracy was a beautiful idea, Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld just fucked it up! There message is, we were right, but the Bush administration was too incompetent to carry out the beautiful plan. I personally think they and their plan are insane, but I agree that the Bush administration has never been able to find their asses with both hands. As my kind father would have said, Bush would screw up a wet dream.

After I enjoyed this good read I went upstairs to paint a bedroom and kept hearing the news on NPR on the hour and every time it led off with Bush whining about people losing  faith in the war in Iraq. This afternoon he announced that the US was neither losing nor winning the war. Is that supposed to be music to our ears? What kind of depressing Jimmy Carter talk is that? And pardon me, but if you aren't winning, you must be losing.....will we have a tie in Iraq?

So as I rolled on the paint between the news hours my sense of dread began to build. If Bush, who everyone agrees is stupid, decide that YES HE WILL win the war for oil in Iraq, what's he gonna do? The noose is tightening around his neck, he may not even be President by next Christmas. His only chance....the only rabbit he can pull out of his hat is a big fast win in Iraq. Now I'm really worried.

Should he send over 30 to 60 thousand more troops, bringing our total of troops in Iraq to around 200,000 soldiers, I believe it will just create more targets that will find their way back home in a black body bag. At best I don't believe that will tip the scales in our favor and surely not fast enough to save the Decider's ass.


That could only mean nuclear weapons, or some new secret weapon we don't know about yet. Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and hearing on the news that our troops have suddenly vanshed from Iraq. Following on the heels of that news, reports come in of gigantic explosions going off all over the Iraqi countryside. The astronauts high above the earth in the space station report that all of Iraq is glowing.  Would Americans do such a thing? Can we live with ourselves if Bush Hitlerizes the world in our name?

Or this came out today and makes me kinda wonder:
Bush "Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons"

In violation of the US Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2 billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic bomb. So says Francis Boyle, the professor of international law who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 enacted by Congress. He states the Pentagon "is now gearing up to fight and 'win' biological warfare" pursuant to two Bush national strategy directives adopted "without public knowledge and review" in 2002.


Could Bush and our new Secretary of Defense (the 23rd ex-CIA director to be involved in the deep workings of our government) be planning on germ-ing 27 million Iraqis to death in the near future. It is my opinion the only way to win the war for oil in Iraq is to kill every living human within Iraq's borders. It's pull out and come home or nuke them till they glow.....no middle ground. Who among us doubts at this point that Bush isn't crazy enough to be thinking about killing them all?  Our President, and I use the word our very loosely, appears to be infected with the same lunitic mentality that told Hitler and Tojo that they could beat the Allied Forces and win WWII. The same mentality told them to use any means within their grasp to win. In their hearts they believed they were justified in order to glorify, to protect, to save their countries.

I believe George W. Bush and his puppeteer Dick Cheney could very well be entertaining ideas of killing every person in Iraq. Look how many ways they justified and lied attacking innocent little ole Iraq in the first place. Bush thinks he's Harry Truman, Cheney thinks he's God. Anythings better than losing in their minds.


I started writing this piece a couple of weeks ago and the holidays and depression fell on my head like twin rocks. In the mean time I've thought of another possibility that could be waiting for us around the next bend. The possibility that Bush-Cheney will do nothing but continue down the exact same road they have been on for going on 4 years. I'm saying they will stay the course, looking neither right nor left and this time next year our troops will still be sitting ducks, the US body count will be 1500 higher and we'll still be losing the war for oil in Iraq.

Plainly, Bush-Cheney are out of ideas. This isn't a card game, they can't just fold and go home. They are 100% unwilling to give up and bring our troops home. They can't or won't ask for help. Who or what could help them anyway...they picked the wrong war to start and are reaping the misery of it. Actually the families of 3012 dead US soldiers are doing all the reaping, plus 22,022 injured US troops and the 30% of returning troops who are reported suffering from mental and/or emotional damage...that's a lot of reaping too. Imagine what skid row will look like 10 years from now.  Nam vets, move over...we have incoming.

How can we sit on our hands and allow Bush-Cheney to run out the clock?  I left out the 2000 a month average total of dead Iraqis. Are we wealthy enough and yet dead in spirit and soul enough to do nothing while 2 more years worth of people die horrible deaths? It is estimated that the Iraq War has cost Arkansas going on 3.4 billion and counting so far. There is a real possibility that we're stuck with an insane bus driver who refuses to turn the wheel right or left yet keeps his right foot press to the floor........for a whole other 2 years!


This coming week may be the first attempt to land a powerful punch to Bush's chin. He's talking more troops and Pelosi is saying no way. So far nothing has slowed the Bush train wreck down even a tiny bit. He is forging on as if the November elections never happened. I keep cheering our new found power, but then I stop and realize so far self-satisfaction is all I've gotten. If we're lucky......if that's the word for it, we'll know soon if Bush plans to nuke or germ Iraq or if he just plans to change nothing and grind up bodies until January, 2009. And we'll also find out if the Democrats have any power and if so what new low it will force the Bush administration to resort to, to stay in power. I'm counting on Congress....but in the end it may take our own military to remove Bush from office.  I say loud and clear......2007 will be a year we'll never forget.