Did you ever have a rich kid in your class back in Junior High whom you would talk into leading skip day or something because if he or she did it then you could get everyone to do it because everyone knew we would all be forgiven if something went wrong and the rich kid was involved?
Can’t you just see Wolfowitz(sic?), Rummy, Cheney, et al coming up to Bush #43 with their Neocon strategy way back when and saying, “You can do it. You’re the man!”
Trouble is, Bush now believes it (that he has been authorized by God to lead us in these troubling times) and there isn’t anyone to tell him different without having to also tell him how they used him in the first place.
If people weren’t dying in Afghanistan and Iraq including some of our best and brightest youth, this would be laughable ... deep, long belly guffaws ... the plot of a incredibly funny farce.
And watching all our powerful leaders wringing their hands because their puppet president thinks he is the real thing and no one yet dares tell him the truth ... because they still are more interested in their careers then they are in the welfare of our nation or the world. Buckley? He’s what? 80? He’s part of what got us here, but he can’t DO anything about it except try to preserve the current power elite’s path to the future.
The NY Times still has its caveat, “Well, we WANTED it to turn out right, like a democracy.” Everyone knows Kevin Phillips nailed the motivations in his new book AMERICAN THEOCRACY: oil and the manifest destiny of God’s chosen peoples.
We sent our young men and women to bleed and die in the sands of Mesopotamia for oil and a religious pipe dream ...
Behind it all (behind the curtain?) is Cheney’s madness in believing the core idea of Strausian Neoconservatism, “If you are not willing to exercise the power you have, then you don’t deserve to have the power.” And Cheney’s power is based on the control of oil.
And Buckley is doing his best to give Cheney a free pass into the future lest we the people catch on to the real source of the madness.
These men are the axis of evil. And they do have the bomb.
Originally written as comment #6332 on 4/02 at 7:04 pm on truthdig.com at:
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060402_desperation_in_iraq/
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