I took a day off from work today to get some things done around the house, but after a quick check of CNN to assure myself, given the current birth panging of freedom, that the Golden Gate Bridge or the Statue of Liberty hadn't been laid waste while I slept, I was soon sucked back into the numbingly repetitive nightmare from which I cannot wake. Yes, I watched their press conference.
They repeated the same old lies. Blair was somewhat articulate. Bush rambled like Nixon on the tapes, only in public and sober. Let's be clear: Any hope we might have held that Blair would finally break with the L. Ron Hubbard of freedom, are now finally, emphatically dashed. There was a kind of sweaty camaraderie between the two as they fielded questions from almost skeptical reporters this morning, Bush's meanderings translated into fruity English by his very own Jeeves. It was the fellowship of Leopold and Loeb, partners in homicidal crime, who also were congenitally incapable of grasping the enormity of their actions.
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Bush insisted that Israel must be allowed to address "the underlying problem" before the violence could stop. He added some new lies to his repertoire: The Hamas raid on the IDF post was an effort to undermine Ehud Olmert's (very secret, apparently) negotiations with Abbas to create a Palestinian state. The rape of Lebanon is directly linked to, yes, 9/11, and a critical component in the war on evildoing.
And Blair leans forward over the podium and furrows his brow in assent.
What I found most striking was the utter indifference of these two upstanding, Christian men toward the human debris left in the wake of their policies, the unmarred smoothness of their self-assured rectitude. Most frighteningly, they see the thousands of deaths as but small change in a grand transaction between the forces of good and a righteous God. It is not at all difficult to imagine, with these two sky pilots at the controls, a region in flames, bombings, terror attacks, guerilla warfare across a continent. All beneath a banner emblazoned with a cross and the twin towers...
The "solution" concocted by Rice, et al, to insert UN hostages into the war zone where they will be slaughtered at will by both sides is just a backdoor effort to reassemble the ill-fated "coalition of the willing." Any nation that commits its troops to this fool's mission should be thrown out of office immediately. International forces sent in to guarantee a comprehensive, regional arrangement, a two-state arrangement and agreed upon borders on all sides might make sense. But a UN force in southern Lebanon would be viewed - accurately - as a proxy force for US/Israeli policy. If the UN has any value, it should be striving to stop the killing. Right now that means stopping Israel...
I just briefly switched over to Fox. They're doing a town hall meeting on the topic of the end times. The busheviks have already left decency, compassion, the good sense that God gave a radish, behind. When, when, oh Lord, will their savior mercifully pluck them from among us and transport them to their paradise?
Cross-posted at bushwatch.com.