When it Comes to War Bush Moves Very Fast; On the People's Business he goes AWOL 
Never let it be said that Cheney-Bush Incorporated move slowly all the time. Take the Iraq War, for example. After Cheney and Bush flooded the airwaves frightening Americans with an unproven claim that the citizenry faced an imminent "giant mushroom cloud" in the form of attack from Saddam Hussein's arsenal of "weapons of mass destruction."
When Hans Blix led his team of United Nations weapons inspectors into Iraq and sought more time to complete that effort, the vigilant Junta ruled that no further delay could be countenanced, even after Saddam Hussein had begun destroying his already minimized arsenal. There were even slurs against Blix being a Swede, meaning he had to be some kind of a pacifist to be scorned, to be sure, by the tough computer terminal warriors who one generation earlier opted out of Vietnam service. This was a slur in the same vein as pegging the French as spineless quiche eaters. Remember, when they served it on Air Force One is was Freedom Toast as they scuttled the old "discredited" name of French Toast.
The comparison between then and now is instructive. In the first case Empire was at stake, the necessity of occupying Baghdad en route to achieving the New World Order that Bush's father spoke glowingly about. Bush the Elder continues to serve that interest with his active service in the Carlyle Group, promoting globalization along with Nixon's leading push button warrior in Vietnam and Chili, Dr. Henry Kissinger.
After all, from a strictly pragmatic standpoint, how can you compare Iraq and hurricanes Katrina and Wilma? In the first instance the twin tiers of Empire and glohalization are served as Halliburton and Bechtel operatives are rushed quickly to the scene. The second instance involves largely non-affluent citizens who are essentially powerless and do not constitute a part of the ruling junta's natural base. FEMA Director Michael Brown, at the time when warnings of impending tragedy were delivered, reflected on appropriate wardrobe attire for the cameras. Spin control and vanity remain twin hallmarks of a Junta frozen in the ice of its own tragically selfish indifference.
Whether the Cheney-Bush brigade moves fast or slow, destruction follows. Think of this ruling Junta as the 3D Administration: Death, Destruction and Debt. It is the inglorious legacy of this ruling Junta and Dittoheads foolish enough to follow the supportive rantings of drug addicted pied piper Rush Limbaugh and the Republican National Committee's media command center also known as Fox News.
The Junta's style does, however, prompt a modification of the T.S. Eliot mournful line about the world ending "not with a bang, but a whimper." Should this Junta be the achievers of calamitous world destruction it would all end with a Fox News pronouncement that citizens should remain vigilant while they seek to correct tragic problems they inherited from Bill Clinton.
KEYWORDS: Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, Disaster Relief
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