Foreseeable Folly

 

Imperial Anglos had tea in the Palace and discussed Iraq in a rolling exclusion zone. (As they did in the 1920’s). The disconnect between the sectarian Anglo imperial mentality and hoi polloi was there for all willing to see.(As it was in the 1920’s).

 

Bush and Blair still don’t get it. In their neverland world of symptom over cause and ideology over common sense, they proceed with brazen neck and Mickey Mouse dogma.

 

The false premise upon which pre-emptive war was initiated is forgotten and will not be mentioned in an election year. Instead we’re about to be sold another bill-of-goods by the shill in the White House.

 

The gullible neocons as snake-oil pushers. What’s new!      

 

Duped into war, the Bush battalion thinks they can dupe us into a faux peace.

 

Bombed into switching gear, the administration will hand over control in Baghdad to an unspecified authority next June and from then on American Forces will be in Iraq by invitation only. At their late summer Republican Convention in New York City, Iraq will no longer be occupied and yet we will not leave the pulverized country this side of democratic nirvana. The Bushies love non-sequeters.

 

In London, British Bobbies were surprised at the White House advance team request for a rolling exclusion zone to protect the President. Little did they know.

 

Bush grew up in and was educated in an exclusion zone. He campaigned for President and runs his Presidency in an exclusion zone. He makes all his speeches in an exclusion zone. He cancelled his speech to the British House of Commons because it could not be made into an exclusion zone. King with commoners! What were the Brits thinking!

 

In Afghanistan, President Karsai lives in the Kabul version of an exclusion zone while the warlords run amok high on poppy profits. In Iraq, Bremer the Debathifier lives in an exclusion zone while the insurgents run amok high on indignation.

 

Bin Laden and Hussein also live in exclusion zones high on notoriety and Prime Minister Sharon wants all of Israel to be a walled exclusion zone, high on anxiety.

 

Maybe the Bushies are onto something! Set up your zone and only grant a seat at the table to those willing to pay. Choose an adolescent lexicon like the Rangers($200,000), Pioneers($100,000) and the hapless Mavericks($50,000). Soon you have a war chest of $100 mil and another century to come. All for reels of Rovian whitewash.    

 

With chads and chagrin in our near future, the cover-up is already in full swing. Karl Rove will not let his boy go to the country on the record we know. He can’t.

 

Rove will be Huston, Ford and Capra all rolled into one in the packaging of Bush as Hero: Fearless, righteous, patriotic and the right man in the right place at the right time.

 

The Rover loves a Faustian inversion.

 

Senator John McCain has publicly asked the President of the United States to “be more engaged on Iraq.” Or the Middle-East. Or Afghanistan. Or the economy. Or the environment. Or anything. Or just be more engaging! McCain knows well that the Bushman and the Rover are prepared to sacrifice all on the alter of re-election. That’s why he ran against him in 2000. McCain knows his man.

 

The bottom line is that the Bush family can’t live with two canned Presidents moping about the ranch. That would bespeak dysfunction, like a Democratic presidential hopeful who hasn’t smoked pot or a cable news channel in endless pursuit of Peter Pan.   
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