Bush, You're Busted

by John deLaubenfels

That's right, Shrub, you heard me.  You are SO busted.  The world's verdict on you is already set in stone, assuming that we attack Iraq as you've scripted.  Guilty of being a mentally impaired halfwit.  Guilty of murder, for the sake of your oil-drilling friends.  Guilty of cowardice.  Guilty of treason.

Yes, today you are Thug-In-Chief, standing before the United Nations telling lies but getting glowing reports from most of the mainstream American media.  Yes, today you control the mighty U.S. military, and can order it to bomb any place you like around the world.  And yes, people in the past have gotten away with massive destruction and have still been written up as "strong leaders" by many history books, at least in the short term.  Look at Wilson.  Look at everybody's favorite, "Honest Abe" Lincoln.

Nevertheless, you are busted.  History is not going to be kind to you.  Unless you die young (and I certainly hope you don't), you will live to see your own vilification by the world.  Even by the knowledge-impaired, lazy, hope-for-the-best, don't-tell-me-what-I-don't-want-to-know populace of the United States.

Why am I so sure?  Because, unlike the uncertain spotlight that has been shown on past governments, the indictments against you are already being written in plentitude every day, and are being propagated in a way that you can't possibly stop.  Today's best is this, which contains the following gem of a quote:

". . . advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."

Wow.  How's that for arrogant, racist, and downright inhuman?  That was written just before you were elected, sorry, appointed president, by your henchmen, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al.  Even your little brother Jeb, who of all the Shrub boys supposedly got a smattering of grey matter at birth (though a revision of that judgment may now be in order).  In any case, this reflects the thinking of the geniuses who feed you the line that, if you only follow their advice, you'll be regarded as a great president.  A real leader.  Rivaling even Hitler.  Ooops!  Not Hitler.  Il Duce.  He was on our side, right?  A great man, made the trains run on time, in France.  Or one of those countries.  He understood the importance of a strong executive government, and didn't take any back-talk.  You'll have a place in history as large as his, the way you're going.

Uhhh . . . Shrub?  You looked a little glassy-eyed there, as if off in fantasy land.  Could we come back to reality, just for a second?  Advanced biological warfare, yeah!  As long as nobody notices that we glorify madness in ourselves that we condemn in others. 

That's one recent revelation, but every day new damning indictments against you appear.  You may comfort yourself with the thought (I use the term loosely) that these revelations, public though they already are, have not yet been read by many, but that comfort will soon vanish: What is obscure today will be emblazoned in the headlines before long.  Do you think that the press will be unwilling to turn against you in the end?  Can you say "Richard Nixon"?

Poor little Shrub Bush, destined for the scrap heap of history.  I could reserve a small amount of pity for you, if I did not pity the innocent victims of your monstrous actions so much more.

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September 17, 2002

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John deLaubenfels is a 53-year old native born citizen of the United States, a programmer by profession and music lover by avocation, who is passionate about preserving (and restoring) the basic freedoms of this country, and, if possible, the world.

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