Go Home, George

Really, hasn't this sunken in yet? Libby's indicted and Cheney is obviously going to be next; the war in Iraq is illegal and unwinnable; your boneheaded casino-style "investment plan" for Social Security is dead in the water; and yesterday marked the end of another of your idiotic special projects as Congress voted against the spoliation of the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge by US energy companies. You are a living embarrassment to this nation and to the alleged ideals that you represent. You have destroyed the integrity of the American electoral process. You have idly sat and watched as one of America's oldest cities was nearly wiped off the map by a natural disaster. After blithely lying your way through the first four years of your term, you have arisen today to find out that your country has finally seen you for what you really are--a desperate politician who is unequal to the heavy lifting required by the office of the presidency. You are a traitor, a spinner of falsehoods, a wastrel, a disinterested king in charge of a nation that will soon ask you to leave.

So for the first time in your life, will you do something that is in the best interest of the nation that you purport to serve? Will you resign? Or will you trundle aimlessly through the last three years of your term, continuing to harm the future of this nation with your short-sightedness? Go home, George. You are a fraud, a decaying vegetable, and a blood-stained criminal to boot. Three years is a long time to stand unmasked before the people that your administration has failed to protect militarily and economically. You do not have the heart or the strength of character to endure this challenge. Rather than clinging to your diminished position, why not leave today and spare us all the drawn-out bullshit that will undoubtedly arise in the next year? Go home, George. Just fucking go home.

A Righteous Christian Gulag

Fuck you, George W. Bush. Fuck you, Dick Cheney. Fuck you, Donald Rumsfeld. And fuck you, Condi Rice. Fuck you for all of your incompetence, your heartlessness, your secrecy, and your mysterious commitment to an internment policy that revolves around torture and the further degradation of human rights. Just in case the Abu Ghraib revelations were not damaging enough to the world's perception of America and Americans, news now comes that the Bush administration and the CIA have been running a new Eastern European gulag.

The process of rendition as practiced by the current regime involves kidnapping and forced relocation of those classified as "enemy combatants" to various locations around the world. Though these actions are contradictory in spirit to almost everything that the American system of democracy claims to represent, outrage has not been forthcoming. The apathy that has greeted the news of these secret strongarm processes has been one of the most shameful aspects of the mainstream media's abandonment of its purpose in recent years.

Not many media types saw fit to comment on the bitter irony of the USA and its involvement with secret prison camps in Eastern Europe. The same region that saw humanity abase itself in pursuit of bizarre ideological utopian dreams now sees the one country that could call itself a true liberator after WW II opening prisons on its soil. Not just prisons, mind you--these are houses of torture that use extralegal tactics to break down and destroy human beings. Tactics that were used by the interrogators of the NKVD and the SS mere decades ago in these same areas. It's all part of the proud legacy being developed by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the New Christian Primitives.

The USA, prior to GW Bush and Co., had at least managed to maintain an image of intellectual and spiritual freedom around the world. Bush has soured that image forever. Most insidious is the way in which our most basic principles of free conduct, principles we that we had extended to other countries around the world (in slightly truncated, colonialist form of course), are now being contravened by an administration that knows no other solution to a problem than to shoot at it or lock it up.

This country once threw off the shackles of a foreign king; it fought a war to end human bondage; it once helped stop poisonous, fraudulent, and violent political systems from dividing the world amongst themselves. Does anybody really see GW Bush measuring up to men like Washington, Lincoln, and FDR? This weaselly little oil failure has more in common with creatures like Nikolai Yezhov, Reza Pahlavi, and Augusto Pinochet. And like these bringers of death and destruction, he speaks of how many he is saving while at the same time his security forces are torturing and murdering those under their merciless care.

Like a true totalitarian, Bush says the exact opposite of his true intentions. He is neither compassionate nor conservative, neither Christian nor pragmatist. When he claims to defend freedom he means that he defends the right of governments to oppress other nations at the behest of multinational corporations. He should be impeached before he becomes any more dangerous to the future of this planet.