Pot calls kettle black
I've noticed an interesting phenomenon within the Bush regime: Just about every invective and accusation that "President" Bush and his henchmen hurl at other nations equally can be said about the United States.
For instance, Bush regime spokesweasel Ari Fleischer this past week called Syria a "rogue nation" and a "terrorist state."
This from a White House administration that dodged a United Nations Security Council vote on whether the United States should be allowed to make an unprovoked attack upon Iraq and called the United Nations "irrelevant" when it refused to cave in to the Bush warmongers and rubber-stamp their little war for oil.
This from a White House administration that just illegally, immorally, imperialistically and unprovokedly "shocked and awed" a comparatively defenseless nation, slaughtering thousands of Iraqis in order to remove one man from power and to install in his place a puppet government that will allow U.S. megacorporations to rob Iraq of its natural resources.
My dictionary defines "rogue" as "not controllable or answerable; deviating; renegade." It defines "terrorism" as "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes."
The Bush regime does not believe that it is answerable to the majority of American voters who voted for Al Gore, to the U.S. Constitution, to the United Nations, to world opinion, to anyone. The Bush administration is a rogue administration, and as it represents the United States (or purports to, anyway), that makes the United States a rogue nation.
This past week Reuters reported that "Arabs are unnerved and insulted by U.S. accusations that Syria is a 'rogue nation' developing chemical weapons and fear Washington's stream of broadsides mean the war on Iraq could extend to other Arab states."
Of course, that was the Bush regime's intended effect: To frighten the Arab nations into acquiescence while the United States military colonizes the Middle East. Which fits my dictionary's definition of "terrorism" to a "T." Which makes the United States a terrorist state.
Perhaps the biggest instance of the pot calling the kettle black is when our Imperious Leader himself in January called Saddam Hussein's behavior in regards to U.N. weapons inspections "a rerun of a bad movie."
I suspect that that remark was not scripted by his handlers, but came out of Dubya's mouth spontaneously, because when I heard that remark I reflected immediately that Junior's entire presidency has been a rerun of a bad movie. And sequels are almost always worse than the originals.
At least Bush I was, as far as we know, legally and fairly elected, and at least when Bush I attacked Iraq, Iraq had done something.
And, of course, the U.S. economy is doing about as well under Bush: The Sequel as it did under Bush the First.
Let's do what we can to make sure that this sequel ends like the original: Despite having pounded Iraq into the sand, because of his woeful and willful neglect of the economy and the well-being of the American people he was supposed to have served, the Bush loses re-election.
4:20:13 PM 
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