Sedition
September 29th, 2006
Readers of this blog have noticed that I rarely address politics here–and when I do, the political issues lining up to get holed in my shooting gallery are most often related to technological matters. I don’t really like discussing politics, for two reasons: 1) there are much better political news and discussion outlets than this one-man virtual donkey show; and 2) politics generally bores me blind. But the Bush administration’s ridiculous “War on Terror” and the horrendous, almost McCarthyite domestic policies it has lately been stirring up have finally loosened my lips.
Brace yourself, people. This is not going to be pretty–and, ohhhhhh yes, there will be foul language. Send the kids out of the room now before my invective scars their fragile little minds for life.
George W. Bush is a goddamned moron. Nay, not a moron, which Answers.com defines in turn-of-the-century psychological terms as “A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education.” A true “moron”, following this definition (which has not actually been used in psychological parlance since the early part of the Twentieth Century), at least can be a valuable member of society by serving some kind of positive function. But George W. Bush serves no function whatsoever save to dig a deeper and deeper hold for this nation to slip into.
Let’s, for the moment, forget the fact that he suckered Congress into redefining the definition of “torture”, as well as permitting warrantless wiretapping. That stuff is heinous in its own right, but the straw that final broke the blogger’s back was his pronouncement, earlier today (29 September 2006) that “critics who believe that fighting the war in Iraq has made America less safe are ‘buying into enemy propaganda.’”
WHAT enemy propaganda?! The only propaganda I have been exposed to lately are statements from the Bush Administration attempting to prop up our public opinion concerning the miserable, unwinnable “war” they marched us into by way of getting some good ol’ red-blooded American payback against them filthy towel-heads what blew up all our buildings. Consider the following statement quoted by USAToday.com:
Some of them [Bush’s critics] selectively quoted from the document to make the case that by fighting terrorists, by fighting them in Iraq, we are making people less secure here at home….This argument buys into the enemy propaganda that the enemies attacked up [sic] because we are fighting them.
The “document” in question is a leaked National Intelligence Estimate whose pertinent data appeared recently in the New York Times. Bushy claims that his critics “selectively quoted” from this document to support their perfectly common-sense thesis that “extremists were using the Iraq war to recruit more terrorists.”
Honestly…no one needs a leaked NIE report to realize this. The United States military invaded an Islamic country (that, incidentally, had one of the few truly secular, non-religious governments in the entire region) and destroyed the law-enforcement infrastructure in that country, which allowed a fullscale religious war between Sunni and Shiite factions to boil up on top of the perfectly natural anti-American sentiment that brewed among the Iraqis because we invaded their country. Whether our actions were justified or not on an international, or even a merely social, level is irrelevant: we, a very large, and very powerful military power invaded them…and, come on, people - NO ONE likes their lands and homes being invaded, whatever the reason. Especially when that invasion topples a regime that, yes, was certainly tyrannical…yet managed to keep sectarian religious violence under control. Now, the stabilizing influence of the Hussein regime is gone, and what’s left? An American “peacekeeping” force and a “new Iraqi parliament” that are so ineffectual and so confused that they are, for all intents and purposes, worthless. The religious wackos are having a field day. And anti-American sentiment is running wild.
And guess what? Al-Qaeda really likes to recruit religious wackos who have a thing against Americans.
Even if there weren’t data Out There that obviously supports this thesis, a simple, high-school-level Social-Studies-class understanding of the situation in Iraq would lead even a moron - ”A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years” - to conclude that it would be VERY likely that Al-Qaeda recruiters would be having a bloody field day swelling their ranks in Iraq.
“But,” Bush said (to long applause, USAToday.com notes), “I want to remind American citizens that we were not in Iraq on Sept. 11, 2001.”
Well, DUH. The Al-Qaeda bastards who got the drop on us on 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq. But the Al-Qaeda bastards who are someday going to attempt - and, who knows, maybe even succeed! - at topping their 9/11 stunt with another sweeps-week attack on the Great Satan are probably going to come from Iraq. Why? Because we stirred them up - we poked our stick into that ant’s nest of Medieval religious insanity.
Mr. Bush, dig the shit out of your ears for one fucking second and listen to what the entire world is telling you: THE WAR ON TERROR IS PRODUCING TERROR. It’s a vicious cycle of truly Orwellian proportions. Witness:
- Al-Qaeda terrorists representing militant Islam…oh, I mean, Islamic fascism (as opposed to, what, Bush/Blair PseudoDemocratic Fascism?) attack America. We respond by attacking the nation and regime (Afghanistan) that initially harbored them - an attack which I still believe to be justified - but then attack a nation which had NO roll in 9/11 whatsoever.
- Islamic radicals see the US’s invasion of Iraq as fulfillment of their beliefs that the US and the Western Powers have some kind of crazy grudge against Islam - which has been one of their recruiting messages for years. Way to go, Bushy: you just confirmed (in their minds) one of their primary doctrines.
- By pursuing “anti-terrorist” measures abroad, you have, in effect, stirred up even more anti-American sentiment…especially by “liberating” the Iraqi people from the stabilizing influence of a truly fascistic, but nonthreatening (to our nation), regime. Al-Qaeda recruiters would be stupider than you are if they DIDN’T flock to Iraq and any other Islamic nation feeling angered or threatened by US aggression.
- This will eventually, and inevitably, spur another Al-Qaeda attack on the US. Then what? Another invasion? Another “liberation”?
Lather, rinse, repeat.
And you have the gall to accuse American citizens who point out your obvious failings of succumbing to “enemy propaganda”? I ask again: WHAT PROPAGANDA? Do you honestly think we, your critics, are visiting www.al-qaeda.com and reading their convenient online FAQs? Or do you think we’re getting our news and information from - GASP! - overseas sources via the Internet?
Oh, you do? Well, I guess that does explain the warrantless wiretapping and revised “enemy combatant” laws you just railroaded through our equally-idiotic Congress.
Well, here - let me make it easy on you. I’m sure the NSA or CIA or some other intelligence-gathering organization will red-flag the following text and it may very well appear in the next “domestic terrorism” newsbrief to land on your desk:
Dear Mr. Bush:
I, Derek C. F. Pegritz, am entirely opposed to everything your administration stands for in regard to the so-called “War on Terror”. My views on this subject, and all of the information that I required to support them, was gleaned from the publication George W. Bush: Rapist of the Prophet which I received by anonymous courier after I used my PayPal account to donate a “love gift” of $3.25 (USD) to the Al-Qaeda Missionary Fund. Upon reading this three-page, photocopied pamphlet, I have decided that there is no God but God (that is, Allah, not the Christian or the Jewish “God”), Muhammad is His Prophet, and the United States is the Agent of Shaitan - by whom, I believe, they mean you. Al-Qaeda mail-order propaganda has now permanently influenced my views and, I believe, I am now what you would consider Un-American.
Oh, yeah - while we’re at it, I might as well tell you that I am a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, an Anarchist, a “Hippie”, a supporter of Iberian Expansion in the Philippines and the Caribbean, a “white indian” riding with the Apaches, a Confederate sympathizer, a Tory (God…I mean, Allah Save The King!), an Abolitionist, a Black Panther, a Branch Davidian, and a supporter of Universal Suffrage (yes, even for Negroes).
Before sending an NSA “extraction team” to my house, please call ahead and inform me of their dispatch so I may properly barricade my house for a proper fourteen-day-siege and prepare enough Plutonium for a minimum of seven dirty bombs.
Sincerely,
DCFP.
PS: I shall, in the future, refrain from calling you a moron out of respect for actual morons, who have informed me that they take offense at being lumped into the same category as yourself.
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