crackerjack a-hole

(the photo's not real but i like it.)

what a nimrod george bush jr is. i think anyway. i realise he's simply a puppet (and not much of one let's face it) but really. it's as though he and his writing staff are confused over what the plot of the story's all about.

iraq have finally gone to the polling booths in a first-step towards establishing democracy. luckily for them they've got the 'ol US of A over there in massive numbers to tell them all about the 'perfect democracy'. i guess that means they can only have a two-party system and slowly create a police-state while telling their constituents that they are 'looking after them'. where's aldoux huxley and george orwell when we need them.

anyways, i'm watching the news when suddenly that cracker-arsehole george bush jnr gets on the camera with this golden quote: "The vote today in Iraq is in stark contrast to the attitude, the philosophy and strategy of al qaeda, their terrorist friends and killers..." (report from cbs news here).

great little newsbite. it's just kinda grating me a little that he's STILL missing the small factoid that there's absolutely no link between iraq and al qaeda. none. we've been down this trail so many times since september 11 that if there were any tangible links they would have been advertising it during the superbowl. yet still the link gets wheeled out, although it gets delivered in a slightly furtive manner. sneaky like. looking at the quote you could say, we'll he's just making a sweeping positive comment against terror and dictatorship and all that we label 'evil'. but you'd be wrong. the general populace are as thick as we give them credit for and will hear 'al qaeda' and 'iraq' together in one throwaway phrase and, without thinking about it, link the two. it's just natural to do so. churchill said it best with his rules on propaganda. say it often enough and people will believe it. add a long timeline on that point and people will in-fact know no different. let's not forget that it was the emotions created by september 11 that helped march our boys to their deaths in iraq. the search for wmd's that weren't there, in a country that was said to be in bed with al qaeda that eventually turned out to have no 'official' link at all with the terrorists. yes there were terrorists there but there were more in america so the terrorist-per-capita link is obviously not so important.

reminds me of visiting the war-museum in hawaii with my dad. it was in an old big solid concrete bunker munitions battery from ww2. you walked through a 'history of america at war' timeline with photos, stories and real items (ammo, guns, uniforms - the usual suspects). i thought it was interesting and ok done until we get to the end with vietnam (this was in about 1989/90). anyways, there's a big plaque with some back-slapping bravado which ended with a phrase like 'and that's how we won the vietnam war'. wow. deluded much? i'm fairly sure nobody won that little conflict but if the points were tallied up the allies (including for the most part the USA) got their tails kicked black and blue. the problem is that a high percentage of the population over there don't study history (thanks to the massive budget cuts in education) and are so wrapped up in blind-patriotism that it becomes a believable fact. if everyone simply believes it then it becomes true. so in the same manner, if the iraq - al qaeda misnomer are constantly bandied about it becomes, in-effect, a truth. if anytime in recent history called for the masses to wake up and smell the coffee it's now yet here we are leaning on the snooze button for the 15th time.

what worries me is the misrepresentation of facts from bush jnr. this subtle lie isn't a mistake. it's planned. it's thought about. it's orchestrated by a large group of people who are more keen on keeping power and status quo as-is. the machine behind this bullshit doesn't even need a decent sock-puppet anymore either. they are so sure of their footing they have a christian-zealot, c-student with learning disabilities as a figurehead. this isn't a conspiracy. every person who's aware of the bullshit but does nothing about it is an accomplace. everyone who want's the tax-breaks at the expense of other nations is an accomplace. if you're not against something your with it by default. oh joy to this world.

quote for the day:
"I think I've got to do better in making clear what the message is, and I think I can do better. But I think there's so much noise out there that I've got to figure out how to make it clearer that we are for the things that I have advocated that would help."
- President George Bush Snr (2/18/91)