My latest rant

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Envy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
by Z
August 18, 2003


Why does Bush seem to hate our troops? Simple — he’s jealous.

Mind you, this is only my opinion. But bear with me — you might find yourself nodding in agreement by the time I’m through.

Throughout American history, soldiers have been seen as heroes sent off to fight for our freedoms. Putting aside for the moment the fact that our freedoms are inherent, and not granted to us by our government, it seems fair to acknowledge that soldiers have had some part in protecting those freedoms when they come under attack.

What I’m describing, of course, is a rarity. In most of the wars fought — or instigated — by the United States, there have been no real threats to our freedoms from an external foe. The obvious example of this is the current undeclared war against the Iraqi people. Before Saddam Hussein escaped, he ruled over this ancient birthplace of mankind with an iron fist. He was a monster, no question. I don’t believe anyone could seriously suggest otherwise.

However, until 1990 he was our monster, bred and fed by America’s military-industrial-espionage conglomerate. He killed his citizens, and our government looked the other way. Then he became expendable and lost the tender loving care he had grown accustomed to from men such as George H.W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. And so, it was decided he had to go. Fast-forward twelve years later, when the decision to finish the job not concluded in 1991 was made by the current Bush administration.

Through lies, deceit, and other illegal methods, the administration got its wish. Troops were rushed to the Gulf, and an invasion and occupation became a fiat accompli. Our sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters, now duck and run under fire from scattershot liberation forces bent on taking back their country. Many have died, and the death toll mounts every day. All of this to remove someone who did not pose a threat to our freedoms or lives. Still, I won't deny that a world without Hussein is a better one.

Strangely enough, though, the Bush administration seems to have a deep disdain for the very forces it sent in to “liberate” Iraq. The numerous attacks on our troops don’t just come from Iraqis, but from within the White House itself. Hazardous duty pay, veteran’s benefits, and death payouts to soldiers’ spouses have all been reduced or are targeted for cuts. Soldiers sleep in squalor, without enough food, water, or supplies. Living conditions for many of the troops are as bad as those of the Iraqis the administration claims to want to help. Yet we hear nothing from Bush or his fellows. Why?

I think one reason is that Bush himself does not care about the troops, even as he uses them as pawns in a new deluxe edition of the Great Game. This does not surprise me — any man who can mock a woman about to be executed, when he is the only one who stands between her life and death, cannot possibly possess much empathy for humanity. But why does Bush seem to despise the troops? He must not be too concerned for their well-being, or there would surely be an outcry from the White House about the defense contractors who never showed up to fulfill their contracts to supply the soldiers with basic needs. He certainly never would have arrogantly demanded that those who wish to kill American soldiers “Bring ‘em on” if he cared one iota for the men and women of the military. Nor would he undercut them economically here at home, thus making life even harder for their families.

As I said at the outset, I believe Bush is jealous of our soldiers. To be precise, I believe he is jealous of the love and devotion they receive — right or wrong — from the general public. And I further believe he is, and will always be, eternally envious of their dedication and courage — two wonderful qualities that he exploits to his own advantage.

You see, George Walker Bush is a coward.

Someone who uses his father’s political connections to dodge the draft and send others to die in his place in Vietnam is a coward.

Someone who dodges personal responsibility for his past actions — and uses questionable means to cover up those actions — is a coward.

Someone who cannot look another in the eye and speak without lying is a coward.

Bush is all of these things. An unloved boy trapped in a man’s body, he displays cowardice in every aspect of his life, from his inability to be honest with the American people on any subject to his inability to be honest with himself. Count the unanswered questions posed to Bush. Do you see a pattern in his evasive nature?

His father — a man he seems to try to best at every opportunity, even challenging him to a fist fight in his youth — was known as a wimp. But Bush the Lesser is even worse: a traitorous coward so afraid to see the good in humanity that he has wholeheartedly embraced the evils of men and women — people he will one day find out love him no more than the rest of us do.

So very very true.

Might you be Zhade of Montana? (no last names given, of course, to protect either you or the Zhade I'm thinking of...)

I am on the Left Coast :)