Some Call It Faith: An American President Steps Over the Line (Again)

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from CommonDreams:



Published on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
Some Call It Faith
An American President Steps Over the Line (Again)

by Douglas Milburn



How do you live with yourself if you’re responsible for the deaths of 4,000 American soldiers and uncounted hundreds of thousands of Iraqis?

Is it enough to believe your own public political platitudes about making the Middle East safe for democracy? Is the unstated rich peoples’ platitude about making the same region safe for Halliburton et al. enough to calm your troubled presidential mind?

Over the years of this national (international) tragedy we’ve heard — and picked apart — enough of Bush’s speeches to conclude that both those rationales are at work.

His 2008 Memorial Day radio address gave away the game in one sentence that, strangely, no one seems to have noticed. Partly, I suppose, because we are by now so inured to his inanities that nobody except talking heads and columnists hard up for analytical fodder is paying much attention to what he says.

I couldn’t get this one sentence out of my mind after it flashed through whatever media I was tuned in to.

Right at the end of a few minutes of the usual patriotic vacuities, he asks all Americans to remember the soldiers who paid the ultimate price, who were “delivered out of the agony of war to meet their Creator.”

My first reaction of jaw-dropping surprise was followed, the more I thought about it, by incredulity and then embarrassment, which finally morphed into a kind of nightmarish despair, the kind you feel when Slim Pickens at the end of Dr. Strangelove reveals his true cowboy colors and happily rides one of the bombs to earth shouting “Hee-haw” with a big grin on his face. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/28/9235/

[spanone]

1. i have faith that god will take care of bu$h*, cheney and all the treasonous bastards

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2. "I call it obscene." Says it all.

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3. Only money matters to Bush

This will prove to be a hollow comfort!