Will Stinky Cut The Big One?

By Sheila Samples
Created Dec 25 2006 - 12:49am

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
--McBeth, Act V, Scene V

It's almost painful to watch the disintegration of George W. Bush and what's
left of his murderous administration. Those who haven't fled are racing
blindly through the halls of power, lurching into one another in a desperate
attempt to distance themselves from Bush and to escape reaping what they
have sown.

Even cutting a bit of slack, it's still inconceivable that any thinking
person could spend more than five minutes in the presence of Bush without
the shock of recognizing what a total idiot this country has as its
president. Other than breaking stuff, killing anything in his path, refusing
to admit mistakes, and making an obscene mess of anything he touches,
apparently the only thing Bush can do with any success is break wind --pass
gas -- fart.

First Fart Boy

In his Aug. 20 U.S. New & World Report "Washington Whispers" under the
heading "Animal House in the West Wing," [1] Paul Bedard wrote that Bush not
only loves to cuss, but "... the first frat boy loves flatulence
jokes...can't get enough of fart jokes. He's also known to cut a few for
laughs, especially when greeting new young aides..."

Bedard also told the Boston Herald's Margery Eagan that he's heard about
Bush's full-salute "Austin Greeting" [2] when new aides arrive. "He likes to
gas a couple, and then bring the aide in and see what the kid's face looks
like." Eagan, who admitted she was grossed out, commented, "Naturally, the
aide can't accuse the President or grimace or hold his nose. This dilemma
apparently drives the presidential funny bone wild."

Most of us stopped laughing at Bush's coarse antics long ago. The boastful
sound and fury of hot air blasting from both ends of this crude, immature
thug as he rips one windy flatulent speech after another while saying
absolutely nothing is not only vulgar, but is indescribably evil. The stench
of Bush's lies mingles with, and hovers over the growing mounds of mangled
and broken bodies of innocent men, women and children in Iraq and
Afghanistan -- swirls around coffins laden with American service members
sneaked back in-country with no fanfare.

CNN -- The Most Twisted Name in News

Each day, more and more soldiers and marines are blown to bits. Each morning
the streets of Iraq's cities are strewn with hundreds of shackled, tortured,
beheaded Sunni and Shiite civilians. Yet, for the past year, the
hypocritical Congress, corporate media and crusty retired military "experts"
sat around gleefully playing politics and fiercely debating whether the
Iraqi quagmire was a civil war. It was a rabid debate -- with all
participants forced by Bush and Cheney's claims of success to argue but one
side with no pretense of delving into the reality of Bush's mad adventure.

Until Nov. 26 when Michael Ware, [3] CNN's Baghdad correspondent, startled
the world and brought the civil-war debate to a screeching halt. Kitty
Pilgrim, sitting in for Lou Dobbs, asked Ware, "The Iraqi government and the
U.S. military in Baghdad keep saying it's not a civil war -- what are you
seeing?"

Ware, a seasoned war correspondent who is no stranger to civil wars and has
covered the war in Iraq for both Time Magazine and CNN since it began,
responded intensely, "Well, it's easier to deny it's a civil war when you
live in the most heavily fortified place in the country -- the Green Zone --
and that's where the prime minister, the national security advisor and the
top military commanders live. However," Ware continued, "as for the people
living on the streets, or Iraqis in their homes -- if this is not a civil
war, then they do not want to see what one looks like."

Ware went on to describe the stark inhumanity of neighbor against neighbor,
family on family, ethnic cleansing, "institutionalized" Shiia death squads
in legal police uniforms who roam the streets, dragging Sunni families from
their homes never to be seen again -- Sunnis plunging car bombs into
marketplaces...Ware said the recent surge in violence was a result of Shiite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr boycotting the Nouri al-Maliki puppet government and
parliament as a result of Maliki meeting with "the criminal Bush."

A national dead silence followed Ware's outburst of truth. The next evening,
Wolf Blitzer gave Ware a second chance to join the "best political team in
journalism" by reigniting the debate. After sternly warning Ware that UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan said Iraq was "almost -- almost" in a civil
war, and that the White House, Bush administration and PM Maliki flatly deny
it, Blitzer asked, "Is it a civil war?"

Again, without hesitation, Ware reiterated that the horrors exploding around
him were nothing if not a civil war. He said, "the debate about whether
there is a civil war is fueled either by the luxury of distance -- those who
aren't here on the ground -- or by the spin of those with a political agenda
to deny its existance."

A week later, Annan set Blitzer straight. [4] He not only said Iraq was
indeed in a civil war, but that Iraqis were "better off when a brutal
dictator ruled their land."

Michael Ware Iraq Study Group (ISG) report [5] was a swat across Bush's
rump, and a confirmation that this nation's foreign policy is run by
corporate committee. Some thought Poppy Bush and Uncle Jim (James Baker,
III) were stepping in yet again to pull Stinky's cajones out of the fire by
helping him to save face for the mess he had made. However, those familiar
with the Group's Iran-Contra power-brokers know why they stepped out of the
shadows now, after three years of bloody violence. The report basically
said -- You screwed up again, Junior -- big time. Iraq is so broke, you
can't own it, you can't fix it and you can't leave it. You're stuck there,
which is fine, because you can't leave until you get the oil, which is why
we put you in office and sent you over there in the first place. Get that
oil law finalized so we can get the oil contracts before China, India and
Russia get there.

Bush is overtaken with strategies and plans from those who sense his
confusion and assume he is weakening. Anyone who thinks Bush will admit his
mistakes and support the troops by rescinding their death sentences doesn't
know Jack about George. During the nine-month gestation period (Mar-Nov) of
the ISG Report, 633 coalition troops [6] were blown to bits -- 592 of them
Americans. In the month since the ISG strategy died aborning, 80 troops have
been slaughtered -- all of them Americans -- three of them today as I write
this on Christmas Eve. Tonight, 12 families will kneel and pray for their
childrens' lives, unaware that they are already dead.

And so we wait while Bush struts and frets on the world stage and rips one
brain fart after another, all signifying nothing. He's gonna weigh the
options -- listen to the voices...take the generals' advice...surge up
briefly before pulling out...double-punch 'em with a double down and keep on
truckin' -- before he announces his decision to stay the course, or achieve
the objective or accomplish the mission -- whatever.

The Big One

Bush reminds us often that he's The Decider. Nobody has the right to
question his decisions -- not even him -- because history has called him to
action, and he is delivering God's gift of freedom to every individual on
earth whether they want it or not.

Who can forget the profound deliberation that preceeded Bush's decision to
invade Iraq? On 9-11, he announced, "I don't care what the international
lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass." And, in March 2002, a full year
before invading Iraq, his decision was, "Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out!"

When asked during a press conference [7] last week if he questioned his own
decisions, Bush replied confidently, "No, I haven't questioned whether or
not it was right to take Saddam Hussein out, nor have I questioned the
necessity for the American people -- I mean, I've questioned it; I've come
to the conclusion it's the right decision. But I also know it's the right
decision for America to stay engaged, and to take the lead, and to deal with
these radicals and extremists, and to help support young democracies. It's
the calling of our time .... And I firmly believe it is necessary."

We're losing in Iraq, but Bush says that doesn't bother him -- it just means
we're going to win if we expand the armed forces, put more and more troops
on the streets of Baghdad, and stay the course.

Bush is a brutal, pathological liar [8] -- arguably a homicidal maniac.
After losing two wars against helpless, unarmed nations, he's bored. The
Decider is moving on to greater things, and those who know how to listen to
him know the decision to nuke Iran has already been made. Before he leaves
office, Bush plans to spread the same freedoms throughout Iran that Iraq is
presently enjoying, only this time he has decided to attack a huge,
oil-rich, armed-to-the-teeth nation which has the capacity not only to
defend itself, but to wreak death and destruction upon its attackers.

Will Stinky cut the big one on his way out? Or is he just whistling past the
graveyard -- yodeling past the skull orchard -- as he goes mano-a-mano with
Poppy?

Where's Michael Ware when you need him?

Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public
Information Officer. She is a regular contributor for a variety of Internet
sites. Contact her at

rsamples@sirinet.net

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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their
spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their
government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are
suffering deeply in spirit,
and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public
debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at
stake."
-Thomas Jefferson