The Secret Idiot and the Axes of Evil

Before the "election" of George Bush to the office of president, many people were quite rightly pointing out to us that Bush is a philistine moron whose only talent is to fail upwards.  Using his family name, enormous wealth, along with support from the extreme right and tapeworm capitalists like Enron and the Carlyle Group, he was placed forcibly into the Oval Office, even though he lost the election.  Various commentators were pointing out his many verbal gaffs and surprising ignorance of geography and history.  It was plenty evident that he is the dumbest president we have ever had.  BUT, the media and PR groups went to work immediately to spin his image.  Soon everyone on TV was telling us how intelligent he was, and what a great leader he is.  The campaign was mildly successful, but there were plenty of people who still laughed at him.

Then came September 11th.  Though Bush disappeared for almost a day, and Cheney disappeared for months (obviously to help Kenneth Lay shred documents).  Soon even Paul Wellstone and Dick Gephardt were groveling at his feet and supporting the amazingly convenient military campaign to dump billions of dollars of high tech weapons on Afghanistan and arrest suspected terrorists.  Democrats were marching the fascist goosestep, and echoing the media's hypnotic message: "George Bush is handling the war well."  In reality, his "people" handled the diplomatic matters of lining up Muslim and other non-Muslim nations behind us, and the military did a good job launching missiles and dropping laser guided bombs (laden with depleted uranium ballast? They tell us no.)  The extra weight helps dig into those cave bunkers. Some of the bombs used (the "Daisy Cutter") are so large and powerful, they make craters several football fields across.  Unmanned spy planes with missiles.  High tech spy satellites.  Etc.  No wonder they did a "good job" handling the war.  I am one of those who believes that there was absolutely nothing impressive about it, except for the strong diplomacy, which followed several days of lunatic posturing and idiot remarks in the days following the attack.  Remember that?  Clinton went to New York and got a better reception and more media attention than Bush?  Bush climbed atop a pile of rubble and said something typical of a cowboy--something like we're gonna go kick their butts.  

But all that's forgotten now.  The media have hypnotized Americans with their right wing propaganda.  "Bush is a very good president who gives good speeches."  Even I have to admit that his speeches showed some marked improvement in quality of English, though I seldom believe or agree with anything he says.  

It was really starting to frustrate me that the hard evidence of Bush's idiocy had more or less evaporated once he adapted to using the teleprompter.   Unscripted remarks were few and far between.  I started to wonder if perhaps he actually had become smarter.  

Bush's February trip to Korea cleared this all up for me.  After visiting the Peace Museum there, and hearing a gory story of an axe killing of two American soldiers.  His remark was "No wonder I think they're evil."  [click here for a humorous parody of the Bush visit to Asia]

Surprisingly, none of the media sources seem to be commenting on the sheer idiocy of the remark, which is nothing less than an admission that he has no opinions of his own, but this evidence persuaded him that Carl Rove's opinions, which are his, are correct.  Absolutely amazing stuff.  (There are some indications that the ban on Bush bashing is ending.)

It gets funnier too.  He railed North Korea for pushing ahead with a massive military build-up in spite of the general poverty of the nation.  I wonder if he realizes how ironic that is as 50% of the nation has lost massive amounts of money in stocks and 401k money as a direct result of his "work."  Unemployment is way up.  Nevertheless, we just finished testing some of the most expensive military hardware ever made, and are planning more war, and expanding our military funding to levels unimagined two years ago when we were talking about "peace dividends."  Furthermore, the secret projects for biological weapons (the anthrax received by Daschle has been identified as a product of US military laboratories) and other weapons of mass destruction being carried out here in America are leaking out.  I can't figure out what the difference is between North Korea and America, except that North Korean government is Stalinist, and ours is Reaganist.  Beyond that, we look pretty similar.  

The Real Axis of Evil

Never mind Korea, Iran and Iraq.  Who are the real bastards that are messing up democracy?  I can tell you.  If an official Axis of Evil has to have three agents in it, then I'll have to compress them into categories.  The true Axis of Evil, the unholy three that are destroying America and the world are:

1) Carlyle Group & Lockheed Martin (Military-Industrial evil)

2) Enron & Halliburton (energy & utility evil)

3) Federalist Society (judicial and governmental evil--rat haus article on FS)