Repeat After Bush: Have no Fear

I mean does anyone actually pay attention to him anymore? There he was giving yet another keynote speech to yet another captive and compliant audience, in yet another midwestern friendly state, and yet again he claims all is well in Iraq. Do not worry. Have no fear. Stay the course. Do not worry. Have no fear. Stay the course. It’s almost hypnotic. He speaks as if he can make reality just by giving speeches, as if his words will come true just because they are his words. He is, after all, The Leader. Repeat after Him: have no fear, have no fear, have no fear …

Well George, sorry, but right next to the report on your speech telling us all about the good thing that is Iraq, was a story reporting the discovery of 87 more bodies. More victims of sectarian violence. More indictment of the policy failure that was foisted on us by a leader who now seems so remote from reality that even the fairy tale about the emporor’s clothes is an inadequate analogy.

When this history is written the decline and fall of American power began with the misadventure into Iraq. It exposed to the world the real frailty of American erstwhile power: the politicized intelligence; the corrruption; the incompetence; the puffery; the fearfulness; and the overarching complacency of a population who wants to believe a liar because its easier than having to stand up to him. And he keeps on making those stupid speeches.

No we have nothing to fear except more of his incompetence. And that we are stuck with because we have no way of getting rid of his scourge.