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 ‘Mission Accomplished’ by the NumbersPosted on May 1, 2006
Check out the number of troops killed, the money spent and the rate of insurgent attacks exactly three years after Bush’s famous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln. Update: Media Matters reminds us of the media’s fawning coverage of Bush that day.
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Washington’s Overrated ‘Old Hands’
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By John Brown, May 2, 2006 at 9:53 am #
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Every May 1st into the near future people will revisit the single most joyous moment of the Bush presidency. After training in the White House pool for an accidental ocean crash, recall the radiantly happy man dressed in an airman’s flight suit with the oversized codpiece that landed on the USS Lincoln to declare that he had won the Iraq War.
It may have been the strangest moment in Presidential history. But it certainly did open up a window into the mind of George W. Bush. It also raised questions about Bush’s sexuality. Much has been made of the centrality of gay bashing to his political fortunes. It’s still taboo though to discuss Mr. Bush’s own inclinations in polite political discourse. In fact, if he weren’t about to set the world on fire, this matter would be irrelevant.
This aspect of Bush’s nature is of necessity deeply buried in his own psyche under a mountain of self-loathing and insecurity. Homosexuality could never be allowed to openly manifest itself as it does in a healthy gay man, like say Gore Vidal. Sadly in our violently homophobic society his very physical survival depends on the suppression of this reality.
In fact, the Bush Administration’s inner circle shares with Hitler’s Nazi leadership a very influential cadre of closeted gay men and sadists. The Nazi’s mass murder of gay men was partly an attempt to kill the demons they felt tormented by in their own minds. The electoral exploitation of gay marriage measures by the Bush Administration and their homoerotic torture chambers at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo serves much the same purpose.
George Bush deeply despises women as weaklings and seeks gratification by dominating other men. He gravitates toward sexless females in the mold of Condi Rice and Karen Hughes and surrounds himself with submissive male advisors and aides. These are the men who fear to bring real world news to him, men who will remain loyal despite being berated or humiliated before others, men like Karl Rove who will answer to the name “Turd Blossom” without protest. It is in this atmosphere that a James Guckert a.k.a. Jeff Gannon gets the run of the White House while the dean of the press corps Helen Thomas is scorned by Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan. It is in this atmosphere that a John R. Bolton is forced on the U.N., and a Jack Abramoff rises to lobbist-in-chief along with his Christian buddy Ralph Reed, and a Ken Mehlman gets to steer the Republican Party, and a John Roberts and his instant family is made Chief Justice while Harriet Miers is degraded, and a Vice-Presidential chief-of-staff writes fictionally of the bestial rape of Japanese girls, and a new White House chief-of-staff collects pictures of the hands of his boss, and an 82nd Airborne Division begins producing paratroopers and gay porn stars.
The President’s spirit is clearly freest during bike rides with Lance Armstrong or driving martial artist Vladimir Putin around the ranch in Crawford. Just as clearly, to do the same with the newly elected women presidents of Chile or Liberia would be quite awkward for him.
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