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| Acts of God Versus Acts of George W. Bush |
| 01.05.05 (6:25 am) [edit] |
“[i]All I know is what I see on TV[/i].”
‑‑ Will Rogers
George W. Bush sleeps like a baby these days. Never much of a thinker, our president’s freeze-dried ideology has spared him the task of thinking up and writing down New Year’s resolutions. His goals stand as propounded – deep-rooted in his fallow mind by November’s shallow election victory.
And so it is that on the eve of 2005, in the highest office of the mightiest nation in human history, there will be no reflection on, no reconsideration, no revision of policy. George W. Bush claims he has been crowned with a “mandate,” albeit by barely fifty-percent of his subjects. And that’s that, as far as the Great Mandater is concerned.
But what about the “lesser” half of this president’s fellow citizens -- those of us who didn’t vote for the man’s coronation? It appears that we can either go along with George II or go to hell. There will be no calling Bush to account for his policies. The late Flip Wilson, a popular comedian, used to duck accountability by quipping, “The Devil made me do it.” Everyone laughed. George Bush, an Evangelical Christian, declares, “God made me do it,” and at least half of us quake.
Not even during the aftermath of devastating tidal waves does George W. break his clueless, dogmatic stride. The media reports, for instance, that the president first had announced he’ll set aside a Scroogian 30 million dollars for victims’ relief -- this on the heels of an announced 40 million “donated” by corporations to pay for his inaugural balls in January. (Let the good times roll in tie-and-tails D.C., while a tsunami rolls over Asia’s poor.) Where’s the moral balance in all this? Where’s the “compassion,” neoconservative or otherwise. Where’s the sense of decency?
In the wake of the murderous tsunami, it will never occur to George W. Bush to ask himself the difference between an “act of God,” as some have called the Asian calamity, and an “act of George,” as a friend has called the ongoing catastrophe in Iraq
Although 100,000 innocent lives have been taken by both phenomena, it is at the ghastly number of dead where the similarities break down.. For instance, the Iraq War is, without question, a direct consequence of a direct military order given by a human being -- the president of the United States -- for reasons now leniently called “mistaken.” The tsunami, needless to say, cannot be pinned to human volition at all: it is a natural disaster -- unpreventable, inexplicable, and irrevocable. If blame for setting it off is to be placed, there is no one to blame but God.
And yet, there has been a markedly different reaction to both cataclysms. Like the rest of the world’s observers, Americans are aghast at the barbarity of the tidal wave. Its aftermath has resurrected the best in our national character: genuine “compassion” accompanied by unconditional generosity.
Unlike the rest of the world, however, only a small number of Americans have shown the same selfless, “Christian” reaction to the deaths of approximately 100,000 blameless human beings in Iraq. Why, Mr. President? Why?
Much of the answer lies in America’s corporate media, primarily TV, from which most citizens get their news. During the last few days, television viewers have seen and heard on-screen, in-color, uncensored, the mayhem perpetrated by nature in Asia. “On TV we have been seeing horrifying images of parents grieving at mass grave sites,” said a National Public Radio anchor, reporting Tuesday afternoon on the havoc in Asia.
There has been none – none -- of that graphic, unfiltered, honest coverage by American corporate media (or National Public Radio, for that matter) of the war in Iraq. Never mind that an estimated 100,000 children and other noncombatants have been killed there, whole neighborhoods pulverized, and life made hell for those left standing. As the rest of the world watches, parents grieve at grave sites in Iraq, too, with horrifying regularity.
God doesn’t reign over American television. George does. The blood of the tsunami is on God’s hands. The blood of the Iraq War is on Bush’s. Acts of God are not impeachable. Acts of George are. - http://www.washingtondispatch...
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posted by: JonC (reply)
post date: 01.05.05 (7:29 am)
G.Bush, as all the manipulators of our planet uses the name of God or its religion to cover himself of its own errors, sects use the same process by maintaining the fear in mind of people, conditioning them through their speeches to better subject their followers to their ideas and manipulate without scruples, politicians have no ethics! Most of people who voted for G.Bush are blinded by this moralizer who lies since his first election which was already forged. Those people don't have anymore human reflection cos' they underwent a real brainwashing and now are following as sheeps this moron! The only thing which matters for G.Bush is the profit, Dollars, petroleum, not the consequence of its choices = everyday, war in Iraq kills more human beings, americans as Iraqi, how it is possible that in 2004 so many people were able to vote for a man who allows himself (in the name of God or Jesus Christ) so many atrocities, he has some blood on hands, shame on him!
Excuse my English is not perfect but hope you understand.
Jon-C.
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