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WAR … BY ANY MEANS
BY PETER KURTH (published 09.06.06)
"The terrorists are trying to stop our progress. And we'll ultimately prevail because
they're -- they have -- their ideology is so dark and so dismal that when
people really think about it, it's -- it will be rejected. They just got a different tool to use
than we do.” -- George W. Bush
"And now, my beauties, something with poison in it. Poppies ... Poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleep.
Now they'll sleep!" – The Wicked Witch of the West
Will you all wake up, or what
will you do? You heard our President
speaking: “They got a
different tool to use,” and if you don’t stop them,
they’re going to be running through our streets and, worse, our
malls, blowing us into little pieces as if we were mere chattel from
Baghdad. Just numbers on the AP wire
– 45 today, 65 tomorrow, a leg here, a head there, a lot of blood on
the altars … damn, that’s not the American way.
I have this directly from the
source, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who warned last week, in a
speech that will be remembered for as long as history is written, that
Americans are dupes, and that those of us who oppose the Bush
administration and its self-defined “War on Terror” are not
just fools and traitors but “appeasers,” likened to those
nefarious Brits who, before World War II, preferred to go about their lives
rather than stand up to Hitler and say, “Here, Adolf – take that!”
I won’t dignify
Rumsfeld by quoting again his repulsive remarks about the causes and
consequences of World War II. World
War II presumes a World War I, which, before “World War II,”
was called “The Great War” – “great”
signifying not its nobility or just cause, but its utter size and disaster,
the most useless and fruitless war ever fought for no reason among top-heavy
“powers,” who just couldn’t get along in their greed to
dominate the earth and its resources.
And the greatest “appeasers” of Hitler were not, as
Rumsfeld would have it, a cowardly population, but the lords of industry
and big business – Ford, General Motors, oil companies, railroad
magnates, Rockefellers, Bushes and the Chase Manhattan Bank, for whom even
President Roosevelt, that “traitor to his class,” made special
exceptions in a codicil to the “Trading With the Enemy Act” of
December 1941, just after the attack on Pearl Harbor, in the knowledge that
the entire “world economy” would collapse if he
didn’t.
Wow – that was a long
sentence. But it was a long war
– not two, but one continuous war, stretching from 1914 to 1945 and
beyond, the one thing Rumsfeld got right in his role as public shill and
First Sacrifice of the Bush agenda, if it comes to that (because it
won’t be Cheney, and you can take that to the bank). It was Clausewitz, we’re always
told, who said that “War is a continuation of politics by other
means,” but he was wrong: War
is a continuation of ownership by any means.
Think about it: Who shall be the master of the seas? Who’ll get the diamonds in Africa,
and the oil in Venezuela? How come
Russia can’t deal with Vienna, and who owns the Balkans? Surely the whole thing can be worked out
if only “Cousin Willy” and “Cousin Nicky” –
respectively, the German emperor and the tsar of Russia – meet on
their yachts and have their pictures taken.
So let’s have a “World War II” to fix a
“World War I” we screwed up royally in the first place. And let’s have a “World War
III” now, because the Republicans say that’s what we’re
in, and Mommy Bush’s baby, “43” (as opposed to her
husband, “41”) wants it so.
I’m not making this
up. On that phony ranch in Texas, as
well as in that white man’s pile at Kennebunkport, these two
cross-eyed in-breeds actually wear “windbreakers” with their
numbers on them, “43” and “41.” It makes a kind of sense now that we know
that “43” is just a regular “frat boy who can’t get
enough of fart jokes,” according to U.S. News and World Report.
Bush Jr. is also “known to cut a few for laughs, especially
when greeting new young aides,” who might conceivably have gone to
work in government – even the Bush government -- out of some distant
memory of ideals. What a hoot!
There was a time in American
history when the people would have run these varmints out of town on a
rail, and tarred and feathered them, too, but those days now belong to a history
that “43” and his henchmen are doing their best to erase. "You ask, 'Is it serious?'”
Rumsfeld has said. “Yes, you
bet your life. People don't do that
unless it's a serious situation."
Before you ask the obvious
question – “Do what?” – let me remind you that,
according to last weekend’s reports, the opium crop in Afghanistan
has increased by some monstrous percentage that even a soccer mom
couldn’t wrap her Capri pants around.
(It wouldn’t help if she did, because the terrorists are going
to be at Talbot’s any minute.)
According to the New York
Times, “Afghanistan’s opium harvest this year has reached
the highest levels ever recorded,” accounting for “92 percent
of the world’s opium store” and exceeding by 30 percent the
total demand for opium “worldwide.” That would include the United States,
Canada, Europe, Russia, the former Eastern bloc, Central and South America,
Australia, what we used to call “the Orient” and any other
place you can think of that isn’t “Islamo-fascist.” That is the result – actually, the
goal, because there’s so much money in it – of the war on terror you’re
so terrified about.
Poppies … Poppies
… Poppies.
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