Date: Monday, October 30, 2006

Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana

I’d suspect that 80% of Americans have a voodoo doll of Dick Cheney and they stick him with pins every night before they go to bed. My mother who is 90 has a little rubber Bush on the fridge in the kitchen and she punches him every morning then scratches off a number leading to his last day in office.

During the month Bush announced that CIA secret prisons around the world had been shut down but the list of prisoners transferred to Guantanamo Bay was far short of those known to be in detention. So what happened to the other prisoners? ‘We don’t do torture,’ he lied. At the moment they are among the disappeared.

Then notification arrived that Operation Oasis outside Baghdad had been shut down. My colleagues reported that, alas, what went up in the beam, never came down. That included a cat and several wristwatches. I don’t know if the watches were attached to wrists but they were expensive, top of the line. More importantly, most of the dollars that disappeared in Baghdad, 360 tons, about 2 billion, was stolen by a clever Iraqi defense minister and not as we suspected, by Halliburton directors. The anti-gravity equipment and misters were shipped to a warehouse in Morocco.

About Hurricane Katrina, it seems like a distant memory because most people want to forget it but not in New Orleans. In some wards nothing has changed since 2005, you could as well be in Baghdad for all the destruction. Nearly 2,000 people died and damage was put at 1.2 billion. So what happened to the money for reconstruction? It either disappeared are never materialized. Another botched job by the Bush administration.

Date: Thursday, November 30, 2006

Dateline: Washington D.C.

November got wore before it got better for Americans. President Bush signed into law a bill passed by Congress that legalized the torture of detainees suspected of terrorism. That law went against every international treaty on the treatment of prisoners that ever existed and destroyed the world image of America.

The mid-term congressional elections put the Democrats back in power but other than the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld there was little elation. Bush and Cheney & Co. had made a mess of everything. With Robert Gates set to replace Rumsfeld, let’s have a look at the Company and try to imagine what closet all these right-wing idiots came out of and what we are going to do with them when the regime changes.

Let’s start with some of the unmentioned unmentionables: Ann Coulter, the Rev. Pat Robertson, and Rush Slimeball. All they have in common is Rush’s last name. Coulter is a writer and in one of her books she calls for the assassination of Bill Clinton. Had this motormouth fingered Bush for assassination she’d be in jail. Coulter also attacked a group of 9/11 twin towers widows for being greedy and unpatriotic. Robertson is a flaky evangelic and asked his congregation to pray for the deaths of two elderly women on the Supreme Court and called for the assassination of Argentine socialist leader Hugo Chavez. Rush is a radio talk show host who hates liberals and although he is Jewish must be a secret admirer of Hitler. Let’s throw in John Bolton who was a budget director in the Bush administration but when he bungled that job his mouth got him set to the United Nations as a representative to the U.S., an organization he openly despised. Fortunately everyone despised him too and he resigned his post and left the government after 16 months

Now in distorted dreams I see Ann being drawn and quartered by two of the world’s strongest men on tricycles. Oh, Al Gore, come back. The Rev. Pat would be housed in a cage of rattlesnakes and Rush, well, he’d be gassed with nitrous oxide. John Bolton? He’s a very stupid man with a loud mouth and a dyed white mustache. He would do jail time with his mustache super glued to his lips. Robert Gates remains to be tested. br>
Karl Rove? That’s easy, put a garden hose in his mouth and when he’s pumped up, you and a friend can teeter totter on a board on his bloated belly. The Supreme Court is due for a stitch up too but that will have to wait until I sort out some of the new right wing members.

Date: Sunday, December 31, 2006

Dateline: Beirut, Lebanon

There is an oil slick in the water and it’s forbidden to swim. The government that destroyed the infrastructure of this country should be charged with war crimes.

In Jerusalem the tourists are hard to come buy and maybe that is related to orthodox Jews in the city adopting a new fashion statement. The old look for men was black suits and those dumb looking black hats with the broad brims. Apparently that hat look started in Poland or Germany (what ever country your listening to) and male Jewish citizens were required to wear them. Recalling concentration days, Jewish men would sew bits of colored cloth and metal to their prison dress.

Segueing back to Jerusalem, the new fashion is fur. Rags to riches? Where do they put the fur? Mostly on their hats but you will see bits of fur below the belt and fox tails riding a pair of black trousers that could be leather. Mink, racoon, fox, what have you The most impressive hat I saw looked like a huge fur donut resting on the hat’s rim while the top of the hat peeked out the top. And like Davy Crockett their were other hats with designer marks of dead fury animals The most expensive fur was sable from the antelope of the same name. Up to 2,000 was highest quote, probably for the donut. Sable makes the perfect paintbrush and is probably on the endangered species list. What kind of sick mentality is this and does it spill over?

Ask the old war criminal Henry Kissinger, he’ll tell you he deserved the Noble Peace Prize while counseling Nixon, Johnson and both Bushes to war on. Kissinger’s bloody trail leads from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos to Africa, and Chile in South America. Now he’s the godfather of the Jewish fascist Neocons.

It was the disgraced Canadian newspaper tycoon Conrad Black who, with Kissinger sitting on his board of directors, described his voice as sounding ‘like the Marx brothers imitating Kaiser Wilhelm’. I saw Kissinger on a late night TV talk show in the 1980s and he was completely in his cups, but like an artful dodger he slurred a bunch of nonsense words together and just escaped making a fool of himself. For me his voice sounded like a bassy fog horn with gravel in the funnel.

In sociology class at the university we discussed why the Jewish prisoners in concentration camps in World War II would go about the confine grounds picking up bits of cloth and metal if there was any about. The tailor was sewing up medals so they could emulate German officers.

The Bush administration is flush with fascist Jews who call themselves neocons. I think they are trying to establish an historical record that is already fictional. The so called ‘intellectual progenitor’ of Jewish neocons was Frederick Kagan who was born in 1933 and studied classic and historical wars at Yale University. In 1997 he established a neocon ‘Project for a New American Century’ with Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz as reported ‘signatories ’ to the project. It’s public objective was to create ‘a Reaganite policy of military strength and foreign clarity.’ Foreign clarity? That’s pretty obscure but pitching the greater Jewish Empire and Armageddon might alienate god fearing folk.

With the Bush administration taking over in 2000, the Christian fascist Cheney became vice president and Wolfowitz was working as an assistant to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in the Pentagon. Together with other fascist Jews in the Pentagon, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, plans for invading Iraq were being drawn up before the 9/11 bombing of the Twin Towers. For his part, Feith came up with fabricated ‘Alternative Analysis’ linking the Iraq regime to bin Laden’s militant organization, Al-Qaeda. If Feith had a mission it was for the greater good of Israel. Bush and Cheney must have known his information was false but they used it anyway to beat the war drums. Another Jewish neocon was White House speech writer David Frum who came up with the ‘axis of evil’ slogan. He might as well have been writing about his bosses.

Meanwhile the neocons, lead by journalist William Kristol, jumped on 9/11 as justification for their own obsessions. Wolfowitz claimed that Iraq oil would pay for the war but after nearly bankrupting the county with weapons procurement and never seeing any oil he resigned and was quicky appointed president of the World Bank. Go figure. Perle has always been a war monger and reminds me why former U.S. president Harry Truman wrote in his diaries that Jews were as under underhanded as Hitler and Stalin. Other than that, Harry is famous for being from Missouri and nuking Japan in the 20th Century.

What’s not odd about neocons is their total arrogance. When a plan goes wrong they blame someone else like the Bush administration. And what does Bush do? He asks them for another plan. Richard Perle doesn’t blame himself for promoting the wars in the Middle East, he blames the Bush administration for bungling his great plans. He probably blames the Pentagon for forcing his resignation over a conflict of interest. Then there are the neocon sons of Donald Kagan, Robert and Frederick. I don’t think either of these guys could carry Daniel Ellsberg’s briefcase. Ellsberg’s the fellow who served in Vietnam and later released the Pentagon Papers.

The Nixon administration went after him like he was a yellow cake salesman. According to rumors leaked to the press by the White House, Ellsberg was a homosexual and a wife beater. When each accusation was disproved, the dirty tricks man, Charles Colson, would come up with another one. To my mind Ellsberg is one of the great unsung heros of the 20th Century. He risked everything, his marriage, his career, his life to expose the government’s treachery about the folly of war in Vietnam.

I don’t have a picture of Robert Kagan but he is 48 and the one who nailed the coffin on Saddam Hussein in an article written during the Clinton presidency. Frederick is 39 and chubby with the looks of a nerd who plays computer war games and misses his toy soldiers. He’s the guy who came up with the 2006 serge program in Iraq and Bush bought it. When the war has been going on for a disastrous seven years common sense suggests an exit but Frederick thinks twenty thousand more troops will turn the tide. I doubt it.

At the end of the month they hung Saddam Hussein. It was disgusting, just like the American government. Let’s hope 2007 is better than 2006. More later, P.G.