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Friday, March 07, 2003 ( 10:06 AM ) Lostcheerio Bush's press conference last night: OH WHAT A TRAIN WRECK. My two favorite moments: 1. He was asked why only he sees Hussein as a threat to the world while lots of other countries and citizens of his own country feel the threat can be contained. And he kept using the word NEIGHBOR in his answer! It was STRANGE. I realize he may have been underscoring the concept that Hussein could drop bombs on the Arab nations that are now openly opposing the war. But did he have to keep using the word NEIGHBOR? He's not a good NEIGHBOR? It made him sound odd. And crazy. 2. When re-asked the same question, he said that Hussein had to be stopped because he has weapons of mass destruction (maybe he does, but we definitely do), he wasn't afraid to use them (and, coincidentally, neither are we!), he was trying to impose his will on the world (*who* is trying to impose his will on the world?), and is using blackmail and extortion to get his way (Hi Turkey, if you won't let us march through you're country, you can kiss this billions-of-dollars aid package bye-bye). It was just kind of funny hearing all those words come out of his mouth and seeing the accompanying placid confidence on his face, and knowing he had NO AWARENESS of the irony. 3. Someone asked him how his faith was leading him in these times of impending war. He said he prayed for peace. I've got a reminder for him. The bible says LOVE YOUR ENEMY. BE GOOD TO THOSE THAT HATE YOU. IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY FEED HIM, IF HE IS THIRSTY GIVE HIM SOMETHING TO DRINK. I'm not sure how popular a true 'turn the other cheek' policy would be with the American public, and I know that 'the meek shall inherit the earth' didn't mean 'the meek shall inherit the earth to accommodate their expanding market.' If this were a truly Christian nation, in the best sense of the word, in the 'let's do what Jesus taught' sense of the word, those would be the rules we would live by. Instead we angrily defend our need to say 'one nation under God' in the pledge, while stomping around waving our fists and money and bombs like smug idiotic bullies. I'll tell you what I think. I think our enemy is Saddam Hussein and that everyone agrees he is an evil man who ought to be taken out and shot. I also know that after all the bombing of the Gulf War, all the power plants taken out and all the bridges destroyed and this factory and that warehouse and all the messed up water supply and the twelve years of sanctions and no medicine and no food, SADDAM HUSSEIN IS FINE. He is the ONLY ONE who has come out of both the war and the sanctions FAT DUMB AND HAPPY. It boggles my mind that in this nation of brilliant innovators we cannot come up with a way to actually target the man we actually want to kill, without targeting and killing thousands of the people whose freedoms we are trying to win. If we can get him, and kill him, then that's what we should do. But if we come to the other end of this war and Saddam Hussein is surrendering and signing some fake-and-bake truce agreement about disarming, we will have done something horribly wrong. To me it seems like something that should be accomplished with a secret team of assassins, not 200,000 soldiers marching around getting shot at and killed. # |
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