Hubris is an amazing thing. Even so, the Bush administration has managed to redefine the term and embrace it as their sole property. My case in point is an appearance by Karl Rove at the Aspen Ideas Festival. During a question and answer period his lies and bluster were so profound that the audience groaned at his responses.
Asked about the poor treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo he responded, “Our principal health problem down there is gain of weight, we feed them so well.” This stunning response drew a collective shaking of heads. As to the weapons of mass destruction that failed to turn up Rove said, “We all thought he had weapons of mass destruction. The whole world did.”
Well Mr. Rove that lie and the rest of your garbage are just not playing anymore. It’s long past time for your exit from the world stage, and I suspect in earlier times you would already be locked up as a criminal. I keep remembering the crowds who hung Mussolini from a lamp post as the Allies advanced on Rome.
Don’t get the wrong idea, I would never endorse violence, but I do have to wonder why our country has sat passively by while Bush, Cheney and Rove have sent so many of our soldiers to their deaths for spurious reasons. In the case of Mussolini, the Italians at least could point to the trains that ran on time, we can point to nothing during the dictatorship of the Bush/Cheney junta. All we have to console us is the knowledge that Richard Nixon wasn’t so bad by comparison.
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