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It's Time For Them To Go 

The scary thing about Bush is that he makes destruction and its collateral damage look so innocent -- so, well -- Godly.  Unimpeded by empathy, he is able to combine an obsession for violence with a romantic and religious view of the happiness that only violence will bring.

By Sheila Samples

06/15/03: (Information Clearing House) It is time.  It's time for George W. Bush -- the clandestine skull and bonesman who loves to operate in the shadows -- and his crazed gang of motley warmongers to go.  It's time for this hysterical and sustained madness to stop.  How many skulls and bones of the innocent are going to have to pile up before the American people shake free of the evil spell cast across this land?  How many bodies will it take before we stand up and shout "Enough!" at the top of our lungs?  
My friend Bernie says it may already be too late.  He says it's like we're stumbling around in a Stephen King novel where people who come face to face with evil either choose not to recognize it or lower their heads and take their places in line because they feel too weak to resist.  They convince themselves that fighting evil is someone else's job.  Bernie says he's never seen the world in such chaotic, snarled disorder.  "I've been around the block a couple of times," he said, shaking his head sadly.  "I've seen the elephant and heard the owl.  And -- like they say down in Texas -- "this gang's meaner than a bunch of junk-yard dogs..."
Bernie says Bush is one bad dude--a real Stephen King character.  Bernie says he was born bad and if it hadn't been for all that money and a lifetime of enablers egging him on, Bush probably would be serving life without parole in some skanky Texas Big House instead of a swanky D.C.White House.  Because, as they say in D.C. -- make no mistake -- although he's manipulated by a horde of  jackals consumed with lust to control the world's wealth and resources, Bush seems to be having the time of his life.  It's true.  Nothing seems to excite him so much as the killing that is required to "bring evildoers to justice."   Lucky for him the Supreme Court gave him a license to do just that.  Like Bush said as he pumped his fist in the air on the eve of bombing the daylights out of Iraq --  ''feel good."  Yeah.  Feel damn good...
The signs have been there all his life.   Is anything more frightening than a young George W. Bush ramming lighted firecrackers in stunned frogs' mouths -- just to watch 'em explode and splatter?  Well, okay, maybe scattering yellow bomblets and yellow food packages among starving Afghan women and children is more frightening -- or maybe shredding terrified civilians in Iraqi residential areas with cluster-bomb shrapnel is more frightening -- but, hey -- liberation's a dirty job.  You know the deal -- somebody's gotta do it...
The scary thing about Bush is that he makes destruction and its collateral damage look so innocent -- so, well -- Godly.  Unimpeded by empathy, he is able to combine an obsession for violence with a romantic and religious view of the happiness that only violence will bring.   He is a man on a mission spelled out in the Old Testament by God Himself, and meticulously carried to fruition by Bush just two months ago... 

"For the Lord will send a mighty army against you; like a mighty hailstorm he will burst upon you and dash you to the ground.  The Lord has spoken.  There are consequences that result from disobedience.  The high walls of Moab will be demolished and brought to dust and another of Israel's many enemies will be vanquished.  What a day of rejoicing!  When the haughty city's walls come tumbling down, its leaders destroyed, and its resources presented to the poor and needy for their use..."

Bush casually destroys with mindless cruelty literally everything he touches.  In an interview at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas, for his book, "Bush at War," the Washington Post's Bob Woodward wrote that Bush told him shortly after the tragedy of  9-11 -- "I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals," and -- "We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of this great country and rid the world of evil..."  
Think about that for a minute.  Then ask yourself what kind of spell a journalist of Woodward's stature would have to be under to jot down these mad ravings like an obedient little stenographer.  Why did Woodward not leap up -- run screaming from "Prairie Chapel" -- not daring to look back for fear that something would be gaining on him?
Bernie says the media has learned a little trick -- that the American people will believe what they are told by the media to believe.  It must be true, because like George Orwell said, "All happenings are in the mind--people believe what you put in their minds." 
Just look at us.  What a sorry lot.  Americans have been smoked out with one dire warning after another of "gathering storms of evil" and "massive and sudden horror."  Bush has got us on the run.  With nobody chasing us, and with knees hitting our chins, we've scurried in all directions since 9-11.  And, boy, have we been brought to justice!   With no trouble at all we've allowed ourselves to be rounded up and put firmly under the heel of the department of justice...
They went massive.  They swept us all up -- things related and not.  Especially the Congress.  When I look at our legislators scrambling over each other for photo-op positions on the steps of the House of Representatives -- lapels studded with flags, fists clenched around flags, bodies wrapped in flags -- an amazing thing happens.  As their patriotic, belicose voices soar in a delirious "God Bless America," it comes to my ear with the searing truth of a Shriekback song.
    We are blind
We hear nothing
We know nothing
    So we can live without blame  
Congress is useless.  The Democratic leadership is worse than useless.  So who will save us?  Who will break this cycle of destruction?  We know that the assault on Iraq was a warning, not only to Bush's "axis of evil," but to the entire world, because, like he says -- there are "consequences" for disobedience.  The savagery and violence unleashed in Iraq is just the beginning of a long hellish nightmare. 
We no longer have an excuse for remaining silent.  It is time for us to stop him.  There is no one else.  They have come for all the others.  Those of us who remain must stand up and say No More Killing.  Enough is Enough. 
Bernie's right.  We must tell them -- like they say down in Texas on Death Row -- "It is time.  It's time for you to go..."
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma freelance writer and a former US Army Public Information Officer.

© Copyright 2003 Sheila Samples


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