By John
Chuckman
YellowTimes.org Columnist (Canada)
11-25-2
- Francoise Ducros, director of communications for
Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chretien, said in a private conversation
that Mr. Bush was a moron for the way he pushed his obsession over Iraq
at a NATO meeting in Prague that had other, important issues to treat.
Most informed people on the planet would classify her observation in
about the same category as "sugary cereal makes a terrible breakfast,"
but it is so rare to hear even the slightest truth expressed regarding
America's pathetic chief executive that a bit of a flap has
arisen.
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- This happened only because her private remark was
reported by a newspaper founded by Canadian press baron, Conrad Black, a
man who gave up his citizenship in order to accept membership in
Britain's House of Lords, something which enables him to pontificate in
neo-gothic halls while costumed in a sweeping scarlet robe topped with
puffs of white fluff. But his good works in Canada continue behind him,
and the absurdly-biased paper he founded, The National Post, goes right
on doing its duty - in this case, the reporting of an
unmistakably-private remark just to embarrass Canada's Liberal Prime
Minister.
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- I don't know what it is about the "neocon" crowd,
perhaps it is their affinity with the flaky religious right, perhaps it
is stunted emotional development, but they have this urge to crawl about
sniffing into the private affairs of others. They sniff around bathroom
stalls, under beds, or into the soiled contents of laundry hampers on
their quest for suitable political material - the absurd impeachment of
President Clinton being the century's greatest product of their strange
urge.
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- A stain on a dress, a few weasel-words by a President,
naturally enough, anxious to avoid embarrassment, and voila, you spend a
hundred million dollars, tie up an entire nation for months, and publish
as official government documents, available for any young child to read,
words and descriptions best suited to the fiction genre known as
bodice-rippers.
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- One of Canada's feeble, American-neocon wannabes,
summoning every ounce of authority his pinkish, plump, baby face is
capable of displaying (ever notice how many of these people resemble
plump babies? Gingrich, Falwell, Robertson, Limbaugh, etc. Likely
there's a solid clue here to some unknown syndrome or genetic
abnormality.) demanded an apology and the dismissal of Ms. Ducros. But
Prime Minister Chretien is made of sterner stuff. He was photographed in
Parliament with his hand covering a yawn.
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- To my mind these events add considerable force to
arguments for women's greater involvement in politics. Women have
demonstrated a superior ability to recognize the embarrassing nakedness
of a very eccentric emperor.
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- Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, daughter of a
former prime minister, last year made the private observation at a
dinner in America that Bush "is totally an asshole." This, again
publicized by "neocons," of course, involved precisely the word Bush
himself had used himself during his election campaign to describe, not a
politician who threatened the world's peace, but a newspaper reporter
whose honesty he resented. Bush refused to apologize for what was a
private remark made before a live microphone. Tanaka's remark, too, was
private, but she was soon forced out of the Japanese government.
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- German Justice Minister, Herta Dubler-Gmelin, another
tough, astute woman, made the observation recently that Bush's approach
to avoiding domestic difficulties through war had previously been tried
by Hitler. Students of history will know that her statement was no more
than dry fact, but to this day Washington's Baby-Face-in-Chief refuses
even to meet with the German Chancellor, a pathetic display for a man
holding such power. Any politician with some effective intelligence
would allow the matter to pass, calling upon a quality variously called
grace or largesse or class, but don't waste your time looking for that
quality in America's "neocon" crowd.
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- Bush's petulance over an inconsequential remark
highlights why we now are made to orbit dangerously around Iraq, a
fairly inconsequential country, already beaten-down by war and embargo.
Saddam embarrassed Dad, and that's reason enough to endanger, quite
literally, the future of world peace. We are to have Clinton's
impeachment re-staged on an epic scale and set to Wagnerian music
drenched with blood and mysticism.
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- The obsession is particularly distressing acted out
against a background of revelations that North Korea, a bizarre regime
if ever there was one, likely has a couple of atomic bombs and certainly
has a very active program for manufacturing fissile material. North
Korea also has missiles that can reach several major population centers
in Asia.
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- The obsession is acted out, too, against a background
of explosive instability in the Middle East. Mr. Bush simply ignores
America's immense obligations there. He refuses to see that his
Teutonic-knights war on terror, viewed by many as hopelessly infected
with anti-Muslim prejudice, only makes a deadly situation more
deadly.
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- Meanwhile, America busies herself deploying immense
resources to swat a fly.
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- Moron, indeed.
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