Trite and True

Well, Mr. Bush continues to prove himself a hollow human being.

For the most part I see things through the prism of a soldier. It seems to be in my nature but I find that it is most often a good thing. Soldiers tend to look at all things in a pragmatic and realistic manner. Charging an enemy position, where there is a very good chance of being killed, is a pretty realistic situation so it is generally beneficial to look at it realistically.

So let’s take a realistic look at couple of recent Bush related events. Let’s look at this situation. The administration cuts the budget of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. This is the DOE agency responsible for developing alternative energy sources. This cut results in 32 agency employees losing their jobs. The President goes on a PR trip pushing his hollow energy program that he proposed in his State of the Union Address. He needs to stop at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to showcase his ‘program’. The administration restores about one fifth of the funding to the agency so they can hire the 32 employees back before he gets there. The realistic side of the Sergeant Major says bull. George W. Bush is big oil and George W. Bush will always be big oil. George W. Bush could give a s**t about alternative energy sources and the funds were restored for pure PR reasons.

Now let’s look at this situation. George W. Bush has repeatedly professed to be a “war President”. This is an individual that has justified the invasion of a sovereign nation based on his and his administrations cooked books and lies. This is an individual that has violated the constitution and the FISA laws by ordering wiretaps of the domestic communications of American citizens while using the “war on terror” as excuse. And yet he would let an obscure and secretive government committee approve a country with known ties to terrorists to take control 6 of America’s major ports. Could it be that the UAE has not only significant oil wealth but other significant investments in the United States and close ties to the Bush family? Short answer, yes.

These are two very simple, straight forward, realistic examples of the crass nature of George W. Bush. This is an individual that is so obvious in his actions as to be transparent. This is an individual that puts self before all else. I have used two very simple examples here but throughout George W. Bush’s life he has been just as transparent in his actions. If it is getting his father to pull strings to get him into the Texas Air National Guard or ordering a preemptive misguided invasion of a sovereign nation his motives are obvious and one readily sees that he is simply a coward on the one hand and a misguided, greedy, zealot on the other. That is pretty straight forward and it’s time people started calling them like they are.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that this administration is totally focused on furthering the good fortunes of their wealthy cohorts at the expense of the middle class and poor of this country. We can enumerate the actions taken by this administration and draw a clear definitive line to the neocon reasoning behind the actions and it is no stretch whatsoever.

George W. Bush is neither a conservative president nor a liberal one. He is quite simply a neo-conservative radical.

Those Are The Sergeant Majors Thoughts On That.