 We're all American now2009-Jan-14 |
 Am I going mad?
Or am I one of the few sane people left in the Western World?
I sat watching George Bush deliver another speech of bullshit and propaganda in which he metaphorically masturbated Tony Blair. Blair was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom for his success in fighting terrorism. I'd assume this refers to the biggest disaster in war history, perhaps worse than Vietnam: Iraq. Currently this doesn't surprise me. We seem to have become a World dedicated to rewarding failure. When asked why Goldman Sachs' top guys will still be getting a bonus this year, The Independent was told "you have to pay big money to get the best guys"... such are 'the best guys' whose company is guilty of corruption, incompetence and partly responsible for the destruction of the entire free market. And those are the best guys? I'd hate to see the worst guys. Do they just sit in a room throwing faeces at a wall?
At one point, referring to Blair, Bush used the phrase "...Helped to free millions of people in Iraq". If we must use that dreadful lie, we must also use "Has helped murder 600,000 innocent Iraqi people including many children, along with thousands on our own troops, whose family still don't know what cause their sons, husbands, brothers, uncles died for."
It was one of those horribly cringeworthy speeches, that only George Bush appears to deem appropriate. I'm neither casting a negative nor positive judgement on Blair as a Prime Minister. In fact, I quite liked him when it comes to domestic issues, but based on his foreign policy and his 'special' friendship with the World's most villainous Terrorist Bush, his legacy will always be judged in a horribly even if somewhat unfairly negative light.
Bush thanked Blair for his public support for 'freedom' and 'liberty'. Whenever those phrases are used so frequently, I wonder to myself what they mean, what they stand for exactly. Is it that in one breath we support Democracy, and then denounce it the moment a political party that does not like us, wins an election? Is it condemning homosexuality? Is it making flag buring a crime? Is it support for the regimes of dictators like Pinochet, because he's agreeing to let your companies exploit his people? Is it seeking nuclear proliferation across the globe, yet hypocritically having the largest stock pile of nuclear arms on the planet? Is freedom experienced by the innocent men being held at Guantanamo without representation? Is freedom the love of warantless wiretapping? Experts (according to 'The Economist') have said that under the Bush administration, classified documentation has rised from 8.1 million in 2001 to 14.2 million in 2005 and that it is now much more difficult to obtain documents under the freedom of information act than ever before. Is this the Freedom the Bush administration so happily boasts about? Ex-felons (according to the Economist again, one in thirty seven adults in America has spent time behind bars) in some States, are banned from voting.
Bush went on to applaud Blair's attitude to spreading Democracy across the globe. That Democracy goes hand in hand with freedom. He must be speaking of the failure to export Democracy to countries that just don't want it, but killing enough people whilst trying? Or perhaps it's the continued support for Governments like the Eqyption Government, whose President 'Mumbarak' has been in power for 28 years? Is it condemning Hamas and cutting off Aid because Hamas' goal is to destroy Israel, yet standing side by side with Israel when their goal since birth has been to clear it's region of all Islamic influence? Is it condemning Iran for testing missiles, yet ignoring Israel when they (according to U.S Intelligence - as much as an oxymoron as that is- Officials) "conducted an exercise that simulated a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities"? Or was it the support for the murderous regime of Batista in Cuba, yet (and unsurprisingly) hypocritically condemning every breath Castro takes. Right winged murderous dictators GOOD? Left wing, whether murderous or not, BAD? Freedom is only freedom when it suits American economic interests. Democracy is only democracy when the out come means that McDonalds can poison as many local water supplies as it can get it's hands on.
Blair should not have been given this medal. He was awarded it in 2003 but has only agreed to collect it this year. Can you imagine the out cry it would cause among the families of dead soldiers who to this day do not understand why their children have died in a war zone, who have been given no reason or explanation, that the man who sent them to their deaths, is being rewarded for doing so? It's a horrible consequence of a horrible period of history controlled by those who profit from War.
In a loose way, and perhaps this is where Bush feels so strongly about rewarding Blair for his help in achieving, we're all American now. |
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