A Family Matter

(number-4)

I see Bush as unqualified to be president. Bush's election was an aberation, fascilitated by Gore's choice of a Jew to be his vice-presidential candidate. That is how I see it. Many of us saw Gore's choice of Leiberman to be pandering to the Jewish Establishment, which is a powerful entity in American politic - not to mention a powerful entity in American medicine (check the nearest penis if you have any question of what I mean by that). We were turned off by Gore's choice and some of us voted for the Idiot Bush as a result. I did not vote.

Then came 9-11. And it came on Bush's watch. The question is: would 9-11 have happened on a Gore - Leiberman watch? Some of us don't think so, me included (boom).

9-11 turned out to be a disaster for America and also for Bush, who had been ignoring the problem of Terrorism in general and Al Queda in particular. In fact, the attack on 9-11 caught Bush so flat-footed that all he could do when informed of the attack against America was to just sit there for five minutes listening to a child tell him about her goat.

The 9-11 attack was a death blow to the Bush Administration... unless they could turn it into a political advantage. How to do that? They started off on the correct foot when they implemented the CIA plan to attack Al Queda in Afghanistan (the Pentagon had no plan). This approach worked, but the BA was well aware that success in Afghanistan would not necessarily bring reelection. And reelection was the ultimate family goal, the previous Bush having failed in that regard. I call this 'the Bush family politic.'

Then there was the unfortunate confluence of oil and Saddam. Bush had not previously been successful in the oil business, but here was an opportunity to be successful in oil PLUS do in the family foe who just happened to be the current national foe. It must have seemed to Bush that God Hisself had arranged this constellation of situations, and that he and God were on actual speaking terms. Bush must have become convinced that the voices he was hearing in his head were the voices of God (tap).

So Bush attacked Iraq, forgetting about Afghanistan and Osama, but remembering that a war president is rarely if ever not reelected. Bush's aim was reelection. Bush's aim was family name rehabilitation. Bush's objective was to not be the second - and possibly final - Bush to serve only a four year term. It was essentially a family matter for Bush, plus oil.