Surprise - Bush Bubble Bobbled to Iraq

Note - I haven't been blogging much this last week due to a family emergency/crisis. I am not at liberty to discuss the details on line, but it will probably be some time before things will return to normal. I may not be at my blogging post as often while the crisis is ongoing and my attention is needed.

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Photo credit - CBS News


Yesterday, he fed on Marines.

Tired, leaned against the walls, or sitting with head in hands, they waited for hours for the third coming. Finally, on stadium raisers, they stood and served their country as a stage backdrop for George W. Bush's pre-Petraeus, photo op surprise visit.

Surprise! The marines cheered for Condi Rice who entered like the "Queen of the Catwalk". Surprise! Look, it's Donald Rumsfeld's replacement. Surprise again! My gosh, how unexpected. Is it really him, the American Presider, the imperial liar, the man who has murdered one million Iraqis and soon will murder thousands of Iranians? It is! Cheer, applaud - that's an order.

The Australian reported Bush's third unannounced visit to our troops in Iraq as a "detour on his way to Australia" or maybe, Air Force One turned left because the pilot was drunk? Actually, Steven Hadley planned Bush's six hour "boots on the ground" fact-finding sojourn over a month ago.

Despite the danger of combat fatigue, an entire quarter of one day was set aside as an opportunity for the president, "to meet with his commanders on the ground, to look Prime Minister Maliki in the eye, to hear from people directly involved, to make his own assessments", and to pose for numerous snap shots with the Marines.

A prestigious entourage accompanied the American Commander-in-Chief on this, his most ambitious foray in country, to date. Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of Defense Gates, national security adviser Hadley, Iraq war adviser General Lute, and General Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff all descended, along with their leader, upon the Anbar Province in western Iraq. There, safely ensconced within the confines of the Al-Asad Air Base, our war weary cowboy king summoned Iraq's elected leaders to attend.

"When you stand on the ground here in Anbar and hear from the people who live here, you can see what the future of Iraq looks like", heralded Bush from his heavily fortified bubble.

Would the president's bubble pop if he were to visit actual Iraqis - the regular folks who are trying to survive the colonial democracy imposed on them by Bush neoconservatism?


Perhaps he should brave the streets of Baghdad to speak with this family. Maybe he "could look them in the eye" and explain that one million dead Iraqis is the price they must pay for a democracy they never asked for. Maybe he could help them find their loved one's body, you know, for closure. Americans insist on having closure, perhaps Iraqis need closure, too.


The Baghdad morgue is the first place to look after the river. Forget it he, won't look. He will remain cocooned in his bubble where alternative reality is piped in daily. George W. Bush, who has never looked the carnage of war in the eye, smelled blood, or vomited fear already knows "what the future of Iraq looks like" without having ever talked to every day Iraqis.

It will look like this...


And this... because Americans have built enduring megabases in Iraq. The term enduring used here employs the newly coined, propagandized Bush definition meaning "permanent or forever".

The staging of military troops as a backdrop was used quite successfully by another leader who knew what was best for everyone and sought to establish a paternalistic, hegemonic global empire. Picture scores of indoctrinated, obedient soldiers loyally hanging on every word spoken by their venerated leader (fuhrer). The reverent silence of such assembled masses of warriors is enthusiastically broken only when responses of Sieg Heil or Uh Rah are called for.


Such framing of a leader while he or she is speaking gives the psychological impression of unquestioned support, power, and dominance. Given the fact that George W. Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush and great grandfather George Herbert Walker, were staunch supporters of both Hitler and Mussolini in their fascist endeavors, it is not surprising that the current president would exploit the military in the same manner. Just what kind of future does George W. Bush envision for us all?

For more on the staging of military might and additional photos see my previous post entitled, "You and What Army", click here and scroll down to the second to last post.
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The news of Bush's surprise visit to Iraq came to me via Kyra Phillips, the pseudo patriotic newsgirl who anchors on daytime CNN. I did a double take when I heard her lead in to the Bush surprise story. Whether she wrote it herself or it was suggested by the White House, I found her reference to "the killing fields of Anbar" to be far fetched and propagandistic. Perhaps she wanted to emphasize the extreme danger to which our brave war president had exposed himself to pull off his surprise? Was she maybe trying to link Bush's references to the Cambodian "killing fields" during his Vietnam speech last month to his six hour pit stop and pep rally in Anbar? Or could it be that Kyra Phillips is so misinformed that she thinks the death toll in just one province of Iraq eclipses the 1.7 to 3 million deaths that occurred during the " Killing Fields genocide" carried out by Pol Pot and the Kymer Rouge in Cambodia during the 1970's? Me thinks she should fact check, curb her tendency to lure viewers with overly dramatic prefaces, and ignore White House talking points.
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Let's pop the boy king's bubble!
.....Kitchen Window Woman......