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April 24, 2003
Outrage Overload (one in a continuing series)
From Reuters:
Even Bush is fan of Iraqi information minister
WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - Now that the campaign to topple Saddam Hussein appears to be over, even U.S. President George W. Bush admits he is a fan of the public relations style of former Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf."He's my man, he was great," Bush enthused in an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw on Thursday. "Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic."
What?
He's my man?
HE'S MY MAN?!
HE IS THE ENEMY, MR. BUSH!
You know who Bush's MAN should have been? Every American soldier who was in Iraq fighting his immoral, illegal, and totally unnecessary war. Every child who is without a father or mother, every husband or wife, son or daughter who isn't ever coming home . . . they are "your man," Mr. Bush.
Bush said he had made a point of watching Sahaf, as well as scenes such as the toppling of a huge bronze likeness of Saddam Hussein."I did watch some of his clips," he said. "I get a lot of things secondhand, but in the case of the statue or Sahaf, somebody would say, he's getting ready to speak and I'd pop out of a meeting or turn and watch the TV."
Oh, fantastic. I am filled with confidence. Mr. Bush is doing an outstanding job at the head of the most powerful military on the planet.
I'm glad the President of the United States, during a war, is jumping out of meetings to watch his "man" on TV. I'm glad Mr. Bush didn't let a silly thing like running the country interfere with his watching his man on TV.
Sahaf has developed a worldwide following. A Web site that sprang up called welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com was forced offline earlier this month by a rush of global interest that drew as many as 4,000 requests a second for the page.
I wonder how many of those HTTP_requests came from whitehouse.gov?
With his trademark beret, Sahaf became a cult figure on television with his daily briefings, appearing from behind a sea of microphones as he condemned the American "infidels" and at times flatly denied what viewers around the world saw unfolding on their TV screens.
Infidels. Well, if the cowboy boot fits . . .
So here's the big question: If people who don't stand behind Mr. Bush's laughable foreign policy, and the wars it has created (and will continue to create), they're "against us." If people dare to express an opinion like, "I am ashamed of Mr. Bush" they are boycotted, threatened with injury and death. (I'll take it one step further: I'm ashamed of Mr. Bush, his entire administration, and the Congress that has given the Executive branch of government unchecked and unquestioned imperial powers to do whatever they please.)
So considering all that, what do we do with a President who cheers on a member of an enemy government, part of his notorious "Axis Of Evil," as "my man?"
I tell you what we need to do: we all need to --
Oh, I have to go. American Idol is on.
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