COWBOY UP

by Malik Isasis


















George W. Bush is playing a game of chicken with a brick wall, and we are all in the backseat—without seatbelts. Since the invasion and now the occupation of Iraq, various degrees of the same Iraq plan has been ineptly executed and failed. Bush’s new concoction-of-a-plan, will fail because it has already failed several times over the past four years of the Iraq Occupation.

As I said before, it doesn’t really matter whether his Iraq plan fails, or what the American people think because Bush doesn’t give a shit. He is the Boy King, and yes I do mean that in the most offensive way. The role of the U.S. President is that of a chief diplomat but Bush has neither the temperament nor the emotional maturity, which is why he’s such an effective meat puppet for Cheney and Cheney’s neocons. They write the script and he sticks to it like an idiot savant.

From Cowboy to Warrior President

Bush’s chief political mercenary and advisor, Karl Rove, dressed his political dummy up as a fighting, but folksy cowboy. Roved helped Bush over the years with character development, stressing the need to use the most simple of syntax, or maybe Rove decided to turn what was an intellectual defect, into a positive political attribute—calling it regular-folk, talk. This proved successful enough that it conned at least half of the American population, who agreed that intellect and reality-based diplomacy was elitist.

Bush didn’t nickname Rove Turd Blossom for nothin’.

Rove and the neocons retooled Bush after the Iraq invasion and occupation, reprogramming him as Warrior President, which proved successful. Since the American cultural narrative of war is sold as heroic, the goal of the neocons: keep reminding the American people that we are at war…at every opportunity.

“I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign-policy matters with war on my mind.”

Although being a war president is no longer popular with the American people, the war president narrative continues to con the Battered-Wife syndrome Democratic Party and the corporate media.

Cowboy up

It is clear that both the Democrats and Republicans serve the same false idol, big business, though the Democrats are less malevolent than their Republican counterpart; they the Democrats are so frightened and careful of being called political heretics that they have become paralyzed, despite having power imbued to them by voters to do something. It is in this inaction that the Democrats fit the description of the Florentine Itailan Poet, Dante Aligheiri’s passage, “The hottest place in hell are reserved for those who in a time of great crisis maintain their neutrality.”

The corporate media glorified George Bush as a cowboy—encouraging him; even in the midst of his contempt for them, they praised his stubbornness. Now as George Bush and company goes on the road with their Barnum and Bailey’s Three Ring Circus of Blood and Guts tour toward Iran, the corporate media is the master of ceremony, selling us the same old shit.

Don’t believe the hype.

Cowboys only exist in rodeos.

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