The Theory of Relativity
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Bush lied
 

June 22 2005
Counterbias.com
by Brian Adler
 

An intelligent man resolved a complex idea into a simple equation: E=MC². As we all know, humankind has continued to advance since those far off days of the early Twentieth Century. Men and women have grown in size and mental acuity. New supermen walk the Earth; the product of modern science and old-fashioned values, of New Media and Old Time Religion.

Doubtless the Neanderthal World of Einstein’s “Old Europe” could never have produced the likes of George W. Bush – an intellect as big as the 2005 U.S. Military Budget, a well of compassion deeper than that which can fill ten billion barrels with crude, and a faith that outpaces even the convictions of a Mao, a Stalin, or a Hitler. 

George W. Bush is nothing if not a man of his word. He never said we were going to war against Saddam… not until he had “made up his mind” (and that feat took a very long time). One memo or ten, a hundred or a thousand – they do not mean a thing. Of what account is the opinion of some “mid-level” British official who probably misspells “center” as “centre,” or writes “manoeuvre” when he means “maneuver;” who says the American Government’s case for war against Saddam sounded more like a “grudge between Bush and Saddam” than anything to do with purported Al Qaeda connections and phony Weapons of Mass Destruction-Related Activities? 

Bush is nothing if not a shooter – “West Texas style.” Think Judge Roy Bean, and the only law West of the Pecos. But today’s Pecos River – no doubt the result of some multi-billion dollar Army Corps of Engineers irrigation project – flows much wider and farther than it once did. The Pecos circles around the Globe – like a noose (you know, the kind those good ol’ boys in the Senate just apologized for having been a little too free with when it came to keeping certain equal but unequal Americans in line). Bush’s justice now fills the entire space that is enclosed by that new and much enlarged stream. The King’s writ runs everywhere, and the Pecos is now the Lethe – that river in Greek Hades that brought forgetfulness to the shades of the dead.

Shade of the Dead seems a particularly apt designation for a Presidential brain that hasn’t worked since some time in the 1940s. But forgetfulness is more on the mark. The latest Downing Street Memo – the one that concerns a dinner between Tony Blair’s Foreign Office Political Affairs Director, Peter Rickets, and Condoleezza Rice (who needs no introduction) – is a case in point.

This March 22, 2002 memo outlines a delightful bit of table talk regarding General George’s future plans. The idea that excuses were already being made, and plans being laid, for an  invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq several months before the American President asked the United States Congress to grant him the authority to conduct such a war – if necessary – is inconsequential.  

Didn’t Bush appear on TV, time after time, almost right up till the start of that war, to say that “he just hadn’t made up his mind yet,” or to insist that “war is a last resort?” Ah, the magic of forgetfulness!

The major news outlets – from the New York Times to the Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press – now tell us that the information contained in this, and other memos, is of absolutely no importance. Why? Simply because (despite the fact that prior to the start of the war, nobody from the national media called the president on his bluff about “not having made up his mind”) it was a well-known fact that George W. Bush was intent on doing precisely that – invading a nation that had not threatened the United States, had not threatened its neighbors, and had made no significant attempts to produce WMD.

You knew that didn’t you? Of course. We all knew that Bush was, West Texas style, Hell-bent on “takin’ out” Saddam. Hey, he’s even got the Butcher of Baghdad’s own personal six shooter up there on the wall in the oval office. He couldn’t put Saddam’s head up there too, ‘cause Georgie ain’t no Texidermist. Anyway, that so’ woulda looked bad for America’s rep-u-ta-tion a-broad!

It doesn't really matter if you find out that someone was lying if you already knew they were lying in the first place but just never bothered to mention it to anyone in the first place… well I mean, mention it in public, as in the press, or on TV (the Internet does not count because Texas Cowboys and Cowboy Wannabes don’t read nuthin’ ‘cept their own right-wing blogs.) 

This new line of “reasoning” is absolutely fantastic! Truly, it is something worthy of an Einstein, or a Newton, or perhaps even a Baron Munchausen – having been born too soon they just hadn’t yet reached the appropriate evolutionary stage. We are inestimably lucky to live in an age where truth is so readily transparent. Our President makes his secret plans (only they’re not really secret because everyone knows them), and all those among us whose job it is to hold George Bush, and other like him, accountable, just go along with the gag.

“We know he was firing up the missiles all along. We knew he was sending in the bombers and the aircraft carriers. You could smell war in the Middle East as clear as you could smell the cow pies at the Crawford Ranch… Big deal!”   

Hmm. Nostradamus had the forethought – and the sense of duty to his fellow human beings – to warn us of Bonaparte, Hitler, and the “Man in the Blue Hat” (George loves to wear a little blue baseball cap), among other destroyers of the Global Peace and Community of Nations. Nevertheless, the “scientifically-trained” modern reporter, commentator, businessperson, politician – you name it – has gone beyond the realm of the unseen; traveled light years from those timeless spaces of the Cosmos that are visible to the eye only by the light of Eternal Truth.

Yesterday was yesterday. Today is today. And tomorrow…?

Everything is relative.
 

Brian Adler is a freelance writer and an avid history buff. He writes/researches for a company that produces factual essays and reports on a wide range of subjects. He also writes screenplays and short stories. 
 

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