Illusions

There's a bit of clamor on the Web about the Bush criminal regime's impending attack on "Iran." The most recent example I have found is on Smirking Chimp, in which the author says that the attack will come very soon. He refers to an article in The American Conservative, titled War With Iran Might Be Closer Than You Think. Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker revealed The Iran Plans two years ago.

In February of last year I wrote about my friendships with "Iranian" students when I was in graduate school, with a bit of analysis of the Bush criminal regime's scheming and propaganda. I hoped to show that "Iranians" are people just like "Americans," and that the isolation and threats by various "U.S." regimes has its roots in the drive for empire and control of the planet. Our "CIA" helped overthrow the freely elected president of "Iran" in th 1950s, and installed the puppet dictator Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. He ruled with an iron fist, presiding over the imprisonment, torture, and murder of thousands until he was overthrown in 1979. The "U.S." has sought to undermine and subvert the "Iranian" government ever since.

One might ask, were one curious, just who or what the "U.S." is, fomenting so much death, destruction, and misery around the planet. It's not me, it's not you, and it's not anyone else I know. It's not the land, south of "Canada" and north of "Mexico," with a few disconnected properties such as "Hawaii," "Alaska," "Guam," "Samoa," "Puerto Rico," and "The Virgin Islands." And, of course, there is the forced "rental" of "Guantanamo Bay" in "Cuba." The land is neutral, not identifying itself with any human-created impositions. For example, "Pike's Peak" is a mountain in "Colorado," with its own existence, independent of being called "Pike's Peak." It might not even be that for long if our mining companies designate it for mountaintop removal.

If I or anyone else, and the land are not the "U.S.," then who or what is? If the "U.S." is going to bomb "Iran," then there must be a "U.S." to do the bombing.

We can figure that out by asking who it is that is ordering the bombing. It is the Bush criminal regime. A regime which came to office through vote theft, disenfranchisement of voters, deception, and a corrupt "U.S" Supreme Court. By taking advantage of its own negligence (or worse) in allowing the attacks of September 11, 2001, this regime has been able to invade two countries, threaten others, and weaken the country economically and and in its social and physical infrastructure.

If the Bush criminal regime is the "U.S" that will be commanding the attack on "Iran," we might want to further examine what it means. George W. Bush, the "leader" of the "U.S.," is an animal abuser, drug and alcohol addict, a corporate criminal, a gleeful executioner, election thief, war criminal, kidnapper, torturer, murderer, corrupter of our justice system, and ultimately the destroyer of the imagined empire.

The supposed "brain" and "muscle" of the Bush criminal regime is one Richard Bruce Cheney (Wow! I didn't know his middle name is Bruce), a draft avoider during the war against "Vietnam" in the 1960s, an advocate of the "white" supremacist regime in "South Africa," crony of Enron, former "CEO" and current benefactor of Halliburton, head of the Energy Task Force, and the fomenter of the exposure of "CIA" agent Valerie Plame.

Cheney's greatest crime, though, is his behind-the-scenes effort to cook intelligence to justify the invasion of "Iraq." The scheme is known colloquially as "stovepiping." The stovepiping continues in attempts to justify the impending attack(s) on "Iran."

Based on analysis of their personalities, both Bush and Cheney are sociopaths. Cheney may not qualify as having glibness and superficial charm, but in the portals of power his fake tough-guy façade is the kind of persona that is admired and feared. There is nothing in Cheney's past that indicates he is actually a tough guy, but that is the image he projects, the persona he has adopted.

The kings have no clothes. The leaders, the schemers of the Bush criminal organization are nobodies. It's all illusion, fakery, and posturing. Bush deserted the Texas National Guard and Cheney dodged the draft, yet they can order the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the destruction of entire countries.

These people are the "U.S." If such people can personify the country, then the country isn't much of an entity. It's an imaginary construct. As such, it is a house of cards at best. And, as with any house of cards, it is easily blown over. As easily, I might add, as it was for the Bush criminal organization to take it over.
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