Reeking with his usual fetid stench of hypocrisy, on 6/8 Bush crowed:
"Zarqawi personally beheaded American hostages and other civilians in Iraq. Now Zarqawi has met his end and this violent man will never murder again."
George Bush may have little interest in studying the complexities of humanity or the world, but he ranks as one of the foremost aficionados of murder and revenge. As governor of Texas, he presided over 36 of the 98 executions perpetrated by the entire United States in 1999. He demonstrated the depths of his sadistic depravity when he openly mocked Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman Texas had executed since the Civil War.
"The ideology of terror has lost one of its most visible and aggressive leaders. Zarqawi's death is a severe blow to al Qaeda."
Let's take a moment to dissect the propaganda.
Note how Bush characterized terror as an ideology rather than a coercive means of achieving political change. Portraying terror as a sociopolitical system proliferated by adherents dedicated to usurping Capitalism and "democracy", America's sacred cows, keeps many Americans sold on a perpetual war.
With the "threat" of the spread of Communism (a true ideology) virtually extinguished, the Machiavellian leaders of the United States crafted a "new and improved" amorphous and ubiquitous enemy. Virtually anyone opposing their ideologies of Capitalism, Fascism, and Zionism are cast as "terrorists".
Bush cast the die shortly after 9/11 when he quickly moved to implant a false dichotomy in the shaken and vulnerable collective American psyche:
"You are either with us or you are against us in the fight against terror."
Continuing with the analysis of Bush's remarks concerning Zarqawi, consider his assertion that the United States struck a severe blow against al Qaeda. This is simply laughable. Zarqawi will become a martyr. Scores of radical Islamic militants will trip over themselves to take his place. And devastating retaliations are a virtual certainty in the seething cauldron of rage and hatred America has created in the Middle East.
Can you say moral quagmire?
Iraqi Resistance fighters are struggling to expel foreign invaders who are slaughtering innocent civilians. While their videotaped executions, roadside bombs, and attacks on Iraqi civilians are heinous and despicable, how is it that America has the moral high ground?
Let's review for a moment. Bush's doctrine of pre-emptive war, the non-existent WMD's, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, Fallujah, Haditha, the use of depleted uranium" On second thought, the United States appears to be miring itself in moral quicksand.
Who is better off with Zarqawi dead?
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