Who would not be fearful of the rockets being launched by Lebanon against Israel these days?
A little six year old would. And so would every child living in Lebanon, and in Israel, and in Palestine, or anywhere in the world. And so would every adult with any sense in their brains.
Those images on our television screens of bombs falling on buildings where there are people living inside them are enough to terrify anyone... Those pictures of ripped to pieces buildings, people, halfway obliterated, which permeate our television screens these days are enough to cause alarm and agitation; they are enough to make anyone fearful, and concerned, and aware that what Condoleezza Rice, , and others call the New Middle East "birth pangs", is nothing more than a massacre. Plain and Simple.
And, plain and simple, all of those images on the television screen are enough for the world to cry out: ENOUGH! Yet, there are those who get a rush from all the blood letting we witness day after day, night after night, so the birth pangs play on, and no CEASE FIRE is called for, and a childless woman who talks about birth pangs plays a somber piece on the piano and calls it a prayer for peace, and the bloodshed goes on, and the military/industrial complex and the Bush government send their weaponry to Israel, and Israel bombs Lebanon and reduces it to rubble and Hezbollah sends their rocket to Israel, and Bush pockets the profits of war, and the Merry-Go-Round goes on.
Somewhere inside Lebanon two captured Israeli soldiers must be listening to the bombs and the cries in the dark ... somewhere...what is their heart saying to them?
Why, I ask, does John Roberts stand in front of the, Lebanon-poised, fire-power rocket-launchers, life-snuffing Israeli artillery?
Does he, and CNN, and Ehud Olmert, do they want the world to root for them just like the world of the l950s rooted for the American Army in every war movie ever put out by MGM, TWENTY CENTURY FOX, RKO PICTURES and others?
Are they in the business of making idealized images of a war which should not be?
There is something to be said about "reporting" news. But why do these images seem more like propaganda to me?
All of these images and subliminal messages of the, "WE ARE THE POWERFUL" kind, have me going back, in my mind, to the Bushes-to their glorification of war, to their family's history of war profits and profiteering as documented by historical facts, and to the very, self-adulatory, portrait of their lives that they like to feed the public.
These television images also have me going back to facts which speak to the Bushes fear of bombs, munitions, and other weaponry.
The Bushes love for money made from the sale of munitions may go all the way back to WWI, when Samuel P. Bush, George's paternal great-grandfather was named chief of the Ordnance, for the Small Arms and Ammunition Section of the War Industries Board during WWI, all thanks to the connections between his son, Prescott Bush, Prescott's soon to be father-in-law, reputed stockbroker and corporate wheeler dealer, George Herbert Walker, the Averill Brothers... and others who found their wealth advanced considerably due to the war and the sale of arms and ammunition.
This Bush love for wars and the money made from them also goes back to Prescott Bush, who in WWII "aided and abetted the enemy" by helping to finance Hitler's war... something the filled his coffers to the brim and more.
And then there is young Poppy's fascination with dynamite and winning... for wars and for flying planes, traits which he seems to have passed on to his son, young George, who became an Airman in the Texas National Guard, is reputed to have liked to catch frogs and then blow them up with a stick of dynamite as a young child, and likes to currently call himself, The War President.
But, be that as it may... and despite the great accountings of suffering or heroic claims made by Poppy in the different versions of his authorized biographies or campaigns literature relating to the events of September 2, 1944, in which he portrays his plane the Barbara II as being engulfed in heavy fire and smoke over the waters of Chichi Jima, making it mandatory for him to bail out of his plane and impossible for him to rescue his two crewmembers (Webster G. Tarpley, George W. Bush: The Unauthorized Biography), it appears that there was more of that old, "alarm and agitation due to the expectation of danger" in other words, plain old fear, that governed Bush's bailing out of the plane without attempting to rescue his two crewmembers than any heavy fire or smoke sustained by his plane, according to Chester Mierzejewsky, rear turret gunner in the plane ahead of Bush's who states that he saw "'a puff of smoke' come out of Bush's plane and quickly dissipate" (Webster G. Tarpley, George W. Bush: The Unauthorized Biography).
It also may be safe to say that George Herbert Walker Bush likes bombs and firepower falling on him as much as the next person does, which is to say, he doesn't.
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