Items 6, 7, and 8 above are all about covetousness. As David coveted Bathsheba, so did Bush, Cheney, and Company covet the wealth and power that their offices and associations granted them access to.
Items 1, 4, and 5 above are all about intimidation, as is the fear that they continually ramped up over the anthrax attack, and the heightened terror alerts, color coded so even George W. Bush would understand them. The Busheviks use of fear was morally identical to a stick-up-artist's use of a gun: to intimidate and make you react, not think. They pulled out that fear card in 2002 and 2004, just before the elections, and it worked. In 2006, it failed miserably.
Items 2 and 3 above I feel have the most interesting motivation: indifference. This is not apathy, but rather a disdain for the customary reverence which most Americans have for human life and our Constitution. It is not their children, grandchildren, or their friends' offspring who are dying. It's hillbillies from Appalachia, blacks from the ghetto, and Hispanics from the barrios: you know, the little people. The United States Constitution for the Busheviks is only a “quaint” document; something to be invoked against their opponents at election time, and ignored when it gets in the way of what they want to do.
Uriah the Hittite had the misfortune of serving a man, King David, who placed his lust ahead of loyalty to his captain. And dearly did King David pay for his transgression: knowing the death of a son, no peace from his foreign enemies, and no comfort in his own house.
Uriah's Curse is the inevitable curse to all men and women when they are governed by venal individuals, who place thoughts of power, glory, and wealth ahead of the needs and the hopes of those they govern. It is visited upon a nation and its people when they forget to exact punishment on those venal individuals for those individuals' misdeeds, as a lesson for the future. It is only dispelled when an object lesson is made of these venal governors; a lesson that our children and our grandchildren can take to their hearts.
Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez, and the rest must be that object lesson, even if the heavens should fall.
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