in any decent society, george bush & co. would have long ago been marched out of the white house and into a prison to stand trial for their crimes against humanity. as deep as the waters are in new orleans, waters that have killed hundreds and possibly thousands because of bush's malfeasance, as deep and dark and deadly as those waters are; the floodwaters of blood he is responsible for are deeper still. that he, and rove and rice and cheney and rumsfeld and the rest (and yes that appeasing gutless bastard colin powell, who didn't have the balls to do the honorable thing when he had the chance, who sold his soul for the putrid pottage of fleeting political power) are still free is to the great and lasting shame of our nation.

as we don't have enough for which to hang our heads in shame.

but to talk of shame, of course, is to hate america. to speak ill of this country in any way, to acknowledge failings, past and present, is to prove that i'd rather the terrorists win than freedom prevail. to be honest about all this country does wrong is to spit on the flag, the hallowed graves of those who died for the noble cause, and on the democratic institutions of the u.s.a, the greatest work of mankind.

so the neocon death-cult spin-machine wingnuts say, but i say their words are fairly unintelligible because their heads are so far up their asses. to heal the body, you have to find and confess the disease. denial is death. bush is not the disease; he's a kind of symptom, a blood clot on the brain, a tumor in the belly, a blast of shrapnel to the face. healing will come when this particularly nasty symptom is removed and when preventative measures are enacted to safeguard from further occurences.

we are not a decent society. we will tolerate bush and let him get away with the slaughter in new orleans, just as we've let him get away with the butchery in iraq. just as we let him rule a government in which the majority -- remember democracy? so-called 'majority rule'? -- lead lives that grow increasingly wretched while a privileged few gain more and more from those who have less and less. he's a horrible human being, plain and simple, and this country is little better while we tolerate his ilk in our government: of and for the people? is this the kind of people we are satisfied with being?