Investigate Bush
by Bill C. Davis
They're investigating Hastert and Foley and Reynolds and Fordham -
they're investigating rumors. They get to say and print taboo exchanges as
if they are bits of news and evidence. Anchor men and women have to work
on
their delivery of ****o dialogue and then cut to commercial. *** sells.
But the ****ography of dead and maimed young men dying in an
unnecessary and criminal war gets relegated to the scrawl beneath the
tabloid festivities. These young men who are reduced to numbers - 21 in
the
first five days in October - are maybe four or five years older than
congressional pages, some of whose biggest concern right now is deciding
whether to talk to CNN or MSNBC.
In the 90's it was assumed bombs were dropped to divert from a ***
scandal - now we have a *** scandal that is diverting from a savage,
vicious
war that is being revealed to be a calculated crime. As those revelations
try to reach critical mass the national consciousness is chewing on
***ualized instant messages between predator and prey and in some cases
between two different types of op****tunists.
One has to wonder if any of these pages are signing up to fight in
this war that the people they deliver messages to voted for. One wonders
if
any one in Congress urged any of the pages to sign up for a tour of duty
in
Baghdad. They voted for this war - they surrendered their exclusive right
to
declare war and gave it to the president who talked dirty to the country
and
to young soldiers - and now we have the instant message - war is the
biggest
obscenity. Using soldiers as mercenaries is molestation. Investigate Bush.
There's a statue in Lafayette Park in Wa****ngton DC called Military
Instruction. It is the image of two **** men doting on a sword held by the
younger of the two men. It's an unconsciously ***ualized image clearly
honoring the tradition of an older man teaching a younger man how to use a
weapon. The instant message of that bronze work of art is - kill. The two
bonded men with the weapon between them are heroic in their disposition to
each other because there is an instrument of death that their eyes are
fixed
on. If they were looking into each other's eyes the statue would be
****ographic. The weapon rescues it from being sick.
The Foley scandal is worth one day of news and lots of therapy - for
everyone involved. The attention that needs to be paid is to the war. Why
it
happened? Who let it happen? Who lied to make it happen? The Foley scandal
sadly creates fodder for comics - the war creates fodder out of our young
citizens and the Iraqi people. Only Bush knows how to make jokes out of
that. ("No WMD's there." as he looks under a drape.) Investigate Bush.
They're looking for guidance from Bush as to how to investigate this
scandal. They look for a comment from him. "Dismayed." "Disgusted." Two
American soldiers were dragged through an Iraqi street and set on fire in
retaliation for the rape of a 14 year old Iraqi girl and the murder of her
family by American soldiers from the same company. Bush put those soldiers
there - the ones being killed - the ones killing and raping - they didn't
need to be there. He's disgusted by the Foley scandal? As the instant
messenger for this war, he's relinquished his right to be disgusted.
Investigate Bush.
Bill C. Davis is a playwright. www.billcdavis.com
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