September 21, 2006- The Mirage

   The last few days, we have seen quite the party going on in New York City, and no, I am not talking about the Yankees and Mets clinching their respective divisional titles in the world of baseball, although they whooped it up quite a bit over at Shea Stadium the other night, but the other big party going on there. That party is taking place at party central, otherwise known as the United Nations, where diplomats are always partying on the taxpayer's money in the guise of meetings and the like. This week, leaders  from all over the world are there to address the assembly about this and that, whatver plays the best politically back home, although one dude seems to not have a home to go back to as the Prime Minister or whatever the fuck he was of Thailand was kicked out of office while he was partying in New York  and is no longer running the country, but the rest of the gang are having a high old time making speeched and the like. We had the Iranian President talking about things there and lecturing and chiding the West about their tactics, and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela went up and called President Bush "the devil" amonmgst other things in an anti-American, anti-West tirade where he seemed to be trying to throw in as many derogatory names for the leaders of thes elands as he could, everyone is getting their moment in the sun. Of course, if these Third World dudes are getting chances to address the assembly, President Bush could not be far behind, and he wasn't, he addressed the assembly the other day. he did not go on some wild name calling spree like Chavez did, or deliver a University  style lecture like the Iranian dude did, but Bush was just as political as them. He did things like address the people of places like Iraq, Iran, Syria, Darfur Sudan, trelling them the greatness and glory that is theirs if they would just follow him. One part of the address was spent talking about what the American military has been doing in the Middle East, according to Bush, that's nothing but good, but he addressed a concern that he had about how America's actions are being perceived by the rest  of the world.  he spoke of the people that say that America's actions have "destabilized" the Middle East and brough chaos and death to it. Bush said that anyone that thinks like this is misguided because that theory centers on the assumption that the Middle East was stable before America went there. Bush said that any assumption of this was a "mirage", that the Middle East has not been stable for decades because it has been overrun by tyrants that "trapped the people in oppression and hopelessness." He gave the example of a poor Muslim youth that is now 21 years old and sees "his peers" around the rest of the world going to vote and  voicing their opinions in their respective governments, while the Muslims  have to stay in oppression, being "fed propaganda and conspiracy theories that blame others for your country's  shortcomings". He spoke of extremists that tell these kids that they can escape the misery and regain their dignity through violence and terror and martyrdom and the like. Bush said that was the "dismal choice" that so many kids faced every day and that's why they act like they do. He said that this was not any kind of stability, that what America is bringing to the region is stability, so his critics are wrong, as usual. That was when he went into that shit where he addressed the citizens of so many countries, none of whom were watching or listening to what he  had to say for sure. According to Bush, evcerything that we saw in the Middle East prior to his Administration was merely a fake and a sham, just brutal dictators ruling with iron fists and keeping everyone down through the use of force. Bush seems to feel that no matter how these countries were doing, that this was not stability, that stability can only be brought through freedom and democracy American style, and that is what his benevolent mission in the Middle East is all about, and anyone that thinks otherwise is mistaken. Seeing  what the Middle East is these days, that is a mighty strange assumption, every bit as strange as the one that the area was stable before. However, Bush did not address that, along with a host of other things in his speech the other day, leaving an awful lot of questions  to be asked as to just what the fuck he is talking about here. If you look closely at the entire situation, you see not just one mirage, but several of them all over the place.

   One thing that falls unbder that category is the fact that these tyrannical leaders that Bush spoke of got to where they were in many cases because of the help and intercession of the United States. Saddam, the Shah of Iran, Gadhaffi, all these dudes got helping hands from America to become leaders in the Middle East. The fact is that America has been hand picking Middle Eastern leaders for over a century now, no one that they don't like gets in unless there's some kind of subterfuge. Saddam and Gadhaffi became enemies when they stopped doing whatever Washington wanted them to do and pursued their own agendas, like any head  of state does. once those agendas clashed with Washington's, then it was time to kick them the fuck out. As long as a leader did not cross Washington, he was free to do as he pleased, as rthe Shah of Iran proved for so many years. that dude was no freedom loving democrat, he was a styrannical as anyone, he oppressed his people brutally for decades and denied them many freedoms. However, he was cool to the USA, so Washinmgton did not care about that, as long as he let Mr. American Businessman into Iran to make lots and lots of money he could do anything. The "stability" that Iran had under him was as much a mirage as any others, but since it was a mirage brought about by the USA, it was OK.  Bush did not address that fact, nor did he address that fact that Washington set the same type of scene up with saudi Arabia, that continues to this day. Saudi Arabia is not free by any meaning of the word, there is as much tyranny there as anywhere else in the Middle East. But the Saudi Royals have not turned against America, so that mirage stays intact. Only the mirages that were not favorable to Washington have been attacked and assailed by America, showing the double standard. There has been nothing in any Middle Eastern country for the last century plus that has not been the doing of America in one way or another, so these mirages that Bush spoke of are American creations by and large. It is only when that mirage starts going counter to Washington that it becomes a mirage, before that, it was reality. This policy has led to utter failures in the past and has brought the region to where it is today but Bush refuses to adderss that. There seems to be one kind of tyranny that is acceptable and  another that is not, even when they both employ the same tactics and mindsets, the difference being where America stands with that government. So if the Middle East is full  of mirages like Bush says, he can just look on the walls of the White Hosue and see the reasons why in the pictures of his 42 predecessors,because many of them are responsible for that situation being like it is. America has blindly pursued a policy  for decades that is solely based on money and not  anything else, and that is why so many dictatorships have sprung up in the region this last century. With all of the oil money that the region has, there should be no reason for tyrants and dictators and such, because things like poverty and hopelessness fuel that shit. However, since Mr. American Businessman has taken the majority of that oil money for himself, poverty and hopelessness is exactly what we have there, andf that's why so many dictators have sprung up. If the oil money was spoent wisely and used to actually help the people, the region would not be in so much chaos all the time, but once again, Bush forgets that part. He makes it all seem like it is the fault of Islamic Holy Men and such that this is the case, and not that of America and its policies. The Holy Men only freak out so because they see the money being taken away from them and sent to America and not them, so they get pissed and start trouble. Anyone in the same situation would do the same and Bush knows that, as America has known it for decades. That is why so many mirages have popped up on the Middle East because everything is based on false pretenses to begin with, so nothing solid could possibly come out of that. However, we all know that Bush feels that he is changing that daily with what he is doinng in Iraq.

   He says that what America is doing there is giving those hopeless people and kids the hope that they so badly need, hope to start a new life and all that shit. He points to the elections and such as proof of that, calling  it progress. The fact is that those elections did nothing to change Iraqi society, all they did was enrich a bunch of local hacks and toadies. When the dictators like Saddam were around, the country did not have people being killed in the streets at an alarming rate every day, even if they were not technically free. Now that America has come, the lid is off of all sorts of shit and all bets are off. Iraq is sliding  into Civil War whether Bush thinks so or not, and Iran, Syria, and Lebanon are not far behind. There is less stability in trhe region now than there ever has been before, even during the Crusades. The Christians did not fuck up the Muslimn societies so badly that they became non functional like what America has done to Iraq, no one, not even the most brutal dictators in the region, did that. Bush says that this is all a transitional process, that soon, Iraq will be stable again and this time it won't be a mirage. He compares it to the founding of the USA, which was essentially founded through war and chaos ,but eventually became stable. He says that the same will come to Iraq is everyone just is patient, but once again, he leaves shit out. America was founded in the 18th century when the word was a very different place. Fighting an overseas war like England was doing with America was extremely non cost effective  and a drain on society. Nowadays, America has such a huge tax base that they can afford these follies and are doing so very well thank you. England had great incentive to give up the ghost and let America be and benefited from doing so greatly. America does not have any incentive other than political ones to give up the ghost inb Iraq and get stability, so  they are not goling that way at all. they don't want Iraq to be a soverign nation like America became  in the 18th century, they want a puppet state that they control themselves. Stability to them is defined as having absoulte control over Iraq and nothing else. England conceded control to America and that was what made America stable, but America will never concede real control to Iraq so it can never be stable. That is why what Bush says in comparing the two situations is bullshit of the highest degree. He knows that Iraq cannot ever be stable as long as the USA is there, abnd that is exactly what they all want there. He just wants to raise a generation or two of Iraqis that are mere puppets and stooges of the USA and that is the stability that he wants, nothing different than what every dictator in the region wanted. All he wants is more of that oil money as much of it as he can get, and stability be damned. He and Washington do not care if the Iraqis kill each other wholesale every day for years to come, as long as the USA gets that oil money, everything is cool. He says that he wants to erase that old policy of America creating mirages in the region, but in reality, what he wants is to create a new century of mirages in the area.  In fact, Bush is perhaps the greatest mirage maker that the area has ever seen in millennia, for the mirage that he creates is one of freedom and democracy when it is actually a reality of more oppression and hopelessness. He just won't tell those kids to be suicide bombers and martyrs and shit, just to be American puppets, that is like the only difference. Bush is a mirage master of the highest degree and the mirage that he creates is worse than any other previous one ever was. So his self righteous speech the other day was the usual bullshit that he spouts all the time, nothing new, nothing different, nothing to give those 21 year old kids that he spoke of any real hope at all, just another mirage in the desert. He tells the same shit to the American people, and if the latest poll numbers are any indication, they are starting to buy it big time, as his support has gone way up these last few months.

   Of course, he wants to create the largest mirage of all time in the region, because that is good for all his pals and cronies and those are all he ever cares about. He plans on extending the mirage all over the region so that America can take over once and for all. He also wants to extend the mirage to the homefront in America so that everyone is under his spell. He cares not about the consequences because he knows that in just over two years from now, he goes into retirement, that is, unless he becomes Commissioner of baseball, and no one can do anything to him ever again. So Bush pushes the greatest and largest mirage of all time in the region, something that he is an expert at and has done all his life. For the entire story of George W. Bush is a mirage in itself, starting from his silver spoon background to his "career" in the military and his phantom jobs in business, right up to his becoming Governor of Texas and themn President, jobs that he was not at all qualified for. So Bush knows all about mirages, because his entire life and everything that he stands for is one, and mirages have been very good to him indeed. So he knows first hand how to make a house of cards seem like a fortress, and he is doing so in Iraq as best he can. He knows that he only has to keep the charade up for a little while yet and  he's in the homestretch so he's putting the full court press on big time. He knows that the mirage that he is creating is no better than any of the  other ones ever created there, even worse  actually. He knows that the mirage that he creates serves very few, but they serve the right people, so they are cool and he intends to keep right on creating them until he retires and probably after then too. It takes a product of a mirage to recognize one, and Bush is certainly that, and his mirage has been a nightmare not only for Iraq and America, but for the entire world as well. he intends to keep that mirage going  as long as he can and using any tactics to do it too, and that is why there is zero stability in the region now. Real stability is contrary to making money, so Bush knows that he has to keep Iraq unstable at all times so that money  can be made hand over fist. The more unstable the region is, the more money is made, so instrability is the namewof the game here. Stability is the mirage, because if it is real, then everyone can catch on to what has really been going down, and Bush and co. do not want that at all.They need  mirages just like they need instability and terror to keep going, because since they are all mirages themsleves and  not real, they need that scene to keep ahead and coninue  to rule. So when Bush speaks of mirages, perhaps he should just look into a mirror and he'll see the greatest mirage of all time, but he knows that, so he never will. Instead, he'll continue to force mirages and the like onto everyone else on the planet, because that is the  only way that he and the likes of him can ever  get ahead. Stability is their enemy, mirages their friend. So we can never expect to see the stability that Bush promised those 21 year old kids, because they are of no consequence to him, just using them and everything that they have as part of his mirage is all that maters to him. The results of that can be seen all over the Middle East and should soon be spreading to the rest of the  world  as well. Just like a real desert mirage, the ones that Bush creates are just figments  of imagination,and just like the real desert ones, they are a portent of death for whoever sees them, not by thirst like you see in the deseret, but by that oppression and hopelessness that Bush spoke of, as long as it is him and his people doing it, it's all OK, and that's the same mentality that the tyrants and dictators that Bush rails against had, proving that in reality, he is no better than any of them, just a mirage out in the middle of the burning sands and  insane heat not of  a desert, but of the madenss and insanity that spawn the likes of Bush and his cronies, and that is far worse than being stranded out on the desert somewhere, because this mirage concerns everyone on earth, not just one unlucky traveler starnded in the desert somewhere.

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