Little Bang Theory

So a couple of days ago as I listened to WAMC public radio out of Albany, NY, on came a recording of a speech before the Commonwealth Club of California by Former UN Ambassador John Bolton. And let me tell you, in case you missed it, he was beating the drums of war against Iran. Bigtime. As though we were all going to die horrible deaths at the hands of our enemies unless we acted immediately, screw diplomacy, fuck sanctions, don’t waste your precious time in useless dialog, just nuke the Godless heathens before they eat our children!

It was more than a little disconcerting, being a verbatim Déja Do of the run-up to the clusterfuck war in Iraq.

Perhaps the most disturbing thing about hearing this amoral turd addressing a group of Concerned Americans was the reminder that these people, Bolton, Gonzales, choose your poison gas bag, don’t go away. They get caught lying to Congress, cooking the books, manipulating intelligence, whatever, and they “tender their resignation to spend more time with their families.“

BULLSHIT!

This type of evil doesn’t go away. It just slips into the shadows, changes its hat and continues to do the only thing it CAN do, which is to spread its lies, its messages of division, its petty distractions even as it fellates its Corporate Masters, steals from the poor, stuffs the coffers of the Filthy Fucking Rich.

Does anyone reading this actually believe that Carl Rove is out flying kites with his grandchildren???

On the Iranian Front, we’d best all keep our ears to the ground and our “pens” at the ready. According to Scott Ritter’s “Target: Iran,” we’re already at war with Iran, carrying out myriad covert military operations in-country even as this misAdministration claims to be pursuing political means of attaining its vaguely hegemaniacal goals (albeit without the senseless encumbrance of dialog.) My greatest fear at this point is that the Iranians will retaliate militarily, we will of course have to “respond vigorously to this unprovoked attack on America,” and we’re off and running on another War of Aggression. Only this time, since we don’t have the troops to spare, we’ll send in our Might Mighty Air Force, carpet bomb them from a safe altitude, kill millions of innocent people and become, as if we haven’t already, a deadly pariah in the eyes of the Entire Fucking World.

This scenario is way more than possible; it’s all but inevitable. And it will be orchestrated by Poison Gas Bags like Bolton and Rove and Cheney, the shadow government which is really steering our Ship of State, the liars who own our media, manipulate the message, make things happen from the shadowed realm to which they retreat when they’re caught breaking the law, trashing the Constitution, lying to Congress, or killing countless innocent people.

It falls to us, to you and me and anyone else who Gets It, to follow these animals into the darkness, to bring our torches, to shine the lights of Truth and Reason on their lies and crimes.

Hoo Boy. This ain’t gonna be pretty.