Bush’s Bunker Mentality On Display in Baghdad

Bush’s Bunker Mentality
On Display in Baghdad

By: Nicholas von Hoffman
Date: 7/17/2006

http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=13055&ic=Von+Hoffman

One reason the Iraqis don’t believe that the U.S. is going away any time soon is because of an almost breathtaking sight the miserable inhabitants of Baghdad see every day.

In the near distance there is a forest of cranes, part of what The Times of London says is the only American construction job on time and on budget in Iraq. The newspaper reported that “residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water” are furious as they watch the massive U.S. embassy rising in the city—a building that they say is bigger than anything Saddam Hussein built.

Who can say how that squares with Presidential declarations about the U.S. not tarrying in Mesopotamia, and more recent ones claiming that once the killing slows down to a dull roar, we’re outta there. Maybe President Bush doesn’t know that he is shortly to be the proprietor of a palace that is literally larger than Vatican City. Are we crazy or what?

In the sticky morass which is Iraq, no one can tell which statements are lies, which are ignorance, which are misinformation, which are bigotry, which are religious fanaticism, which are propaganda, which are oil-related and which are simon-pure insanity. The public here in the United States gets only fragments of news. The journalists, even the credulous rah-rah-by-jingo types, cannot be faulted, since they take their lives in their hands when they venture out from their bunkers to attempt to cover a story.

and bush has that embassy in Iraq -- a monument to human stupidity and cruelty, arrogance and inhumanity.

How fitting for DUH-bya and the Embassy.

When his sorry ass gets busted here... he will be near his buddies. He can be King of Iraq.