George Dubya’s theme song

By Henri D. Kahn

Ho Ho, Ho Ho, it’s off to war to war we go
The bombs will fall like winter snow
I’ll send, John, Joan, José and Beaux
Saddam will eat a lot of crow
And goody good good cause I won’t go
Ho Ho, Ho Ho!

Hendrik Hertzberg, writer of "The Talk of the Town," a regular feature article of the New Yorker magazine, made an incredibly astute observation about President George W. Bush’s national presence.
His statement, although not verbatim, was that George W. Bush gained the Presidency, not by a mandate of the people, but by a panel of judges, and he was ordained with power by Osama Bin Laden.
His current thirst for war is not a surprise to any inquisitive, concerned American who has discovered a recently-issued government pamphlet entitled "The National Strategy of the United States of America." The pamphlet states, essentially, the G. W. Bush doctrine to deal with what he and his seven dwarfs (to be named later) perceive as an imminent threat to national security.
First, it stresses preemption over deterrence. Pre-empt means to take for oneself, to replace with something considered to be of greater value, to seize upon to the exclusion of others. All of these descriptive phrases boil down to attack and kill, a.k.a., "WAR."
This bible of war goes on to state that traditional concepts of deterrance will not work against a terrorist enemy whose avowed tactics are wonton destruction and the targeting of innocents.
I tend to agree with Mr. Bush; however, his is applying this concept to dealing with a country 7,000 miles away without any definite proof that Saddam has the weapons and/or the capability to launch a nuclear and chemical attack within the borders of the USA.
The United Nations finally passed the resolution Bush wanted to satisfy his thirst for military aggression after he and the seven dwarfs were able to obtain the cooperation of some Arab states, China, and Russia. What a coup, Dubya!
I shudder to think how many billions of American dollars we will be paying to purchase the cooperation of the holdouts!
Now for the seven dwarfs: Doc - Dick Armey, Bashful - Colin Powell, Happy - Dick Cheney, Grumpy - Don Rumsfeld, Sleepy - Condoleza Rice, Sneezy - Art Achcroft, Dopey - Trent Lott. Sorry, Snow White is nowhere to be found around this bunch of warmongers.
George W. Bush reminds me of an Al Capp cartoon character that was depicted as a scraggly guy with a black cloud constantly overhead. This character, like Mr. Bush, portrays the epitome of plain old bad luck.
Superstition perhaps, but ever since this former owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team popped-up as a political figure, every aspect of his attempts at leadership have turned into mud.
He left the State of Texas in pretty bad financial shape. Now, if you don’t believe that, ask Governor Perry to give you the real skinny about money troubles in the Lone Star State. He has taken his black cloud with him to Washington and we have gone from surplus to deficit, terrorism has flourished horribly in this country and throughout the world, investors in the stock market have lost vast amount of money, unemployment is over five percent. The current black cloud is his insatiable desire to gain popularity as a Warlord.
Black cloud? You bet!
Finally, here is the regression of promises made by candidates for political office: Out of the chute -- I will! Crossing the finishing line -- I might! Once in office -- I couldn’t!
Pray for peace, everybody.