Mahatma Bush

[kentuck]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-solomon/mahatma-bush_b_16508.html

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Evidently the president's trip to India created an option too perfect to pass up: The man who has led the world in violence during the first years of the 21st century could pay homage to the world's leading practitioner of nonviolence during the first half of the 20th century. So the White House announced plans for George W. Bush to lay a wreath at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi this week.

While audacious in its shameless and extreme hypocrisy, this PR gambit is in character for the world's only superpower. One of the main purposes of the Bush regime's media spin is to depict reality as its opposite. And Karl Rove obviously figured that mainstream U.S. media outlets, with few exceptions, wouldn't react with anywhere near the appropriate levels of derision or outrage.

Presidential rhetoric aside, Gandhi's enthusiasm for nonviolence is nearly matched by Bush's enthusiasm for violence. The commander in chief regularly proclaims his misty-eyed pride in U.S. military actions that destroy countless human lives with massive and continual techno-violence. But the Bushian isn't quite 180 degrees from the Gandhian. The president of the United States is not exactly committed to violence; what he wants is an end to resistance.

"A conqueror is always a lover of peace," the Prussian general Karl von Clausewitz observed. Yearning for Uncle Sam to fulfill his increasingly farfetched promise of victory in Iraq, the U.S. president is an evangelist for peace -- on his terms.

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[LynneSin]

1. Ok, now I need to clean up the tea sprayed over my monitor

:spray:

Gandhi, without a doubt, would be rolling over his grave, of course if he was actually buried in a grave!

[shain from kane]

3. Yes, I think it's more appropriate to say that

he's rolling down the river.
I know, I know. One bus ticket to hell for me.

[TahitiNut]

2. To confer the honorific 'Mahatma' (Great Soul) on Cockroach Bush ...

... is really an obscenity, in my opinion, no matter how contorted the sarcasm.

[bryant69]

4. They are in a different universe, presumably

One in which this sort of nonsense makes sense.

Bryant
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