We Are All Harry Whittingtons: By David Michael Green

[kpete]

Published on Thursday, March 2, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
We Are All Harry Whittingtons
by David Michael Green

How does it feel to have a shotgun blasted in your face by two guys with almost as many DUIs as draft deferments?

Just ask Iraqis. For that matter, just ask Americans.

Both countries are unraveling now, if at different velocities, and the cause is the same for each. The sheer incompetence of George Bush and Dick Cheney is eclipsed only by their pathological compulsion to externalize their own self-loathing, both of which maladies have now been fully visited upon an unprepared and now – literally and figuratively – much tortured world.

On the day after September 11, 2001 (as distinct from another September 11, in 1973 – the day that America launched a surprise attack on democracy and human rights in Chile and installed the murderous twenty-year Pinochet regime in a bloody coup), the lefty paper Le Monde gave voice to France’s empathy for America by headlining its edition with gracious words of solidarity. We, of course, repaid in kind just a year later by trashing them viciously (remember “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” and “freedom fries”?) for having the audacity to think invading Iraq might be a bad idea.

“We are all Americans”, Le Monde said. Hmm. Maybe then. Certainly not now. Today, we are all Harry Whittingtons.

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[Melissa G]

1. Yes, They expect the American people to apologize for them shooting us in

the face also.We should grovel and be grateful they are our friends...Who needs Bin Ladin for an enemy with Shrub and Cheney for friends..We have all been Cheneyed!:puke: