BIKES, BUSH, BRUSH, RUM, GUNS, GERM & STEEL — by Steve Nadis
This just in from the Associated Press: While on vacation in Maine (note: how many articles about President Bush contain the word “vacation” in the first sentence???), George Bush went bicycling with three employees of the Cape-Able Bike Shop, ages 28 to 30, who were impressed with how fast Bush rode last weekend. “The president can really get it done,” commented the store’s service manager, Billy Vandervalk. When it comes to bike riding and brush clearing, evidently, the president does “get it done.” Too bad he doesn’t get it done on the things he’s actually hired to do. And it’s even worse when he does “get it done,” because what he does in such cases is invariably awful…
Which brings us to the latest ridiculous comment to emerge from the mouth of the windy Donald Rumsfeld, who compared critics of the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war to appeasers of Adolph Hitler. That’s a tough one to swallow, even for someone like myself who’s used to Rummy’s psychotic utterances. But if you think, as I do, that Bush and his lot are up to no good, just who are the appeasers: the critics of this misbegotten conflict or its unquestioning supporters?
So true, so unfortunately true. I was talking with a friend of mine who separated from the Army this year, and we decided that a Soldiers mindset on this administration (and the American public, debatably) should not be focused on what went wrong or is going wrong; we have only ourselves to blame for the current decision makers, and they will remain for another two years, regardless of our protests or cries for change. The Soldier’s mind should be on how do we then proceed from here to achieve said “mission”? And who should be the one to do ‘it’ in 2008? Those are the only questions we should be concerned with… but we aren’t. We are too busy watching the folly and pointing out the faults.
Folly is the right word, GS. I’m going to use it more often in this regard…