CEO Bush and the Muddling of American Minds
by Josh Frank
Dissident Voice
January 11, 2003
While Americans
were sleeping in the wee morning hours of January 8th, eight B-1 bombers began
their decent south to Oman, positioning for war. They are down there protecting
us from Iraq's potential danger to the United States. Even though chief U.N. weapons
inspector Hans Blix claims Iraq may not even possess weapons of mass
destruction.
But war is big
business, and President Bush is a businessman. His sputtering mind jostles,
"Iraq got oil, US need oil... Oil make money! War make money... Me like money!"
So he surrounds himself with oil-men, and military folks, 28 ex-Lockheed Martin
execs in his administration alone to be exact.
Being a
Harvard-MBA grad, CEO George knows who to surround himself with, and he
obviously understands marketing. He knows he has to suck the consumer
(Americans) in, and sell his product, in this case war with Iraq. He may have
crashed an oil company or two, but you can learn a lot from mistakes. He knows
he must disguise his true intentions of controlling Mid-East oil with his ol' advertising
scheme that equates Saddam with Hitler. He doesn't have any real competition to
contend with, the Democratic Party is complacently silent. Maybe its because
they don't think they've got a vastly different product to push, or maybe its because
those Lockheed Martin execs gave them more money last campaign season than they
did the Republicans, I don't know. Bush just isn't losing sleep over the whole
deal. Monopolies don't like competition, but that's okay, he doesn't have any.
No worries then
that North Korea most likely has nuclear capability and recently forced U.N.
monitors out. He's got the focus of Iraq going for him. It is even the craze in
Britain these days I've heard. This Saddam guy is bad! He's got nerve gas and
nuclear ingredients. No matter that the United States gases the Andes Mountains
in Columbia daily, ruining ecosystems, and families' lives. It's supposed to
help end drug proliferation, so that's okay. And we already know how to use our
nuke ingredients, but that's no big deal either.
With capitalist
techniques that Hitler actually did use, the Bush administration has managed to
control the debate, disregard dissent, and abandon all rationale. Millions
drive around with America's logo stuck to their rear bumper. Not knowing that
"United We Stand," is simply another marketing ploy, and the United
Nations is completely irrelevant when it comes to dictating US foreign policy.
War is
inevitable I am afraid. We've been at it in Iraq for over a decade now anyway.
The United Nations weapons team is just a sub-contracted company of USA Inc.,
so you'll see, we'll set them straight soon enough. But the mind-boggling thing
is--George Bush may be a good CEO after all. Maybe he learned from his
mistakes. A "good CEO," you might ask? I guess it just depends on
your own definition of "good."
Josh Frank is a writer living in Portland,
Oregon. He can be reached at: frank_joshua@hotmail.com