A simple message

April 12, 2009 · Filed Under National Politics

Why is it that we Americans feel our lives are so terrible? Our hardships so unbelievably hard to bear and our paths in life are extremely difficult and always uphill.

We were told that our freedoms were being eroded away by the Bush administration. That in some deep concrete bunker was a team of people and computers listening to every conversation you ever had. Across town swat teams stood ready to swoop in and grab you off the streets and begin the long egregious process of freedom decontamination because you dared voice a dissenting opinion.

Every available mishap, mistake and bad deed was proof positive the Bush and Cheney team was running this Gestapo state. People in government who cried aloud with opposition were never heard from again. Of course no one ever disappeared but the Neo con war machine had ways of shutting you up.

President Bush couldn’t shut all of you up of course; brave souls did speak up every day on every channel of the radio, TV and internet forum there is. Such brave patriots decried Bush and exposed him for his lies and told the world such fantastic stories that only a true patriot would know.

These true americans were a busy lot, too busy to see Bushes true effects on the world. They missed the part where his actions saved untold millions of human beings in Africa by his direct leadership. They had no idea that the human shedder in Saddam’s palace has been stopped and gathering dust, the rape rooms silenced and 50 million Muslims are now free to pursue their happiness. They may have seen the unearthed mass graves of innocent men and women but quickly passed it off because there was a storm brewing in Abu Gahrib.

While private investigators looked into Bushes involvement with the planes crashing into our buildings he was too busy propping up the badly wounded economy and sending it off for a 52 month run of positive growth. When Katrina hit and the reporters asked the local government in charge what happened, the ‘news gathers’ were oh so gleeful to skip all the way up the chain of command and ignore the facts that led to such a calamity. President Bush couldn’t worry about others and their stories when he had so much to do. Massive manpower efforts had to be called in to do the job that just a few hundred (now flooded) buses could have.

The whole time these events were going on a little boy plays soccer half way around the world. He’s learning to read and write now which is remarkable because he’s never had access to a book, computer, TV or a radio. He hasn’t heard all these stories about George Bush. He only knows that women used to disappear from his neighborhood, and that brave men who sad bad things about Saddam would suddenly be gone as well. He didn’t have any hopes or aspirations for his future but he didn’t have any vision of what it could be like either. Hardships and despair were his daily struggle and pleasures were few.

usagood thankw A simple message He doesn’t understand all of what happened he only knows that America and the great people from there came to his country to make things better. He understands the concept of a leader as that was all too apparent under Saddam. So he knows that Bush caused his people to come and that Bush is the one who helped him and he is thankful. Such a simple boy who has only a simple message. One we’ll seldom see but one hopefully we can come to appreciate as this little boy grows up and his generation tells their story.