Reply #28: The Day America Lost Face

[SpiralHawk]

May 3, 2003 -- high up on the flank of Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch, NH, the Old Man of the Mountain lost his face -- literally -- the day after Bush pulled his pilot-with-a-codpiece stunt on the aircraft carrier Abe Lincoln ("Mission Accomplished").

I was struck by the sequence of events. Bush prances on Abe Lincoln deck, the noble Old Man loses face immediately thereafter. WTF?

Bush Prances Carrier Deck in Flight Suit - May 2, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2993415.stm

Old Man story - May 3, 2003:
http://gonewengland.about.com/cs/nhhistory/l/bloldmanof...

For New Hampshire -- for all who had ever seen him -- the collapse of the granite face was a First Class tragedy, for the Old Man was a symbol of honesty, dignity, and honor. He seemed eternal.

I always thought of the Old Man's profile as embodying the same noble qualities as "Honest Abe" Lincoln, whose profile is so familiar to us from the penny. Thus I was deeply saddened to see him "lose face," and could not help but note that it came immediately after Bush pulled that bald-faced PR stunt on the deck of our nation's Abe Lincoln aircraft carrier.

After lying to America, our soldiers and the world, what right did Bush have to celebrate himself and "Declare Victory"? Hundreds of our soldiers have died and been wounded since that day, not to mention the ongoing misery for their families at home and the families in Iraq.

At the time I took this monumental loss of face in the Granite State as a straightforward revelation that the appointee-in-chief was disgracing himself, comporting himself without honor.

After all, as we now know the Iraq war is based completely on BushCo fabrications. Further, Iraq had no connection to 9/11. This is a war of aggression and conquest, supported by Bush's fat cat oil corpobuds. That's why our young men and women are dying over there -- it has nothing to do with national defense.

I also see the loss of face of the Old Man of the Mountain as an Omen that George AWOL Bush will eventually lose face before the citizens of the USA. We shall see.

- EOM -