The Walrus Was George: Riding the Magical Mystery Tour '06

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

by Steven Laffoley

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0327-20.htm

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The president is on tour because his poll numbers are down, for his presidency and for his dirty war in Iraq. After years of shock and awe terror, of Abu Ghraib torture, and of civil war undeclared, Americans are finally uncertain that 100,000 Iraqis dead are guaranteed satisfaction for September 11. They feel strangely empty on their three-year crash diet of dread, dismemberment, and death. And they are beginning to wonder about something altogether rare in America these days: they are wondering about the truth.

But this wondering gives the president the cold sweats. As Groucho Marx once noted in Duck Soup, we can't stop the war now because we've put a down payment on the battlefield. And besides, there are promises to be kept - promises to the angry Project for the New American Century Neo-Cons, and promises to the angry Energy Cabal, and promises to the angry Apocalyptic Religious Right.

So the president goes out on tour - a Magical Mystery Tour - to reignite the flames of national lunacy and to sing his seductive tunes of jabberwocky, madness, and mayhem.

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