March 28, 2004, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Bush presented a "comic" slideshow of himself looking for the missing Iraqi WMD's under his Oval Office Desk.
He sent hundreds of thousands to their deaths, destroyed whole communities, wreaked havoc on a nation of 25 million...and then went out of his way to make a joke of it. If that ain't the devil, what is?
And it needed to be said. Out loud. On television. Before an audience of world-wide public officials. Because to merely point out Bush's failures as a leader is insufficient to capture the gravity of that which his leadership truly represents. Robbing from the middle class to give to the rich, ignoring undeniable evidence that the planet is becoming less hospitable to human life, launching unprovoked wars that unleash the mindboggling slaughter of innocents -- and joking about it -- this transcends poor or even wrong-headed leadership. This crosses into the territory of satanic.
And someone had to stop being polite and call this spade a spade. If no one of influence in this nation will do it, I'm glad the president of Venezuela said it.
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