When Will America Awaken from "The Bush Ultimatum"?

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When Will America Awaken from "The Bush Ultimatum"?
Submitted by mark karlin on Sat, 08/11/2007 - 7:49am. Editorials

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

If you don’t like a thinking-person’s action film or don’t want to know some of the details of the just-released "The Bourne Ultimatum," then stop reading here.

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When the credits for "The Borne Ultimatum" roll, we have been temporarily given the hope that the evil "Masters of the Universe" (read Cheney, Bush, Gonzales and Rumsfeld) have been exposed and brought down.

But then you realize, as your eyes hit the first news stand and you read about Congress giving the discredited perjurer and "torture boy" Alberto Gonzales control over spying on Americans without a warrant -- and that generals are predicting an indefinite stay in Iraq -- that reality is far more harsh than fiction.

The Bush handlers – particularly Rove and Cheney – offer us a fiction of a noble, benevolent empire. "The Bourne Ultimatum" symbolically reveals the tarnished and betrayed integrity of our nation that has been compromised by the reality of what is being done in our name and disguised, with the help of the corporate media, by an endlessly unfolding "Scheherazade" White House narrative. It does it in an adrenaline-paced thriller that tells a symbolic story.

Isn’t it tragically ironic that in a Hollywood movie -- a fantasy -- reality and morality triumph over men of dastardly hubris, while when we leave the fictional film we enter a world not of political truth, but a world of another deadly fiction – one in which the cover-up continues?

In the real world we walk back into, the masters of war and diabolical schemes that cut the heart out of our Constitution are still casting a spell upon the nation.

Reality will, one day, hit America very hard, alas, very hard indeed.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

[zabet]

1. Awaken?!?! Hell, I haven't slept in almost 7 years!!! n/t