Does he want to build a mountain of skulls on the white house lawn? Does he want to fill a swimming pool with the blood of the innocent? Does he want to craft a suit from the flesh of the slain?
It seems as if nothing will satisfy him. Like a cancerous mass, he consumes all that is good and living and replaces it with vile death and decay.
What once was the integrity and honor of a great nation has rotted away to a fetid death's-head, its grinning rictus gazing upon the world with eager watchfulness. Teeth bared, it prepares to rend more flesh, drink more blood, shatter more bone.
This is what we have let America become. Our glory lies in tatters, torn to rags by the hands of unscrupulous men. Where once stood monuments to liberty and freedom and goodwill to another, Bush and his slime-drinking ilk have erected tributes to greed, hate, and destruction.
Corporate America exploits the poor, the working class, and everyone that isn't of the 'elite,' and pulls the strings of politicians behind black curtains. Job security and respect for the worker have become a joke. Rather than uphold the ideals of a country where life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the corporation decides to defile our country, pollute the earth, and rake money in hand over fist.
The pursuit of the almighty dollar has guaranteed that any unconscionable action will eventually be justified. Whether it is tax breaks to the wealthy, moving all of our jobs overseas, slashing jobs here without a second thought, there will always be some pathetic justification for it.
The right-wing propaganda arm of the white house, the so-called media, has rolled over obediently for their masters in the corporate hierarchy. Now all that you can see or read in the news is more white house talking points, coated with slime and bile, reeking with the foul stench of vomited up lies. Truth is smothered and beaten to death before the clubs of the brutish thugs who run the show, seeking to stifle any voices of dissent in the media. Keith Olbermann, John Stewart, and Stephen Colbert are left standing as the light in the darkness of a media empire built on greed and lies.
Our 'enemies,' who are they exactly? According to Bush, it's anyone that he personally decides is the enemy. He is the decider, after all. And if he decides that you are the enemy, you can expect to disappear to one of our secret prisons, where your only companions will be torture and intimidation. People laugh and say it will not happen to them, but look at what happened to Jose Padilla! It could happen to YOU next. Bush has the power. What makes you think that he will never use it?
Sure, we can say what we like now. We can practice our freedom of speech, we can be angry in public, we can cry our outrage in the streets. For now. Bush has unprecedented executive power. Congress has not moved to stop him. It would not take much for him to use that power to end our ability to express ourselves so freely. Will we wait for the day to come when WE are rounded up as traitors? Will Congress continue to stand by and do nothing while Bush carries his war on Freedom directly to the American people?
Meanwhile, those who are supposedly men of god, spread messages that read out of the darkest books of the Old Testament. Lakes of fire and blood, created by the righteous hand of America Almighty, drown and wash away the 'enemy,' anyone who is of Arab descent. Unless they have oil, and want to share it with us, of course. The pulpit of truth and tolerance and love has been smashed and brushed aside, and a new one has been built in its place. Bone, sinew, and dried blood compose this pulpit, the spot from which the masters of darkness can spout their revised new testament, their covenant with evil.
Jesus is no longer the prince of peace, but the master of hate and destruction. The frenzy of hate and greed that has erupted among the Christian right is a perfect compliment to the blood-lust of our president and his wretched master, Dick Cheney. Not only must we hate the Arabs and all other Muslims, but we must also hate homosexuals. In our supposedly advanced modern era, it is still okay to hate gays. That discrimination, hatred, even violence directed at homosexuals is still largely tolerated and in some cases promoted, is a testament to the true darkness of the times in which we live.
I am saddened to see my religion perverted and debased in such a way...to see something that could bring out the best in people transformed into something that not only brings out the very worst in people, but celebrates it. I am saddened that my country has become a place where profits and greed are more important than the lives and happiness and security of American citizens. I am saddened that this president is moving toward another bloodbath of a war, built on lies, while Congress enjoys a nice VACATION. I am saddened and I am angry.
When will Bush's lust for blood and torture end? Will he never be sated? He sleeps at night, untroubled, untroubled by the screams of all those that have died because of HIM. This man, this president, has made a mockery of all that was once great about America. He is our dark side, everything evil we could be, exists in him. Arrogant. Greedy. Dishonest. Stupid. Bloodthirsty. Violent. Self-righteous. 'Religious.' A hypocrite of the highest degree.
Please, Congress, stop this man from shedding more blood! Do not let him attack Iran! Do not cause more innocent people to die because of this sleaze! Impeach and remove this evil man before it is too late! America depends on you to stand up for what made this country great in the first place: truth, justice, rule of law, and equality for all, not just some. Perhaps it is a fool's hope, putting faith in Congress now. But it is the only hope I have.