On his Sunday night radio show, The Eggman signaled that the right-wing noise machine will devote much of the next week to loudly crucifying California Senator Barbara Boxer for stating on CNN that George II is a "loser."
Boxer was speaking in the context of Iraq. As did Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid before her. She is, as was Reid, of course 100% correct. Iraq is lost. And it is George II who lost it.
In truth, Boxer's charge is understated. For Iraq is far from all that George II has lost.
Below the fold, find a modest attempt to track the totality of the deprivations inflicted upon the United States, and the world, by George W. Bush . . . The Loser.
First, the soon-to-be-bellowed-across-the-AM-dial Sunday exchange on CNN between Senator Boxer and the disgusting Lindsey Graham, GOoPer senator from South Carolina.
GRAHAM: And the surge is in its infant stages. Everyone’s not on the ground yet. It’s our last best chance. Let’s don’t undercut it. Let’s don’t declare this war lost, because you’re telling Petraeus and all these soldiers that Barbara just talked about they’re losers. They have not had the opportunity . . . .
BOXER: I don’t know anyone who opposes this war that ever said our troops are losers. Our troopers are winners.
GRAHAM: Harry Reid did.
BOXER: Excuse me. He never said our troops are losers. Now, Lindsey, just be careful what you say. The bottom line here is, the losers are the ones who have, you know, engineered this war, made a huge mistake, Dick Cheney, we’re in the last throes, the war will last six months, and all of you who have supported this escalation and have turned us away from fighting al Qaida into putting us in the middle of a civil war . . . . So don’t say anyone calls them losers. They’re winners. The loser is the commander in chief who has not led our country well.
Well said, Ms. Boxer. Proud to call you my senator. And you are right. George II is indeed a loser. And he has indeed lost Iraq.
He has also lost Afghanistan. Where he long ago lost track of Osama bin Laden, together with any "concern" about finding him.
On September 11, 2001, George II lost the lives of more than 3000 Americans. He has since lost the lives of more than 3000 Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the lives of more than 100,000 Iraqis and Afghans. As "collateral damage," he lost from the lives of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people the presence, forever, of these people, once living, now, of the will of George II, dead.
Thanks to George II, his foolish British ally Tony Blair lost control of his government. Thanks to George II, his foolish Italian ally Silvio Berlusconi lost control of his government. Thanks to George II, his foolish Spanish ally Jose Maria Aznar lost control of his government. Thanks to George II, his foolish Pakistani ally Pervez Musharraf is losing control of his government.
George II lost for Syria a chance at democracy.
George II has lost the friendship and support of Russia. He has lost the friendship and support of Saudi Arabia.
George II has lost the opportunity, once again, to prove to the world that the white people who own and control America will give something even remotely worth a damn when black people become the victims of genocide.
There is more.
He has lost America control over its own economy. He has lost the American dollar its supremacy over all other world currencies.
He lost his party control of Congress. He is losing control of his party in Congress.
He has lost the confidence of the American scientific community. He has lost the confidence of the American academic community. He has lost the confidence of the American intelligence community. He has lost the confidence of the American military and diplomatic community.
Thanks to George II, the American people have lost confidence in the American judiciary. They have lost confidence in the independence of their federal prosecutors.
They have lost confidence in George W. Bush.
With his evisceration of habeas corpus, he has lost America's connection to some 800 years of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, stretching back to the Magna Carta. And as he metastasizes throughout the federal government his bizarre and damn-dangerous "theory of the unitary executive," he has lost America's connection to its roots as a Republic, in favor of an Athena-from-the-head-of-Zeus form of government rooted in German barbarism:
The Germans had always been inclined to substitute the authority of a single leader for written law. Even in the days of the Romans they had considered that a code of laws applicable equally to all men was contrary to the honor of individuals. They preferred to be judged by the decree of one superior person, in whom they trusted, rather than by definite laws, drawn up by the dictates of reason. Unfortunately, their Leader approved of murder. Rules were no more than cobwebs before a machine gun. A brief turn of the hand, and whole libraries of former rules became waste paper.
With his "black prisons," his "enemy combatants," his "extraordinary renditions," his rejection as "quaint" the Geneva Conventions, his globe-trotting torturers, he has lost America its reputation as a place where human rights are valued and protected.
He has lost all connection to truth, to morality. Nothing, now, is beneath him: not even intoning unconscionable, knowing lies about a man he personally ordered be tortured.
Long, long ago, George II lost any respect he may have ever had for the lives of living creatures. He lost the ability to empathize with others suffering pain. He lost his moral compass: reveled in mocking those that he, personally, would ensure be put to death.
He has more recently lost the stomach to watch, up close and personal, the death and misery that proceeds from the working of his will. He still wants it to happen, but he doesn't "wanna" see it.
I work in criminal-defense law. I find it very hard to justify sending just about anyone away. But I am losing the ability to argue against the conclusion that George W. Bush has lost the right to live his life outside a cage.