Furious Biscuit And The Lap Dog From Hell
by Don Nash
Dateline May 17, 2007. George Bush admits “responsibility� for the fall of Tony Blair. Wow-oh-wow-wee and whoops there it is! The George and Tony Show live from the Rose Garden and when pressed by British media, Bush admits it’s “his� fault for the demise of America’s favorite lap dog. Ah poor doggy. One should never get off the porch to run with the Bush dogs of war. Feckless curs will pee all over your leg and then make for a distant shore. A distant shore with loads and barrels of unexploited oil.
From Babylon On The Potomac, it’s the farewell goodbye from Tony to George. From George to Tony. Kissy, kissy. Love ya babe! See you in the dock. That of course would be the dock held currently open for George and Tony at the International Criminal Court, Hague, the Netherlands. Or Holland if one is of the more common and uncultured sort. America can’t seem to shake itself of the Brits these days. Damn QEII one day and Tony Blair the next. Next thing you know, Sir Paul will want to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom and America won’t be able to get him out of it. Someone better get Washington, D.C. a flea collar. Hey, that might work on the U.S. Congress.
So Tony Blair came to the White House, on the tab of the British taxpayer of course, so what’s up with that? Blair and Bush needed some “alone� time to salve their mutually bleeding Iraq war wounds and of course, share fond memories of shock and awe, illegal rendition, illegal detention, the sounds of torture, slaughter, genocide, war profiteering, the death of freedom, pat one another on the butt, and shore up their alibis. That “stodgy intelligence� albatross still hangs around their necks to this very day. Can we all say “Downing Street Memo?� Remember when George and Tony thought it would be funny as hell to bomb Al-Jazeera? Oh that George and Tony, they’re pretty fun guys. Yup, kind of like two rabid dogs on the sneak attack.
Quoting the official White House “Joint Press Availability� and “available for immediate release Office of the Press Secretary�, George Bush calls Blair “a good friend.� Yup. Why, as George and Tony were sharing some quality time on the Truman balcony just last night, it dawned on Bush “what a clear strategic thinker he (Blair) is.� Now that’s a ringing endorsement if ever there was one. George also says that Blair can “see beyond the horizon.� Would that be foresight? Um, maybe not so much foresight as foreboding. Gosh, if Blair can “see beyond the horizon�, how come the lap dog didn’t give the world a bark about the Iraq war turned quagmire turned civil war turned blatant genocide? Tony must have been keeping his ‘over the horizon’ cards pretty close to his vest. George and Tony are fairly nauseating if they are anything at all. Well, and that murderous part.
The remainder of the Bush/Blair love-fest is mostly banal ass kissing and mutually assured blah, blah, and blah. George assures us all that Blair is “the kind of leadership the world needs.� Yikes, right and Mussolini weren’t so bad either. George and Tony talked about “Afghanistan and NATO and a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine and actively engaged diplomacy� and swill, spin, hype, pure bullshit, and oh so much ado about nothing. Bush and Blair didn’t address their war crimes even when pressed by British media.
With global leadership the likes of Bush and Blair, it’s probably damn lucky we haven’t incinerated ourselves in a nuclear flash fire that would end all life on our planet as we know and love it. The world is rid of Tony ‘lap dog’ Blair, can Bush be next? Or Cheney and either way, we’ll all be better off and there will be some truly painful lessons to digest. That will take some time and serious introspection. Circumspection? Political circumcision?