Last Sunday, the peace-crazy Germans returned Gerhard Schröder’s government to power, the first time that Germany has re-elected a leftist government to a majority.
Schröder accomplished this by running a campaign that in large part criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the current situation in Iraq. During the campaign, Schröder said that Bush’s policy was “playing around with war.”
Not surprisingly, Schröder has made steps towards a speedy reconciliation between the European power and the United States. He announced on Tuesday that his new administration would not include a justice minister who likened Bush’s tactics to Hitler.
However, Bush’s administration seems to be unwilling to forgive and forget. This comes at a time when the administration is waging an uphill battle on the European continent to build a coalition for Dubya’s private war.
It would seem fairly obvious that Bush would want to move beyond the rhetoric of an election campaign and continue on with this important task, but the National-Guardsman-in-chief has neglected the customary congratulations to the German Chancellor.
How seriously can we take the policy initiatives of a man who seems so haunted by the specter of a war fought in another decade by another administration?
With this in mind, the irrational and inapropriate actions of Dubya can be better understood. To this man, Iraq has hung on the distant conceptual horizon. It must be a deeply personal desire – within the entire Bush family – to oust Saddam Huessein from his seat of power that he has occupied while George Bush has been enjoying his retirement.
This deep, conceptual hang-up is nothing new in human nature. Rome launched a third attack on Carthage to wipe away the memory of their ancient rival, literally salting the earth so that nothing would ever be able to grow in that city again.
As the world community continues to become smaller and smaller, the Bush government seems striving to become more isolationist. Not very surprising, considering the man is from Texas.
Bush’s continued hardline stance is obviously a sign of the coming apocalypse. It’s in revelations, people! Soon the four horsemen will arrive and we will all stoop before the seat of judgement, many of us, including Bush and his belligerent Secretary of Defense Donny Rumsfeld. To hell with them, though…literally. We’ll be relaxing in Des Moines.
Remember, Christo(sp?) once wrapped the Reichstag in plastic!
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