Bush the Blockhead

At his news conference on 4 December 2007, George W. Bush, sitting American president, turned in a performance that left much to be desired, to put it mildly. The big news of the day was the NIE report clearly stating that Iran had closed down it nuclear programme since 2003. Bush shucked and shuffled. No matter what the report said, he had his own ideas about a country that he dubbed 'an axis of evil'. Evil it was; evil it is, says he.
Bush has a long-established track record of distorting the truth, dissembling, and without a blink lying. The questions from the room full of journalist offered hardly hard queries. At one point, Mr. 43 admitted that he couldn't read the questionner's body language. We all know Bush's ability to read body language let alone the state of others' soul. Think of his remarks about Putin and Musharaff. And of course his judgment about the great job Brownie was doing in the wake of the Hurricaine Katrina debacle! At this press conference, the more Bush spoke you would've expected him to grow long donkey's ear and hee haw like the street tough in Disney's 'Pinnochio' as he kept telling falsehood after the other.
The day had other non-surprises. During the Democratic candidates debate everyone but Kucinich and the plain-spoken Mike Gravel side stepped questions on Iran. Lord love former Senator Gravel: he pinned the tail on the Democratic donkey by saying the awful truth: Iran had shut down its nuclear weapons programme 4 years ago. So why pussy foot around the matter?
And then there's the editorial in 05 December 2007 grey lady of journalism 'The New York Times', which offered a word of caution. Has no one the courage and the boldness save Gravel and Kucinich to say that 'the emperor has no clothes' and naked he is as a jay bird? Apparently not...no profiles in courage in this lot.
As for the war party: John Bolton fulminated; Cheney huffed and puffed; and the grand pooh bah Poderetz flatly contested the NIE reports finding without offering a shred of proof.
The grand American public shrugged off the report with its usual lethargy. Its truth might've registered but the public at large hasn't the will to shout loudly and act in protest.
America's political culture is poisoned by the waters of fear and retaliation, and the cloud of wanting to know nothing smothers minds. When will the winds of change clear out this pollution over the land, and the big broom sweep out of power these rascals?