Rochelle Riley: 'Calling Monica Lewinsky — nation has a special mission for her'
Posted on Friday, February 17 @ 10:21:56 EST
This article has been read 2063 times. Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press
Where the heck is Monica Lewinsky when you need her?
Since the only crime in American government that can lead to impeachment appears to be a White House tryst, perhaps we can hire her to take on Bush appointees who would lie, cheat, deceive with impunity and leave clueless Prince George, whose father cannot save him, mother cannot protect him and brother appears to have abandoned him for not helping his political aspirations.
First, the president faced the wrath of inept former FEMA chief Michael Brown, who claimed that the Bushies ignored his warning that Katrina would lead to massive flooding and that the feds have forsaken domestic preparedness to fight the world.
Then the CIA's own top counterterrorism analyst, Paul Pillar, accused the Bushies of "cherry picking" intelligence to justify the war.
Oh, there was one other thing: Vice President and ultimate gun hound and war whore Dick Cheney -- well, he shot somebody. Then he dared anybody to ask him about it for four days.
As the week progressed, I felt ever sorrier for the president, who appears more and more flustered by the events. He is the spitting image of the fictional commander in chief on the Fox TV hit "24," who never quite seems to know what's going on and, when he finds out, becomes a deer caught in headlights.
I can imagine the conversation after Cheney shot Harry Whittington, allegedly at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Andrew Card: Mr. President, a man was shot an hour ago while hunting with the vice president. You were eating, so I waited to tell you.
Bush: Uh, thanks Cardie. But I'm still eating. ...
Karl Rove: Uh, Mr. President, I gave you another 30 minutes for dessert, but I need to tell you that Vice President Cheney actually did the shooting.
Bush: Uh, thanks Karl. Somebody pass that along to Scotty McClellan, but it can wait until morning.
The lights have finally come on at the frat party that has been the six-year reign of Prince George. Bush was elected on a morals platform. But his team, all lords of war, took advantage of our shock and despair after 9/11 to push an immoral, deceptive agenda that even the president doesn't quite understand.
What will it take for Congress to unite outside of party lines and investigate White House practices on lobbying, intelligence and war?
How many more billions of American dollars will be spent to develop other countries while ours is in chaos?
And while the lords of war play at Armageddon, they still haven't caught the one man who claimed responsibility for 9/11. As was so eloquently said in the film "The Usual Suspects": "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
In this case, Osama bin Laden has had help. The more America chases ghosts and lesser demons, riling entire religions and cultures against America (while Iran develops the bomb), the more danger we're all in.
So somebody please give Monica a call. Her country needs her desperately.
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