The Hollow Men

Posted on Friday 26 May 2006

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw…

The Hollow Men
T. S. Eliot (1925)

The blogs are all over the emptiness of the Bush/Blair "apology" yesterday. I’m not so sure that Blair is quite so guilty as Bush. He seems like a decent sort, caught up in something  that he didn’t understand – making wrong decisions about who to trust. Not like our brat King, who doesn’t have the capacity to understand or make thoughtful decisions.

Steve Soto has a picture posted on the left coaster that says it all:

It’s really not about his politics. Bush is only the pawn of his more disturbed cohorts. It’s about his character, or the lack thereof. We elected a major brat to the presidency, twice. He shouldn’t be there – never should have been there.

How did it happen? How did the combination of Clinton’s misadventures, Rove’s tactics, A.E.I./P.N.A.C.’s paranoid neoconservativism, and the ascendency of the Religious Right come together in such away to allow this cosmic plague to be delivered to us? That is the question…


Also from Steve Soto of the left coaster, the audience reaction to Bush’s press conference with Blair:

 

  1.  
    May 26, 2006 | 10:46 AM
     

    ach! TS Elliot, I was hoping for The Cult:

    …I see a hollow man, gun in hand, gun in hand, it points my way, oh
    You know, he follows me everywhere and everyday, I gotta get away
    I won’t miss him if he goes away and stays away, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    He’s just a hunter for the devil…

  2.  
    Dawn C.
    May 26, 2006 | 2:54 PM
     

    What struck me, was “We did not find the WMD that we ALL believed were there.”

    I wonder, which piece of neocon-propaganda they base that “belief” on.

    The 45 minute claim? Chalabi/Curveball claims? Aluminum tube-lies? Mobile weapons lab lie? Judith Miller booga-booga? The Dodgy Dossier? Or (possibly) the FORGED NIGER DOCUMENTS? Am I missing something? Is America swallowing this? Nobody challenged this carefully-choreographed claim…

    It was like a puppet show, Mickey, staged to reinforce and slightly revise the “old-same” lies, and to remind US that the reality-based-community (and the TRUTH) are insignificant to them. How Brazen.

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