Behold this pseudo-king who crumbles, why are we not surprised? A tongue-tied manikin is he, frozen in the unforgiving lense of history. Observe his movements out of sync, his strangely lifeless eyes. Observe his smile pained and strained, a shallow smirk of nothingness. His speech ever-scripted gropes high and wide each vanishing verb -- lacking wisdom's grace and depth of empathetci verve...

...Hear ye each the repetitive "I," the petulant "Me," the impatient "We." Hark, a groan escapes his fawningly false Gepettos, toiling lo behind the boy-king's throne, sycophants and sentries to vague sobriety. "What have we wrought?" they murmur darkly, these enablers of his fantasy. "The king is but a clown, as all the world knows true. Gladly does he lo our bidding do, but forever is seen the hapless fool to be..."

...This hollow boy, who thinks himself beloved, brave and bright, becomes a beast and burden to our nation's dimming light. Hangs heavy he, a witless albatross, 'round fattened necks of those who sow the kingdom's growing loss. It is they will now decide his fumbling fate, to their true master must they bow -- like the once-enlightened Colin Powell...

...Greedy tentacles extinguish nigh a fiefdom's tarnished shine, his own courtiers now do worry, whine, whisper and sigh: "Throw him to the dogs, the sot! Enough, enough of pseudo-Camelot." In life, a liability this boy of bush we see. But brutal absence may their next solution be, how better thus promote such tainted legacy? How sooner feed the gods and timely monsters these, when done they are with boy's utility?

..."Upon whom can we yet blame his fatal demise, how can we still serve Cheney's secrets and lies? Ah! Let the crime be laid upon dissidents and domestic foes; from their deep despair will we reap the ultimate prize before the world can long surmise. Until not one of them is left, and all are rightly silenced, nigh."

...Thusly will the puppet not be remembered as the total feint was he -- but brutally then a sainted martyr be. His dénouement approaches lo, as history unfolds. The dead must serve their master's play, while we the living bear his brunt of fate. Behold, a pestilence descends upon our nation's head. What more can trembling subjects do? How many painful ways can truth be said?

canardtahiti June 27th, 2007 11:34 am

Great Prose...
You just forgot the 'terminate his authority' and 'jail the treasonous bastard' part...

To canardtahiti:

Thank you! While reading this the thought was running-who best to recite this? The rhythm is wonderful.

Merci, klever. I'm hearing a Greek chorus on this. Or the witches of Macbeth, lol.

Thanks simon. Actually I wrote this back in 2004, but the bastards should have been jailed right after 911, if only for criminal negligence. Alas, few were prepared to recognize bushcheney 911 crimes back then. Times are a-changin.

Thanks merkan... war whores, agents of Darkness, all. We are reaching a culmination point. I fear for us all. It is truly "the dying of the Light."

CHAIN THE CORPORATE BEAST!!

Scheer (Chicken Little) wrote: ...further documentation has emerged proving that, even during failed wars, the merchants of death profit.

Duh! George Bernard Shaw wrote "Arms and the Man" over 100 years ago when this was known. Now we have "new" documentation? Stop the presses! I'm not interested in tired recycling of universal knowledge, I just want to stop it!

More, canardtahiti, more! If you are not a professional writer, you should be. The delightful lilt of Shakespeare without having to look up the meaning of obscure words! I say you work your butt off and give us a full length play - what say ye, m'lord? or m'lady as the case may be...

Make it illegal to make a profit on weapon manufacturing, and see the end of war.

M'lady thinks this Ron a man of merit be, his compliments do make me blush more sweetly than the honey bee, more deeply than the bluest depths of yonder sea. As dusk now falls across lo distant mountain peaks, shall I begin the task of putting words to thoughts of bloody deeds these cheneybush piranas (sp) may yet insinuate upon our planet's fate.

I recall the famous quote from Eldridge Cleaver: "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."

Here's the NEW quote: "The problem is, we're the solution."

It has been proclaimed by at least one president and by others that "the business of America is business" no qualifications and so why should one be surprised at the greed behind the war in Iraq? These corporations are doing precisely what America has proclaimed its real purpose to be. There was a time when some things did not have a price tag on them, the non material things but not anymore, everything is for sale including once good names, honor, morals, ethics, body and soul. It has become more so since Ronnie and the GOP kakistocracy gained power. Who will change the rules? Don't look to anyone in the religious right fold to suddenly discover the meaning of the ten commandments and act on them. The Democrats are mute on controlling the antics of its corporations, business is too "sacred". Maybe those folk in Vermont who want to secede and start the second Republic of Vermont will succeed and start a trend?

Bravo canardtahiti! That was a treat reading your prose (lens and piranha).

I would say John Conyers will be busy for quite some time. And Halliburton is so arrogant, they didn't even try to obfuscate their thievery like Enron did.

Dafoe, I read about the move in Vermont to secede. Didn't secession have something to do with the Civil War?

Dylan, Bob, wrote, "Politician got on his jogging shoes. He must be running for office, got no time to lose. He been sucking the blood out of the genius of generosity. You been rolling your eyes, you been teasing me". Greed is the fuel that ignites that desire for power. It puts you into a quite vicious cycle and requires your denials and rationalizations to keep you playing. Sadly, America is full of willing participants.
Hoa binh

Gee, does Nancy Pelosi know about this? Why this seems, I dunno, almost, well, illegal. Perhaps we should look at the bright side, think of the added punishment to all those small time hoods wasting away in prison for stealing cars worth $30,000 when Dicky Boy and Co. steal tens of billions, get caught and laugh in the face of the law.

And I wouldn't bet a nickle that there is not a numbered bank account in some unpronounceable venue, compliments of Halliburton and /or KBR, that belongs to Vice and awaits his retirement.

Cheney (the corporate beast)

Remember that when Halliburton was caught in the 1990s violating federal law by doing business illegally in Libya, Iran, and Iraq, Chairman Cheney said he did not believe that the government had the right to tell corporations where they could operate or with whom they could trade. Sort of like having better things to do when his country came calling during the Vietnam War. Sort of like ignoring the rampant conflicts of interest when he handed out, without normal procurement procedure or oversight, no-bid contracts to Halliburton, a company which still had him on its payroll. As usual, neither US, foreign, nor societal laws apply to Dick Cheney.

In the Confucian tradition, following the insights of Mencius, when a person ceases to feel the natural sentiments of compassion and shame he/she ceases to belong to the human community. A typical cause for the destruction of these human emotions is greed. Cheney and co. have long since fallen out of the realm of human. In Chinese there is a phrase "Not even on par with the beasts!" I think this is an apt epithet, for to call Cheney a pig would be to insult the species of swine.

..."And the pig got up and slowly walked away."

Government-Media Propaganda conjures a false reality.

It is vital that Americans finally grasp that there is no Government and Media. They are not two separate entities, they are one and the same. The Monopoly Media is the Government, and vice versa.

Our Ruling Class is the Government-Media and they create a pseudo-reality tailored to fit their agenda. We are heaped with lies and propaganda disguised as "Cultural Values" and "National Interests" that have nothing to do with the average American, and everything to do with the interests of our ruling elite.

The Common Good has never been the paradigm of our "Government."

The business of business is government and control of the masses. Corporations are a device behind which our ruling class hide and anonymously manipulate "National Policy" for their own self-interest.

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Very Interesting to read here in comments that there is a move in Vermont to secede. I for one in Minnesota, thought we should secede after Bush stole the election in 2004. Hell, we have a port and could become pretty much self sufficient. I think other states should consider this as well. I also thought maybe Canada would adopt us too, as an option. The country seems too big and is not manageable. The people have no power the way the established system is set up.

This article is alright but begs the question, normal people don't sign a contract without garantees, usually pay only one half up front. Just why isn't our congressman considering suing to get our tax money back and perhaps looking into penalty for fraud.

When the rewards are great, the risks are great.

But not for the likes of Dick Cheney. He collected his reward upfront. Hundreds of Millions from Halliburton. This very clever man doesn't move until he's carefully assessed everything that risks him personally. He went ahead and betrayed his countrymen anyway, so be assured that Dick feels very confident that risks to him personally are minimal.

What risk can you imagine that will impinge on Dick personally?

Impeachment? That's off the table.

Dick is a Mechanic (Card-Shark) employed by the HOUSE. He deals from the bottom, top, and from his underwear. But he delivers the "goods," and Nobody who is Anybody is going to cutoff his ability to deliver the "goods."

Ditto for Bush.

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All these posts are great. canardtahiti: why don't you apply some of that wordsmithing talent to write some lyrics in a more modern tone for some high-profile artist to record?

Before the 2000 election I delved into the sorry life of George Jr. It was obvious to me then and lavishly proven since then that little Georgie was a political commodity that just could not be abandoned by Republican Party. It made no difference to them that the jerk probably couldn't even organize a pick-up softball game.