By David R. Hoffman
Perhaps the most disturbing ability of human beings is the ability to rationalize anything. And this ability tends to rise in conjunction with the level of irresponsibility or stupidity an individual is attempting to justify.
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Evidence of this reality has been painfully clear in America since the start of the new millennium, which ominously began with the coup of 2000, and the illegal occupancy of the White House by George W. Bush and his inept, deceitful, corrupt cabal of warmongers.
Almost immediately after this coup, Bush apologists leapt into action, endeavoring to rationalize everything Bush did, from his election thefts and shredding of the United States Constitution to his use of torture, rendition, and illegal detention. According to these apologists, the failure to prevent the September 11, 2001 attacks was not the Bush dictatorship’s fault (despite the fact that it was responsible for national security at the time). Instead these attacks were blamed on Bush’s predecessor Bill Clinton. And even during the twilight of the Bush dictatorship, after nearly eight years of arrogance, deceit and incompetence had culminated in two lingering wars and one of the worst recessions in decades, these apologists still attempted to blame Clinton for all the nation’s ills.
But with Barack Obama in the White House, suddenly the tune has changed. The rallying cry of the former Bush apologists has now become, “You can’t blame George W. anymore.”
If this isn’t the pinnacle of hypocrisy and speciousness, it would be impossible to explain what is. To now blame Obama for the mendaciousness, idiocy, hypocrisy, corruption and ineptness of the Bush dictatorship is like blaming a legitimate physician for failing to immediately cure an infection that a phony physician not only caused, but also neglected to treat.
The United States does not begin anew with each election. The Bush dictatorship’s “gifts” to Obama, besides the wars and the recession, were a detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, an amoral judiciary dedicated to destroying the Constitution, a shredded Bill of Rights that no longer protects America’s freedoms, and a cadre of torturers and war criminals who believe they are above the law.
Sadly, the infection spawned by the legacy of the Bush dictatorship is now plaguing the world. In Iran protests have erupted over the results of a disputed presidential election, inspiring America’s politicians and corporate-controlled media to respond with “righteous indignation.”
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