Of Course, I Meant "Tomorrow" At The End of My Last Post in the Symbolic, Figurative Manner

And, besides, I was in mourning. For our nation. I just don't know what we're all going to do, now...

Without further delay, allow me to present the final installment of my fictional conversation between Richard A. Clarke (remember him?) and The Mr. President, at the White House... set in those care-free days sometime in July, 2001.

Richard A. Clarke: But allow me to inquire: if it's the Islamic militant fundamentalists we fear so much, which is understandable, why are you fomenting the Christian-Right in the U.S. to continue with their nonsense? Why are you empowering them?

GWB: Me empowering them? Heh heh... you got that a little bit a-reversed, dontcha, Boyee? Where we gonna get the soldiers, Son? We can't count on just the patriotic and the broke to unsuspectingly join the Guard, can we? A month or two at Ft. Bragg turning into two years very much elsewhere... but if ya survive, and if yer smart.. and well-connected... yer in on the ground floor of financial opportunity, Iraqi-wise. Even if ya got nothing left on yer arms be-low yer elbows, mebbe! Who we gonna call? Just the Cho-loes? Or the Af-ri-can-A-mer-i-cans..?. There's only so many Marines we can get out of those people... they're still a minority, ya know, even though we keep a-tellin them on the tee-vee that they've got jest plenty ta spare, all the time...

RC: But won't invading Iraq cause the Islamic world to hate us all that much more?

GWB: Not if we're quick.

RC: Well, the only thing that would divert immediate resources from Iraq would be....

GWB: That's right, Clarkster. Doing somethin' a-strange. Like liberating Afghanistan. They're screwed no matter what we do... and they aint got no oil. Even Iran didn't invade that place. They just sent their terrorists.

Besides, my Dad was almost killed in Iraq. But Sad-damns a-getting on in years- Iran could bust into Iraq at any time, ya see.

RC: Don't you care what'll happen in Israel as a result of all of this? I'm telling you that al Quada needs bodies and minds for their campaign... won't this increase their supply of angry sacrificial terrorists? And aren't you concerned that people here might think you're doing this simply to obtain oil for America?

GWB: Israel, Heh. Don't even go there! I'm sure I don't wanna! Heh heh.

Naw, naw, naw. Look, to be serious, my Good Man! The far right and far left wing have, throughout the whole of history, always depended on the sweat and anxieties of moderates to make everything all right, and that's what will, indeed, eventually occur in Israel.. Here, we call it the "balance of power"... "balance of forces".. whadeveh. Ahem. People here can't decide between the left or the right because so many of us have Divorce Trauma. It even leaks into the more stable families, by now. Like mine! We're all trying, do you see, to please both the mother and the father simultaneously... both in our families... and in our collective psyche. It's perplexing.

Things might be a-okay--- as long as the moderate leaders don't keep a-gettin' whacked! Heh heh. You know, Israel was useful, in its day. We don't really explain to schoolkids why they were useful same reason we don't exactly link the creation of Pakistan with the creation of Israel.. it was at the same time! Uh, duh!

You know, when them Enger-land peoples were asked ta ski-dadle- you know who really asked them? Well- it weren't precisely just Mr Mahatma! They didn't really all beat it, anyway. We sure as heck-fire didn't get lost. And the West didn't create those countries jus' cause we felt guilty about anythin', even though that's we say about Israel, all the time. It was in our own interest. Naturally. This ain't any kinda secret. It's all there fer anyone who resists all this dumbing-down kinda stuff that's been a-goin' on fer.. well, decades, in actual fact!

RC: Isn't encouraging too much ignorance among Americans.. dangerous?

GWB: Naw.. it's the same reason I let the hippy-types think I'm just money hungry. Mr. Oil Baron! Warrin' for the Oil! Hah. Confidentially - me, I got all the money I need. So do my friends. "The future, Mr Gettes".. heh heh. Ever seen that one?

RC: Never mind all that historical stuff, right now...

GWB: Sure. I know we'll ignore all your "historical stuff". I'll ignore everything you ask me to. And I'll also ignore everything you don't ask me to.

RC: ... You know, Sir, I've been in intelligence work all of my adult life-

GWB: Yeah.. me too! Longer! (smirks)

RC: What'll you do to convince the public, whom you don't trust with the truth about this, that we need to invade Iraq after all this time, but not, say, North Korea?

GWB: Dunno... We'll think of somethin'

Clarke: What's this "we" business, Sir?

(Cop-out Note: Please be reminded that the author's musings regarding political matters are satiric in intent, which is also to say that it might be more a report of how it looks rather than a statement of how it is known to actually be. Of course, in a television-led news environment, how it looks is sometimes all we think we've got.

Also, I need to mention that the dialogue of the last five or so postings is in no way meant to state any actual view that the author may have regarding pre-planning of 9/11 by people in the U S government.)
__________________________________________________________________________________________original contents copyright 2004 by the author. any likeness to persons, living or deceased, without satiric intent, is both unintentional and a tremendous coincidence.