The news that Bush is going to lay a wreath at Mahatma Gandhi’s Memorial site in New Delhi is simply too much for one to bear.
But, I happen to remember he has had practice at this craft during the past three years.
Upon consquering Baghdad with his shock and awe tactics and being installed as the American Viceroy, Paul Bremer said ” I now urge all foreign fighters to leave Iraq!”. Can you top that?
Turns out you can.
Reichsfuehrer Rumsfeld stated two weeks ago that Iran is meddling in Iraq’s affairs and that must stop!.
Can anyone improve on these?
The world has seen many such leaders, eager to unleash as much violence as necessary to get what they want, and glad to praise nonviolence whenever convenient. But no photo-op can change the current reality that the world’s most powerful government is also, by far, the most violent and the most dangerous.
Mahatma Bush by Norman Solomon.