Bill Maher, on his recent show, speculated that maybe Bush was right afterall [about the Iraq War and the Middle East] since there seems to be general movement and discussions for democratic movements throught the Middle East. Perhaps, he continued to think aloud, it took someone (i.e., Bush) with such incredible naivete and ignorance about the region to imagine impossible solutions that move away from the old mindsets.
Okay, for one, Shrub is only a figurehead. He was NOT the architect for the Iraq War. This has been on the drawing boards for decades and the main proponents were Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and of course, Richard Perle, the so called "Prince of Darkness" who was advisor to the Defense Dept. and the biggest warhawk. Again and again, I reiterate the illusion of participatory democracy. We elect spokesmodels for President under subjective criteria guided by propaganda. The Presidency is a collective leadership, a clever facsimile of an oligarchy. The concentration of power becomes more distributed and decentralized, the weaker the Head of State and the less informed the electorate is.
How does an Idiot become President? It is never accidental. Power is too important to be left to chance. Oligarchy Now!
