You And I Do Not Matter

Here's the thing that most people simply cannot grasp... George W. Bush and all his top advisors simply do not give a shit about people like you and me.

Remember that scene from Fahrenheit 911 where Bush is addressing a dinner party of wealthy investors and joking about how he likes to call them his power base? That's his social millieu, those are his contemporaries, his role models, his friends and even sometimes his enemies (to a limited extent, given their common bonds).

People like you and me simply do not matter. The taxpayers, who do the hard work to provide the funds for the shareholders, do not matter. The citizens, who provide the soldiers for the wars to control the oil fields, do not matter. Bush wants your vote, your money and maybe - if you are foolish enough to join the Armed Forces - your life. But that's it. That's the limit of his interest in shmucks like us.

The one Bush quote I always remember, which makes sense of everything else, is this one:

You can't fool all of the people all of the time, but you can fool some of the people all of the time - and they're the one's you've gotta concentrate on!

Ha ha ha. But that's the secret of Bush's success right there: fooling the GOP-voting masses, again and again, to ensure he retains power on behalf of his Big Money friends. That's the Bush agenda, right there.

So what about the War In Iraq? What was it all about, really? It sure wasn't about WMDs or Al Quaeda, and if Bush doesn't give a damn about you and me, you can be 100% sure he doesn't give a flying f#ck about those poor, suffering Iraqis.

So what was it about? Jack Dalton at The Smirking Chimp joins the dots:

China's banks and oil company has made an $18.5 billion bid for UNOCAL. CitiGroup owns controlling interest in one of the banks involved in this 'deal' and Carlyle Group owns controlling interest in CitiGroup and the members of the PNAC are part and parcel a part of both CitiGroup and the Carlyle Group. And these are the very same people that have led this nation, under the banner of G.W. Bush, into a 'war of aggression' and a 'war against the peace.'

In other words, the people who brought you the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq are the very people now standing to profit from the oil pipeline deals through those countries - surprise?

This is the Big Business news. It's nothing to do with us. This is the boring stuff in the Financial Times and The Economist magazine. When the Financial news comes on TV, we flick channels. The Dow Jones is up, Ten Year Bonds are down - who cares? Not us. Maybe if we had a million dollars... But that'll never happen!

Work. Consume. Die.

No wonder Bush keeps telling us that all the lives lost, all the money and all the enmity and all the horror has been, and continues to be, "worth it".