Mr Bush and the goat

Mr Bush and the Goat

By Antoun Haddad 20/5/2008

“It’s a goat”, says Mr Bush. “You’re mistaken Mr Bush!” Responds the rest of the world. “How could this damn thing be a goat when we all can see that it’s flying?” They add in anticipation of some convincing answer. “A goat cannot fly Mr Bush!” They continue after waiting to no avail for an explanation from Mr Bush, as he keeps insisting that flying thing is a goat and keeps trying to convince the whole world that a goat can fly indeed!

How can Mr Bush be so paranoid and so delusional? Isn’t he the president of the United States? Don’t they call him “Mr President”? Hasn’t he been elected by the people of the United States? How can the American people choose to the first job a person who is as delusional and paranoid as Mr Bush? Are delusion and paranoia pre-requisite characteristics of those candidates for the first and most important job in the USA? Or, do candidate become delusional and paranoid after they are elected to this job?

Resorting to the history of the United States and the history of its successive presidents to find some answers to our questions, we have failed to compare Mr Bush to any of those presidents except his father perhaps. We concluded that Mr Bush is a stand alone president of the USA. Only time will tell if the Americans, and the rest of the world for that matter, will be “endowed” (ravaged is a better verb) with a like of Mr Bush ever again.

When there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the whole world could see that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, sadistic Mr Bush insisted otherwise and as a result initiated an aggression which destroyed Iraq, claimed about one million Iraqi victims so far, killed about 5000 US soldiers and many thousands wounded and put the United States in unenviable situation.

Yet Mr Bush insists that he brought democracy to Iraq and the dying and devastated Iraqis can practice democracy now, the democracy of death to be precise.

Now Mr Bush is trying to convince us that Hezbollah in Lebanon is a terrorist organisation and that it is the enemy of the Lebanese people. But we, the Lebanese people, have a totally different notion of Hezbollah. We believe that Hezbollah is a source of our pride and dignity, our assurance of self-rule and self-independence and gives us the security that he never had before.

Hezbollah is a national icon for the majority of the Lebanese except those who endeavour to trail shamelessly behind foreign powers in search for their personal interests.

Mr Bush doesn’t want to believe that the Lebanese will safe and sound as long as he stays away from them. He claims that he is trying to bring democracy to Lebanon. Mr Bush doesn’t know that we are democratic enough! He is refusing to believe that the Lebanese people don’t want his democracy! We have seen his democracy in Iraq and we are very keen to keep it away from us.

The Lebanese problem is not goat Mr Bush and you can’t convince otherwise. We know what our problem is and are mature and capable enough to solve our problems. Of course, we can do that provided that you stay away from us.

You have might and power Mr Bush which we are even terrified to contemplate to have at any time in future. You are even the mightiest and most powerful individual on Earth. We, the Lebanese people, are no comparison to you Mr Bush in terms of might and power. We are weak and poor, but we have our pride, we have our self-esteem, we have our dignity, we adore our freedom and our independence and we have the will to defend and die for them.

Because we love our freedom and independence, we love Hezbollah beyond your imagination and we are ready to defend it with all what we have got.

We are weak and poor Mr Bush, but we are very smart, smart enough to distinguish between a goat and what is not a goat!

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