'Baby, you ain't seen nothing yet'... friends slay too

George W. Bush does not think like King George but behaves like man from the Bush.
"Don Rumsfeld's a patriot who served our country with honor and distinction," Bush eulogised his former secretary of defence, who was sacrificed, though modestly, in the White House gardens in the mist of two reging wars -- Iraq and Afghanstan.
"He is a trusted adviser and friend, and I'm deeply grateful for his service to our country."
Wait a minute!
This man, who also served as secretary of defencelessness under Gerald Ford, was a "trusted advisor?" Gimmi a break. This sounds more fondly like a "motherly praise her departed son" than a Commander in Chief eulogising a defence chief who is -- fairly or unfairly or both, rightly or wrongly or both -- blamed for sacrifising thousands of young marines in yet another "Vietman" in the making.
As Senator Goldwaters said in the 70s: The men who perished in Vietman did not die for their country, but were sacrifised as part of the inherited foolishness. Foolishness of believing that feeding teenage soldiers with junk while invading Fallujah can do any better than hardened Ugali-eaters.
We will never know whether Rummy was kicked out or just quit on principle. But we now know, confidently, that, that aged "Old Poultry" Nancy Pelosi must be celebrating and perhaps going for G-string.
As the next democrat speaker -- chief slayer in the House of Representatives -- it is feared that she will bay Bush's waterly blood, but it would be bloody hard to impeach the Bush, a partner in a Bushworld: a cult that is accused of killing, recklessly, in the land of the Oil Sheikhs.
If it means Rummy fell on the swords, just for a "higher course", then I'd rather be an African politicians, despite, as my very good friend Helen calls them (plural) "unsavoury characters." This is an alarm bell to fairly erudite Barrack Obama, -- a lifestylemagazine-loving brother with a tall pretty wife: "Your place in Africa, home to Mugabe, Bokassa, Mandela, Tutu, Mobutu and me."
Here -- where men boycot dinner because their wives have broken the chicken's back for the whole family to share -- we never slay friends and if we do, we bury your body and mark their graves.
Back to Rummy. Figure this: With planeloads of dismembered marine bodies arriving into the western hemisphere -- land of milk and honey and disneyland and abortion -- from the killing fields in and around the "Garden of Eden", it is hard to accept Bush's praise, or perhaps, eulogise the man who met Saddam twice, not to help Iraq kids starving because of US/UN-imposed sanctions, but to hawk weapons.
Saddam was an cruel kitten, who navigated the land between the two rivers, the birth place of mythical Abraham and one of the lightest crude oil. But his big-headedness or no-head-at-all was created by Rummy, when Washington stuffed his garrisons with obsolete M-16s to discipline the Ayatollahs in Iran.
Now, believe it or not, Rummy has paid the price for listening and believing another block-head, convicted bank fraud and conman called Ahmed Chalabi.
Years later, Rummy's weapons were used to slay Kuwaiti women prior to the Gulf war. An Iraq soldier, is reported to have said, shortly after the Kuwaiti invasion. "We fucked Kuwaiti women for 10 dollars." Quite an unsavoury thing to say, but oops, shit happens.
All this unnecessary -- cheese pasted -- drama inside the beltway was midwifed by mid-term elections, where the Republicans were given a "thumping," loosing control of the Congress to the Democrats and started recriminating, with some ultra-conservatives in the Christian south fearing that homosexuality is now sneaking in the US elementary school books.
"The elections have changed many things in Washington, but have not changed my fundamentral responsibility and that is protect American people from attacks," Bush said, going on to sputter and mutter how he will kick the but of Osama, the man who despised the Lady Liberty, like he despited a pork humburger.
So here's a new lesson from Bushville: Protecting American people involves sacrificing of trusted buddies, just as the "arrogant" Rummy -- perhaps the most confidence and colourful character in the Bush league -- learnt.
While Saddam goes to the gallows, dummy-buddy Rummy goes to bad history books -- facing a legacy of failure, sleeping and waking up hopelessly after a nightmare-laden night, spurred by dead marine's souls. This is what arrogant people get: painful dismissal.
America did not go to the Gulf to change Iraq, but they went to be changed by Iraq.
"Don is a tough act to follow," Bush said, hours after CNN reported that US troops were being slaughtered in the Iraq, "the land where none can pay to tour." Latter Rummy answered, positively eulogising the president, then concluding about his staff at the Pentagon :"they have my respect, they will remain in my prayers."
Rummy has gone ... forever Osama has remained.