Presidenta Non Grata

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

June 5, 2012

George W. Bush, the unelected, unwelcome, unwitting ex-"president" returned to the scene of his eight-year-long crime spree last week.  He dared show his face, yes I believe that was his face, in The People's House because in America we don't hold war criminals accountable for their dirty deeds. Actually, America is to modern-day war criminals what Argentina was to Nazi war criminals.  We are home to a number of international war criminals who were, shall we say no longer welcome in their home lands, not to mention a sizeable number of the homegrown variety who are considered war criminals by other countries.  The likes of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, to name a few, enjoy continued freedom here in the Home of The Brave and the Land of The Free War Criminals though they would be unwise to travel abroad, at the risk of being arrested for their crimes.  Remember, if the United States does it then it is not illegal...as long as it is the United States doing it.  If anyone else tries to get in on the fun they will be held accountable...by the United States.

Anyway, good old George still has his peculiar sense of humor.  And by peculiar I don’t mean unique unto himself, I mean peculiar as in strange, annoying and amusing for reasons he did not necessarily intend.  He was invited to the White House by his successor and apparent war criminal wanna-be Barack Obama, who is droning people to death all across the globe, checking off names on (or near) his special Kill List.  Yes he got bin Laden and five or six of al Queda’s seemingly endless supply of Number Twos, but any good Republican’t will tell you Bush deserves all the credit for that.  So now Obama has his own super (now not so) secret Kill List.  He decides who to kill, and anyone near enough to a target apparently deserves to die along with the lucky duck du jour.  Who needs due process when you’ve got a Kill List?  Send in the drones.  There has to be drones.  Don’t bother, he already did…but I digress.

Bush, Jr. was invited because only a very select group of war criminals gets to have their portrait in the White House.  He arrived, heavily medicated wife in tow, as their portraits were unveiled, though not un-viled.  He joked about all the happy people attending his “hanging” and a good time was had by all since not even a whiff of extradition wafted across the room.  Maybe some other time…I’m not holding my breath even though I would still like to see Nixon impeached.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Thanks for listening. Responsible comment (not George W) invited.