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Poppy declared it. Now Junior has advanced it even more- -The New World Order. First, Poppy built the great seaport city of Caesarea and ordered the slaughter of every boy in Judea under the age of two. Then his son kept things rolling by beheading John the Baptist- -yes, I know- -heads will roll- -and then consorted with Pontius Pilate to free Barabas and crucify Jesus. WAIT!! Wrong father and son team. That was Herod The Great and Herod Antipas. Forgive me. It’s this Easter/Passover season thing. I guess I’m confused. Too many chocolate rabbits. It was Poppy BUSH who declared The New World Order and Junior BUSH who kept things rolling by, at least figuratively, beheading the head of Iraq and rendering the rule of Saddam Hussein null and void. But just like the Herods the Bushes were not totally in charge. Herod and Herod had to answer to Rome, or at least to the Roman governor of their province. Bush and Bush also have to answer to higher governing bodies- -those at Bechtel and Halliburton. The great city of many millions will rise again, but this time it will have the “made in USA” stamp on everything, and you and I will pay many millions to have it done. Of course, those many millions will come right back to the US. Even if you and I don’t see any of it, the Bush cronies will. This week the Bechtel Group of San Francisco was awarded a contract for up to $680 million to rebuild and repair such things as power plants, electrical grids, water and sewage systems, airports and, of course, the seaport, although it will only be Umm Qasr, not Caesarea. They could, however, rename it for one of Bechtel’s directors, the former Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, George Shultz- -“Shultz-a-rea”. And they could open a fast food joint: “Caspar’s Wine’n’Burger”. Maybe not. Tell me this is not a coincidence: Members of the Third Infantry Division have recently found a stash of cash- -US dollars- -over 650 million of them- - Franklins- -in a hole in a false wall in one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces. The money was sealed in wrappers from the Bank of Lebanon. A potential donation to Cedars-Sinai? Not likely. So are you thinking what I’m thinking? If this is Saddam’s money- -and we’re not exactly sure if it is, or if it isn’t, or to whom it may rightfully belong. But say it is the Big Bruiser’s money, however he came by it. Why not use it to pay Bechtel instead of using our tax dollars? Bechtel will just have to go with the package discount and eat the $30 million difference. Maybe they’ll take coupons or AARP cards. Meanwhile, as we like to say in the news business when making an only semi-related transition, Vice-President Dick Cheney’s office has had “no comment” about a contract awarded recently to the Halliburton Company to supervise the rebuilding of the Iraqi oil fields. This was actually awarded before the war. The details of the deal are so-called “classified information” so we can’t find out anything about it for now. In case you’ve been away, say, on Mars, Halliburton is the company Cheney headed before becoming Vice-President. Now what are the chances of this kind of a coincidence? What luck!! I’m so surprised!! And happy for them, too. I was worried they might not get it. HA!! And speaking of Mars, Junior Bush must think most of us have been star-gazing and not paying any attention to these behind the scenes transactions- -bids accepted from only a handful of carefully selected companies- -and all of them American, even though the Brits and the Aussies were in on this also, and do know how to put things back together fairly well. (Check me on this, but there may actually be older buildings still standing in Britain than any here in the US- -and multi-story ones too. NOTE: See London, Tower of.) I’m not suggesting we offer to accept bids from the French or the rest of the resistance, but it would be more “American” to do this above board than to make it seem like a reward for Bush’s well-connected old-boy network. “George, we think you should go after this Saddam guy. We need the business.” “Certainly, gentlemen. Will there be anything else?” “No, just freshen our drinks.” What’s done is done. Our little pageant in Iraqi disarmament has had a major effect on all of the rest of the world, at least those people with access to TV, which is like, almost everyone. Okay- -I know- -the Unibomber didn’t have a TV. But most people do. It seems fitting that this should end at Passover and Easter, a time of peaceful rebirth. It could almost be like one of those elementary school plays. Now all I have to figure out is who plays Pontius Pilate. Rummy? |
