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May 22, 2007

"Corrupt, Inept, Mendacious and Venal"

David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru, writes, "the Bush dictatorship is the domicile for many monsters cloaked in human attire" in a piece on Pravda entitled, Ignoring evil in America." And, he says, though the "Bush dictatorship" is "corrupt, inept, mendacious and venal," Americans are, for some reason, suffering from "a great reluctance to use the term 'evil' when describing the cabal of thugs, hypocrites and war criminals who stole the White House in 2000 and 2004." Hoffman apparently feels quite passionate about his subject matter. If you can see past the wild, inflammatory rhetoric, however, he makes a good point.

“Why are Americans so willing to acknowledge the presence of evil when it comes to foreign governments, but so unwilling to acknowledge the presence of evil within their own government?”

Hoffman offers four reasons:

1. "[T]he 'arrogance syndrome.' Americans want to believe they are somehow more 'civilized,' and therefore less gullible, than other nations of the world."

2. "[T]oo many powerful people profit from it."

3. "[T]he uncanny ability of human beings to rationalize anything.

4. "[T]he terms 'good and evil' often take one into the realm of religion. When science and logic fails, faith often prevails."

In Bryan Singer’s remarkable film The Usual Suspects, a character named Verbal Kint remarks, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Sadly, this trick will continue to be effective as long as Americans refuse to acknowledge that their nation is being controlled by people who are “purely and simply evil.”

It looks to me as if Hoffman is saying Bush is the Devil (though not literally, of course). He wouldn't be the first to find a diabolical connection. For example, did you know that Bush is the AntiChrist (also known as "the Devil's Spawn")? In fact, irrefutable proof exists that he worships Satan. And that scary thing is, he is not the only one. Thank goodness we have a few very sincere people out there with no life who are hard at work compiling meaningless data that can make us chuckle as we consider the very discomfiting fact that the Bush Administration is being increasingly described around the world as "corrupt, inept, mendacious and venal" - and even "evil."

Posted by Becky at May 22, 2007 02:58 PM