Dear Diary,
My war on terror is beautiful cover: Endless War for Endless Rule. My War on Terror is my master plan.
In all honesty, the term began as a campaign slogan. It stuck. We had a lot of fun with them back then, and still do. But, the people really like this one.
Dad believed in 1,000 Points of Light. In advance of the Apocalypse, I believe in the Third Awakening
http://ristocrats.blogspot.com/.... No more lights for Saddam, I now follow only my higher father.
My endless war needs a worthy partner. I tried forcing those Axis of Evil people into my war. It didn't work. They wanted to negotiate, use diplomacy, and stall. They are sissies. Saddam even let the inspectors in. We were surprised. I had to stop them inspections before they revealed my little fib.
How perfect is it that my partner and kindred spirit surfaces in Afghanistan? We trained him to defeat the Evil Empire and now he's the central front to the Axis of Evil. He is obligated just like me to religious domination of all government institutions.
He too sees the Apocalypse. He is already waging war in advance of it. He is so neat. He even has an army of soldiers willing to kill themselves while they murder, torture and terrorize others. I need that kind of army too.
My opposition all think I'm stupid. My partner and I understand however, how to accomplish the plan.
I appear tough and resolute and nothing else matters, not even the facts or the law. All I have to say is terrorism and terrorists, and people ignore even the constitution and send their children off to die for me.
To date, my war is a perfect success. I get to fight endlessly, look tough and simultaneously neutralize domestic opposition, defeat Democrats, divide and control America, and manufacture more enemies to kill abroad. Wow, all that from a little campaign slogan paid for by taxpayer dollars.
I cannot believe how easy it is to subvert every national institution. Even The Supreme Court selected me as President and then claimed its decision was not a precedent.
Then, Congress gave me its most solemn obligation, the power to wage war. They will never have to declare war again. Now that I have my Authorization to Use Military Force, I'm using it, forever. My loyal opposition even voted for it. They thought they'd be in power and use it themselves. Ha, Ha, Ha!
They even let me bypass those messy courts and their business with indictments, and trials. Those Enemy Combatants cannot become regular defendants. They might be able to prove their innocence, expose my real intentions, or at minimum cause me a little embarrassment. As a result, I have my own Concentration Camp now where I am judge, jury, torturer and executioner.
They call me incompetent yet most of them cannot even see how easily I manipulate them. At one moment, they believe my war in Iraq protects them from attack while Americans die every day at the hands of people I label terrorists and said they were going to liberate. Apparently, daily terrorist attacks on Americans is different from terrorist attacks in America.
Those Iraqis are terrible terrorists. I'm lucky that no one seems to notice that all they really want to do is kill each other. Through our training though, they are getting better and better. While they train, I get to claim that I am fighting separate wars and divert attention away from them when it suits me.
When all that violence causes unease, I talk about the broader war on terror one moment; and how Iraq is the central front, the next. I must be the only one who notices there is actually only one war.
Nobody even asks how I could be simultaneously winning my war on terror and losing Iraq. Nobody asks why I simultaneously sent young Americans off to die to protect our freedoms while back home I have convinced people to give up the same freedoms I sent our soldiers to die for.
Heck, I even claim to be a wartime President even as my real goal is the softening up of domestic opposition for those Enemy Combatant arrests that are coming to town. In the meantime, while those terrorists are gaining enough strength, I can spy on my people's electronic communications, intimidate the Liberal Media and control all the data I need to keep winning elections and smear my opponents.
And those annoying little elections. I don't have to worry about them anymore, but my friends do. Soon they won't have to worry about winning elections either. Elections here will be as meaningless as the ones I staged in Iraq.
Truth be told I never worried about winning an election though. It was always in the bag. Convincing Americans to divide against their interests or getting judges to stop counting votes for me was effective but it is now outdated. Crude tactics like systematic voter suppression, intimidation, or disinformation campaigns are going to be quaint little remnants left only for our amusement.
When the Supreme Court chose me, it caused an election crisis. Now I have my own voting machines purchased from my benefactor by the taxpayers to make sure it never happens again. My machines are so good they are programmable virtually anywhere and anytime. After producing them I even got taxpayers to buy some of them back without a paper trail and agree that only my benefactor could check inside. Wow!
Even with all I've accomplished I'm still a little bit worried that one day someone will ask me a real question and then more people will ask and then it will grow into a movement where everyone demands to know the truth. That's why I told them never to think that somehow I use the same tactics as the terrorists. I meant that.
If people thought otherwise, it might occur to them that the only true predictions I made about Iraq is that "The violence will increase" and "It will be a long war." Nothing else has really occurred.
For instance, my war on terror cannot be won militarily. That's why I ignore all the Intelligence reports about how ultimately, human dignity, justice, unity, cooperation, and socio-economic advancement are the keys to victory. Boy do they have me wrong.
I'd be worried however if there were persistent questions about why I put our troops in a no-win situation or when I knew my military could not achieve its military objectives. It is so cool that Rummy eliminated all that old Pre 9/11 military planning stuff. They might find out I knew long ago.
It might even be a setback when I'm asked simply how my current policy achieves success. They might connect the dots and discover that no exit strategy means I never intended to leave or that my success is waging the war itself.
Heck, even utilizing the Quaint U. S. Constitution and Geneva Conventions to question why I torture might cause even me some problems. By the way, I really thought torture would get more of a rise out of people.
I pitched a fit for the cameras and threatened to stop torturing unless they changed the Geneva Conventions for me. I really did not want or need the change. I'm not going to stop torturing, and now that I can write my own rules I'm going to torture even more.
My tantrum was actually a brilliant piece of political theatre. People really believed that my friends McCain, Warner, and Graham, would stand on principle to oppose me. I thought with the nation's interest focused on signature issues like war, the rule of law, international treaty obligations, the constitution, and human dignity that Democrats would pile on.
Democrats must have forgotten that Democracy's source is the advancement and attainment of ideas like Liberty and Justice or how to use them to lead and govern. They must have forgotten that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights exist to protect the innocent. I haven't forgotten.
I call people terrorists, deny them Prisoner of War status, and secretly lock them up as Enemy Combatants. I claim it will make it easier to gain convictions and justice. It is surprising how easily Enemy Combatants are imprisoned and tortured forever without trial, proper defense, or sentencing.
Torture didn't even make the headlines. Nobody is even calling it my Torture Bill except that cute little Keith Olbermann on his cute little Cable Channel. Most of his colleagues are calling it my terrorist detention policy and my enhanced interrogation techniques. I wonder if Americans even know that I torture.
Decent people do not believe in torture. We hate decent people for their decency.
Karl taught me how easily people give up their decency. Karl taught me how to destroy them on their strengths.
Karl taught me not only to be tough but how to smile and give the illusion of common decency while making every group think their group is more decent than the other group. When they fight they lose their decency, then I play referee, and control the spoils.
Speaking of headlines, my opponents think that NIE Report is such a potent force against me. They don't understand how desperate they appear as they scour the daily newspapers to find bad stuff to say about me. I will just create another headline tomorrow.
They think that NIE data makes me look bad. At least, Iraqi Insurgent attacks don't appear as terrorism on my international terrorism reports. Double Jeopardy for them, Double Dipping for me.
Besides, even I know the NIE is stupid and wrong. For example, the NIE says that attacks in Iraq will decrease after people like Zarqawi are killed. That is so funny.
Zarqawi had to go. He began to utilize women and seriously violated his strict religious obligations. He was more a threat to my Saudi/Afghani partner than to me. My partner threatened to take all his marbles and go home. My partner let me know where he was and I took him out.
I have to admit I was a little afraid at first. After the NIE Report leaked, I thought I'd be asked how I spend billions of dollars on Intelligence and ignore most of it and pick and choose what I want to release.
I was also anticipating that people would say that I had Intelligence that could have stopped 9/11, capture Osama at Tora Bora, or told me there were no weapons of mass destruction, and stuff like that. I thought my pattern of using Intelligence for my own purposes might cause an upheaval and reveal deeply disturbing patterns. But, the questions never came.
However, there is one part of the NIE Report I like. It goes "This could prompt some leftist, nationalist, or separatist, groups to adopt terrorist methods to attack U. S. interests. The radicalization process is occurring more quickly, more widely, and more anonymously in the internet age, raising the likelihood of surprise attacks by unknown groups whose members and supporters may be difficult to pinpoint. We judge that all groups of all stripes will increasingly use the internet to communicate, propagandize, recruit, train, and obtain logistical and financial support." http://www.nytimes.com/...
Maybe people dismiss my favorite part of the NIE because they think that Islamo-Fascists like Al Qaida, The Taliban, and Iran, are leftists. That makes me chuckle. Actually, as the NIE says, the leftists are anyone who opposes me and anyone who opposes me is now my Enemy Combatant.
No, my real fear is that if people really knew me, they would hate me. Only I know the profound hatred immediately behind my beautiful smile.
I just hope nobody ever ties my extreme right wing belligerent nationalism, corporatism, racial, religious, and sexual ideas to that Hitler person. I have submerged his ideas within reasonable sounding American Conservatism. http://www.oldamericancentury.org/...
This is funny too! Recently, a US government funded study found that Conservatism is really a set of psychological neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity." They claim that one of my most potent ideas is that I preach an idealized past to condone inequality and maintain power. If the people find out, Democrats will not need good ideas to defeat me. I'm sure you understand now why I hate scientists too. http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Well Diary, I have probably said too much. It's about 9:00 and I'm getting tired.
Ah'll be back,
The Decider/Dictator/ Terminator in Chief