When Will America Awaken from "The Bush Ultimatum"?

[Demeter]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/154



...The conversion of (Bourne Ultimatum Character) Landy from blindly loyal CIA official to patriotic whistleblower is, indeed, the route so many Americans have traveled since 9/11...And like "The Bourne Ultimatum," America has been held hostage to a fictional narrative since 9/11 that has virtually nothing to do with the reality at hand when it comes to America’s needs, including our national security. The continued acceptance of the Bush fictional narrative about Iraq is like being in a darkened movie theater, in which reality only seeps in when someone opens the rear door and a splash of light momentarily enters into the darkened room.

A majority of the members of Congress continues to pretend that America’s national security can only be protected by supporting the deeply and profoundly detached from reality fiction peddled daily by the Bush Administration. But that fiction is a destructive one, because it is so divorced from reality that it leaves us as a nation more vulnerable to terrorism with each passing day. It is a fiction created to hide other political and personal agendas...But one day, Congress – should no patriots like Pamela Landy emerge (and let’s not forget the bionic Jason Bourne who seeks to restore his own purity of motive) – is going to have to leave the movie theater of politics showing "The Bush Ultimatum" and deal with the wreckage that has been left in the wake of running a nation’s foreign and domestic policy based on powerful speciously constructed narratives that steam roll over the pavement of reality.

When the credits for "The Bourne Ultimatum" roll, we have been temporarily given the hope that the evil "Masters of the Universe" (read Cheney, Bush, Gonzales and Rumsfeld) have been exposed and brought down.

But then you realize, as your eyes hit the first news stand and you read about Congress giving the discredited perjurer and "torture boy" Alberto Gonzales control over spying on Americans without a warrant -- and that generals are predicting an indefinite stay in Iraq -- that reality is far more harsh than fiction...The Bush handlers – particularly Rove and Cheney – offer us a fiction of a noble, benevolent empire. "The Bourne Ultimatum" symbolically reveals the tarnished and betrayed integrity of our nation that has been compromised by the reality of what is being done in our name and disguised, with the help of the corporate media, by an endlessly unfolding "Scheherazade" White House narrative. It does it in an adrenaline-paced thriller that tells a symbolic story...In the real world we walk back into, the masters of war and diabolical schemes that cut the heart out of our Constitution are still casting a spell upon the nation.

Reality will, one day, hit America very hard, alas, very hard indeed.