Living in an Irony-Free Zone

Chimpie on the stump in San Diego yesterday prattled on about Pearl Harbor, 9/11, the war in Iraq, and the need to keep the oil from falling in to terrorist hands. So WMD, democracy, mushroom clouds, Saddam trying to kill his daddy, and all the other dozen or so reasons used and discarded to justify his war were swept aside yet again. Then he comes up with the quote of the week:

At the naval base, Bush declared, ''We will not rest until victory is America's and our freedom is secure" from Al Qaeda and its forces in Iraq led by Abu Musab alZarqawi.

"We will not rest," Shrub-W says, and he says this while he is still on vacation after five weeks. I know he's not responsible for the words scripted by his ventriliquists, but don't any of them recognize the stupidity of such a declaration? Oy!

And then there's this:

''If Zarqawi and [Osama] bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks," Bush said. ''They'd seize oil fields to fund their ambitions. They could recruit more terrorists by claiming a historic victory over the United States and our coalition."

So, had we not invaded, would there be a new training ground for future terrorist attacks in Iraq? If we had not invaded, what were the chances that bin Laden would have gained control of Iraqi oil? I'll give Chimpie one thing though: he's finally admitted that it is all about oil and only oil. We can't have them--al Qaeda or the Iraqis, god forbid--having oil to fund their ambitions because we so desperately need the oil to fund our ambitions. And what might those be?

Yesterday as I watched some coverage of the devastation of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina, and also heard reports of the effects of this event on gasoline prices, what sort of commercials did I see in between all the gloom and doom? Why they were for GMC trucks--Yukons, Suburbans, duallie and club cab pickups.

That's what I mean by life in an irony-free zone. Political leadership and their media butt-buddies somehow get it rubbed out of their psyches as they kneepad their way into the elite levels of power. Perhaps having to give so many blowjobs for access just erases irony. Wonder if I could get some funding for a study?