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Posted on 10/03/2003 11:16:08 AM PDT by BJungNan
Consortium News, a left tilting weblog with no love of George Bush, has just published confirmation of the left's view that George Bush and the "Empire" he represents are evil.
This confirmation may not be news to many on the right, but the editorial, Bush's Alderaan, written by Robert Perry, is shocking in that it so forthrightly details the left's beliefs about Bush and what the left believes Bush represents - The (evil) Empire.
It is a long stretch to suggest that Iraq is akin to Star Wars' peaceful planet Alderaan? Yet, that is exactly the comparison Consortium News would have us believe. For those of you not up on Star Wars detail, read this from a Star Wars site about the planet Alderaan (also cited below). To help you put this in perspective, in this twisted leftward world, Saddam is supposed to be Princess Leia Organa , Bush is supposed to be Grand Moff Tarkin, and Iraq is the peaceful planet Alederaan.
Star Wars Location Alderaan "If ever one needed an example of the irredeemable evil that was the Empire, turn to the shattered remains of Alderaan. An influential world, Alderaan was represented in the waning days of the Republic by such venerated politicians as Bail Antilles and Bail Organa.
A peaceful world, Alderaan was bereft of weaponry in an era of galactic strife. It was not without spirit, however. Alderaan was one of the earliest supporters of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, though its officials prudently kept all ties to the Rebellion covert.
During the time of the Empire, Alderaan's representative in the Senate was Princess Leia Organa. Using her political stature and inherent diplomatic immunity, Organa was able to skirt past Imperial blockades on missions of mercy that aided beleagured Rebel units.
Her compassion and the tyranny of the Empire would doom poor Alderaan. Leia was captured intercepting vital Imperial plans, and taken aboard the unspeakably powerful Imperial superweapon, the Death Star battle station. There, Grand Moff Tarkin demanded to know the location of the Rebel hidden fortress. When Leia refused to divulge that information, Tarkin targeted the Death Star's prime weapon on Alderaan. Leia attempted to spare her homeworld a horrible fate by giving Tarkin a false answer. It was no use. Tarkin unleashed the Death Star's power regardless. With a single blast, Alderaan was reduced to rubble, and its population, numbering in the millions, was killed in the blast."
The analogy is of course absurd. That is unless Consortium's Perry expects us to completely overlook the very grisly torture the Princess Saddam was up to.
By the way, Iraq is still standing, most of its population is greeting Bush with kisses and our soldiers with flowers.
I'll grant Consortium News that we have not and may not find the weapons of mass destruction - maybe there were none. But torture and ruthless repression does not make for a very peaceful planet. Iraq under Saddam was certainly no Alderaan. Whether it will be once the U.S. departs remains to be seen.
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How many poor Bothan suckers had to die to bring us this load?
Meet Russell Betts.
Meesa, errr, clumsy.
He certainly could not qualify for the Antichrist.
The void between his ears would never allow him to suffer a mortal head wound.
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