George W. Bush is BuzzFlash.com's GOP Hypocrite of the Week

So Many Republican Hypocrites, So Little Time

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

There is a hypocrisy and sociopathology of the soul that is so grotesque, it is like metastasized cancer. Such is the affliction that infests George W. Bush.

It is difficult for Americans who feel a kinship to their fellow citizens, a reverence for the Constitution, and a respect for decency to comprehend the tortured inner being of the man currently occupying the White House.

In just a few short days, he again exploited our U.S. troops by claiming that the thousands upon thousands of them who were killed or seriously injured will have died or suffered in vain if more don't die to avenge them.

He has claimed that we must support the "mission" of the troops, when he has sent them on a "mission" that changes daily based on the whims of his pollsters and the deteriorating situation in the Middle East. It is the most betraying of hypocrisies, because our GIs are there at the order of their Commander-in-Chief. This is not their war; it is the war of the Neo-Cons, whose titular leader is George W. Bush.

He has compared the Iraq War to Vietnam, after years of denying that there was any relationship. His comparison is even more hypocritical because he and his Machiavellian Vice President both were too cowardly to serve in combat in Vietnam.

Furthermore, the end result of the U.S. departure from Vietnam only proves that it was the correct decision from a perspective of Republican multinational global capitalism. Vietnam has become a major source of cheap labor for U.S. companies, abandoning factories at home to construct them in a nation where we senselessly lost more than 50,000 soldiers fighting to uphold a now-disproven theory that there would be a domino effect of Communism in Southeast Asia. The only Southeast Asian nation that U.S. has strained relationships with currently is the military dictatorship of Burma.

But the Vietnam War analogy reveals much about the twisted psychology of George W. Bush. It is not about "mission"; it is about "winning" a war no matter what the costs, even if it is an entirely misguided enterprise.

When Bush now trots out the Vietnam analogy, after years of swatting it away like a pesky Texas mosquito, it is his appeal (written by his handlers) to the "Victory Culture." It is an attempt to emotionally evoke the myth of the "noble Christian" taming the less civilized beings of the world, the sense of divine "manifest destiny" that is part of the myth of our conquest of America.

Once Saddam was deposed and no WMDs were found, Bush had fulfilled his initial "mission." Since that time, his handlers have improvised new ones that change with the wind.

There long ago stopped being any mission in Iraq other than the "America as lone superpower cannot afford to lose to a ragtag bunch of swarthy Arabs" mission.

Even Bush's hand-chosen puppet, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asserted that he would "find friends elsewhere" if Bush and others continued to try to displace him as the "democratically" elected head of the Iraqi government, such as it is.

As was the case with Vietnam, the best thing we can do to repair Iraq is to leave it.

It will eventually heal itself. Time takes care of that, as it did with Vietnam.

But America is so devastated by years of Bush hypocrisy and the darkness of Cheney's soul that it will take us decades for our own nation to recover from their destructive leadership.

Until next week, remember our motto: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.

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This is the fourth time George W. Bush has won the HOTW Award in 2007. Bush also won it on May 4, 2007, February 2, 2007, and January 12, 2007. Bush has won the HOTW Award numerous times.