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• Friday, May 19, 2006 02:15 PM

  I'm not laughing...Bush's Smirk=You Got Me

  This is truly frightening. He doesn't KNOW when he's laughing. He actually said, "I'm not laughing," when everyone in the world saw him laughing. All along, whenever I have seen that laugh, that smirk, I have taken it as a sign of his arrogance, his dismissal of his questioners. Now, I see that it is just a tic, an unconscious expression of the little boy caught killing those frogs. He doesn't know he's laughing. Someone has to tell him that he has laughed whenever the number of dead in his war has come up or any other of his multitude of sins has been mentioned to his face.

  War IS unsettling. It makes people feel sour. Karl Rove said so, and now G.W. has said so, too. As if this war just happened, without any causes or anyone to blame for it. As if Iraq had attacked the USA. The way the kid in the high chair learns so early to say, "Uh-oh" and look at the ceiling after deliberately dumping his cereal on the floor. "Uh-oh!" Bad war, upsetting everybody. How could that have happened?

  Oh, well, let's just do another kid thing and hope it will go away. "Where's that dune buggy? That was fun!"

  Where's New Orleans? I used to LOVE getting drunk there.

  Where's my aircraft carrier? I had fun playing soldier wearing a codpiece and all.

  Where's my boat and my lake? I want to catch another perch or bass or whatever it was. That was fun!

  More prisoners to torture? That's always fun.

  Another execution? Oh, goody. Those are really fun!

  Let's go sign some bills with our fingers crossed behind our back. That's fun!

  Let's go cut some brush! Better yet, let's go kill some frogs. That was fun!

  GOD HELP US. THIS IS OUR PRESIDENT.

  —Marty Carpenter Read Marty Carpenter's other letters
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