‘Death Of a President’ – Find the Hidden Inference

September 1, 2006 Bush-Bashing, GW Bush, Just Plain Wrong, Tragedy, War on Terror Comments

Everybody read the story yesterday about the British “docudrama” being premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, “Death of a President.” However, it wasn’t until today in a second article about it that I’m starting to see pieces of the puzzle. It’s more than villifying President Bush and mocking the War on Terror – it’s insidiously trying to make Bush and his entire administration the villains of all world events; past, present and future. It took me twice reading the passage to figure it out, but sure enough, there it was. And don’t tell me this piece of the puzzle was chosen arbitrarily. The chances of that happening in a movie specifically about the assassination of George W. Bush are about as likely as France ever growing balls.

You may think I’m making too much out of this, but I will bet you that the more information that comes out about this piece of garbage, the more we’re going to see his “murder” being linked to events for which the world would LIKE to blame on him. In this observation, it’s obvious to me.

So, what do we have today? (h/t Drudge) We have Mark Almond, who is a “Reader in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford” giving his take on what would really happen if President Bush was shot (from a “historian’s” point of view).

From the article, “What If Bush Was Really Assassinated?“:

BEFORE that fateful day â€” November 9, 2006 â€” historians liked to say the world could never again lurch into global crisis because of one man’s death, as it had in 1914 when Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand was murdered in Sarajevo, sparking World War I.

The assassination of John Kennedy at the height of the Cold War hadn’t led to Armageddon in 1963, so why should things spiral out of control now if a president was murdered? That confident view was shattered as global communications networks froze from overload while transmitting round the world the picture of the 43rd President of the United States slumping forward after being fatally shot in the stomach.

The murder of George W. Bush set off a global crisis with which we still live today, ten years after he was killed.

Oh, so we won’t have a global crisis until and unless George W. Bush is murdered? I thought all you idiots thought Bush was a global crisis.

The article goes on to envision more:

Few people in America needed to know more than that the suspected killer of their President was Syrian-born. As the spotlight of blame focused on Syria, regarded by Americans as Iran’s poodle, the Iranian Foreign Ministry didn’t help its cause by issuing a perfunctory statement expressing regret that the President had ‘died in a violent manner’ and hoping that the American people would soon choose a new one who would be more peace-loving.

It outraged Americans and George W’s mother Barbara was overheard at the state funeral telling Cherie Blair: ‘It was like what you say to the maid when her dog gets run over. Get a new one, dear, you’ll get over it.’

The American public wasn’t interested in the formal regrets from Damascus and Tehran. Television coverage showed scenes of jubilation on the streets of Syrian and Iranian cities.

The new President, speaking from a ’secure location’ soon nicknamed Bunker One, announced that ‘those who celebrate death will learn to taste it soon enough’. Dick Cheney appeared unfazed by the day’s gruesome events.

While America closed ranks and mourned, across the Islamic world Bush’s death was greeted with outpourings of joy. American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan got into firefights with local militias shooting in the air. Saddam’s trial was suspended as the defendants hugged each other in the dock.

But what hurt Americans most was the Europeans’ lack of grief. Officially, Europe, from Brussels to Berlin and Paris, expressed sorrow and outrage, and President Chirac led the EU mourners in Washington.

But there was nothing like the sadness which greeted Kennedy’s murder four decades earlier.

And toward the end of the piece, Almond visualizes this:

‘I thrive on crisis,’ Cheney explained, ‘it was peace that got me tense.’ Occasionally he was short of breath, but Cheney even turned this to his advantage. Images of President Cheney in a wheelchair at Thanksgiving 2010 were carefully choreographed to recall Franklin Roosevelt in charge of the war effort 70 years earlier.

I feel like I need a shower after reading the whole article, which is long, by the way, but I won’t subject you to more of it here. You’ll have to click the link above to read the rest for yourself. I wonder why this article is so long? It’s almost as if the writer is euphoric in envisioning his fantasy of what Bush is responsible for that is happening in this world. Historian? No. Schadenfreude? Most definitely.

Ooops! I almost forgot. What’s the hidden inference? Check out the date of President Bush’s “assassination” above; November 9, 2006. Or in Europe, “9/11” of ‘06. Remember, after all, everything is always Bush’s fault.