Something I Need To Get Off My Chest

I can't get Jay Leno and Doritos out of my head ever since George Bush said his infamous "Bring 'em on" quote. Every time a Black Hawk or Chinook crash, car bomb, ambush, grenade, or accident kills an American, a lot goes through my head.

First I think of a friend of a friend who is over there and hope all is well.

And then I think of George Bush's pyschotic "Bring 'em on" quote. And I mean the dictionary defintion of psychotic: "characterized by defective or lost contact with reality." As in "I don't appreciate the meaning of life and death." As in I'll send 152 people to death row, and while I'm at it, I'll mock the pleas for clemency of a woman on death row.

And while all this is going on, two images go through my head. The first is George Bush landing a plane on an aircraft carrier, and the second is Jay Leno's Dorito's commercials from the late 80s. Do you the ad campaign I'm talking about? The one where Jay, at the end of each spot, would say, "Crunch all you want. We'll make more." And to me, that's the essence of the "Bring 'em on" quote. Bush shows his true colors when his comments aren't scripted. It gives me the creeps just thinking about, that soldiers are just another commodity to him like corn chips or, I don't know, OIL.

If this Bush's attitude towards his own soldiers, what does that say about how he views everyone else in the world (outside of his inner circle)? Does he give a shit at all about Iraqi civilians, those who voted against him, those in congress who oppose him, those in Europe who protest passionately against him, or how about the entire continent of Africa, AIDS and all?

I know the "Bring 'em on" quote is old news, but I just wanted to get this out there in the public domain, as my brain has been marinating in this bitterness a bit too much lately.