War Pigs can fly, just ask Baghdad Johnny McCain |
By Vincent L. Guarisco
April 11, 2007
At last! These days, I kinda feel the need to put a little vicks under my
"pessimistic nose" in order to tolerate the eerie media stench (an old
morgue trick). You feel that way too? Well, don't fret, the power brokers
ensure us that once we get past the initial stench and foul taste, it's all
a downhill treat as their bullshit optimism enters our gullible gullet. But
does the crap really go down that easily when considering over three
thousand, two hundred flag draped corpses from Iraq have returned in the
dead of night at Dover Air force base? Hmmm, hold-off on that salt and
pepper, amigos. I think the general public has finally felt the full acid
reflex in this; we seem to have lost our appetite for all this war
business...about freaking time!
Regardless of having said that, certain war pig "squealing" is reaching new
decibels every day! And no one drives the sound bites soaring higher into
the prevailing winds than my own home-state senator and war pimp John McCain
. He recently made a pitiful attempt to sow "wings" on Bush's
"pig-of-a-war" in Iraq. Jezzzus, what a not-so-slick tarred-and-feathered
fool! Sorry Johnny, even with all your FOX fanfare, a perfumed pig dressed
in a cheap elephant suit is still simply a pig -- and cannot fly, not even
on the streets of Baghdad. Better war-pimping next time, Baghdad Johnny.
Why am I not surprised by big John's recent theatrics in Iraq? Well, as I
noted above, Baghdad Johnny is from my home state of Arizona, and we know
him very well by the many letters we have diligently written to him -- all
of which he gleefully ignores while rubber-stamping another piece of
Bush-sponsored neocon legislation into law. Point blank, we in Arizona have
been very disgusted with him for very long time, and are not at all
surprised by the pompous ass media spectacle he made of himself in Iraq.
McCain's foolish quest to gain cheap political leverage on the brutal
streets of Baghdad is truly monumental in it's own right! You got to see the
"real" johnny boy in full form! His 100-soldier "walk-about" through the
safe (sic) streets of Baghdad with black hawk helicopters buzzing overhead
while boasting a flak-jacket on his puffy cock-of-the-walk chest has proven
to be a true defining moment in his career. Uh huh, and no amount of future
political maneuvering or wishful presidential posturing will save his failed
prospects for 2008. Bottom line, we will not soon forget the day "Baghdad
Johnny" defied the war-pig law of physics, and fell
from the campaign sky like a rock..
However, since I seem to be on a rare metaphor roll, let me add -- as McCain
rightfully falls from grace, I am reminded of Ozzie Osborne's old "War Pig"
song. Ah yes, I can already hear the daunting harmonics playing like a
battle boar symphony reminding us of how crude old swine like John McCain
and the rest of the war pimps can be. All are true cowards without honor,
posing as leaders, needlessly sending our young men and women to their early
graves for their war profiteering masters.
And so it is, that the new lies of war blend with the same old recycled lies
of war, only this time around we get flack-jack Johnnies telling us that
shit's getting better over there, every day. Such an ugly taste it leaves in
our mouths, to have an old Vietnam war hero shamefully pimp himself out like
that! Shame on him!
Vincent L Guarisco is a freelance writer from Bullhead City, Arizona, a
contributing writer for many web sites, and a lifetime founding member of
the Alliance of Atomic Veterans. Replies welcomed at:
vincespainting1@hotmail.com
2007 Vincent L Guarisco