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December 16, Email to George W. Bush

Yo prez (and veep), I’m a bit worried that my messages haven’t been getting through to you, so I thought I’d pass along my letter of congratulations (for getting Saddam) and a few documents of condemnation at the same time.  Say hi to Cynthia Tucker and Thom Shanker for me – they’re supposed to be real tigers (I’m waiting to see), and they and the rest of America have been reading my stuff for six months!  And please say hi to your buddy Tony and your hero Ariel.

Attached (as Merry Christmas, prez!”) are my Philippic (ask Miss Rice) against you, my published op-eds against you (before you beat up the Houston Chronicle) and my email to CENTCOM Public Affairs (just sent) about the cover-up of the Battle of Baghdad.  I’ll throw in the July 15 letter to Thom Shanker of the New York Times (with his reply).  As for the letter of congratulations, well, I’ve saved it for last, because I want to leave you smiling.

But first a few questions that have been nagging me...

Did you go off the deep end a little back in July, right about the time of Dr. Kelly’s death?  (Cynthia Tucker and Mike Luckovich said you did…)

When you went off the deep end in July, were you setting Valerie Plame up for assassination to scare off war critics, or did you mean it when you said in front of the 3rd ID at Ft. Stewart (in September) that you weren’t going to assassinate citizens for using free speech?  [Editor’s emphasis, in all cases]  I’m confused…

Do you mind it when I widely and frequently lampoon you as a “dynastic dwarf, George XLIII, Boy George, puer aeternus (ask Miss Rice) or shorty?  (If so, please reply as to which term offends the most.)  [lmao --Ed]  I know that your favorite George (the Third) didn’t put up with that kind of crap, but my favorite George (Washington) sure did – it was what he fought for.  I suppose you folks who inherit leadership positions are a bit more touchy, though.

Have you ever heard utterances like “avoid foreign entanglements” or “beware of the military-industrial complex,”and (if so) do you question the loyalty of the men who made them?

Do you think that it is your destiny to be the Millennial (ask Miss Rice) leader who initiates Armageddon for the glory of God via an Israel-centered world war?  (Just asking for my Brother Baptists – and do you hear voices inside your head?)

Final question:  Does it hurt your feelings that I’m so critical of you?

I wish it didn’t have to be that way, prez.  In the spirit of the Holidays, let me explain.  You see, I’ve gotten used to leading young adults as an Army officer, and to teaching teenagers as an educator – and I’m afraid I may be holding you to too high a standard.  Lord knows, I try to be indulgent with you, and I didn’t mind it a bit when you played golf on 911 weekend, because I felt fairly safe when you were doing nothing.  Now things have changed a lot though, because you’re doing something – the wrong thing.  You’re leading us straight into quicksand at home and abroad.

Lately I’ve been feeling really sorry (for the first time) that I blew you guys off when y’all wanted me to write speeches for you back in the Texas days (at the meeting in the Houston Hyatt).  I thought you were typical of your genre, and believe I could even have taught you the rudiments of English pronunciation, but Karen Hughes and I never would have gotten along.  I keep thinking it’s all too bad I didn’t take the job, because you sure could have used someone around who understood geopolitics.

Anyway, here’s the congratulatory letter I promised you.

Captain May

 

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