CNN started hyping "Iraq: The Unfinished War" with its own logo back in December 2001 even before George W. took office. It has been a long time coming.
It took 911 to clear the way for the war Bush desired so
passionately. Now he is so close he can taste it. The blood has begun to flow, and it is exhilarating. Soon he will have Saddam Hussein's head.
We are talking now about a guy who as a kid put firecrackers in frogs
and threw them into the air to watch them explode. He cracked himself up in an interview with Talk magazine by mocking a woman on death row whose cries for mercy he scorned, screwing up his face and saying, "Please don't kill me!" in an impersonation of the deceased.
He presided over more executions as governor of Texas than any governor since capital punishment was legalized. His own people said he never spent more than 15 minutes deliberating over whether to sign the order to kill.
This included at least one case in which the public defender
slept during the trial, and many other cases in which the
court-appointed lawyers obviously just took the money and ran, leaving
their clients to the mercy of a vicious and corrupt system.
This is a man who enjoys killing. He is totally in his element when it
comes to killing. Everyone is different. This is the way he is.
It reminds me of something in Ed Sanders' book on the Charles Manson
murders The Family, in which Sanders described Manson as one who, even
more than the excessive drug use and sex of his little tribe, got off on murder. Some people like it.
Then there was Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In one documentary film, a police detective who had worked to track down Bundy seemed
uncharacteristically amazed when he said, "I never encountered anyone
who was so consumed with murder."
So here is George preparing to give his speech announcing that the
killing has begun in Iraq, the long-awaited moment. And there he is
pumping his fist and saying, "Feels good!" It makes perfect sense, too
much sense.
That's one for the history books.
http://www.davidcogswell.com/
March 20, 2003
George W. Is High on Killing
by David Cogswell
