Hey, William Kristol - 'Hit the Road, Warmonger!'

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Hey, William Kristol -
'Hit the Road, Warmonger!'
By William Hughes
12-12 03

Just who is William Kristol? He's a Neocon, Chicken Hawk, TV Talking Head,
Israeli Firster and unrepentant warmonger. I saw him speak at a pro-Iraq War
rally, held on the nation's Mall, in Washington, DC, on April 12, 2003, just
weeks after the Bush-Cheney Gang unleashed the dogs of war in Iraq.

I was standing in front of a woman at that event and overheard her say of
Kristol, "Oh, look how small he is!" The rally was headlined by the convicted
felon, G. Gordon Liddy. It was kind of a surreal gig, since the comedian Ben
Stein also surfaced on a huge movie screen. Stein wasn't funny at all that day. He
was out in LA, urging the flag-waving DC-based crowd, as did Kristol, to
support the Iraq War. Kristol, however, didn't want the U.S. invasion to stop at
Iraq. He insisted in his inflammatory remarks that there were other Muslim
countries that George W. Bush should also target for mayhem.

On another scary level- -and I know this sounds impossible- -it seems that
Kristol's mug is embedded in my TV set! He is ubiquitous! When he is on TV or
cable, I quickly reach for my remote, but mostly to no avail. It's like he has
this uncanny ability to appear at once on all of the news/talk programs,
particularly on Rupert Murdock's "Foxy News" network. However, this isn't all bad.
If Kristol is hogging up the tube, it does mean that the Mother of all the
Neocons, Richard Perle, is being denied air time.

Maybe, because of Kristol's harsh rhetoric, you might suspect that he is
going to be bigger in person, like say a Rush Limbaugh. Instead, Kristol fits more
into the bantamweight mold of actor Mickey Rooney. (Oh, by the way, Limbaugh
was supposed to also speak at the rally. Sadly, he was a no show. He probably
couldn't get the "medicine" he needed to get himself "up" to travel to DC from
that luxurious, $24 million, oceanside Florida mansion of his. Too bad, his
"Ditto Heads" were visibly disappointed.)

Nevertheless, the truly amazing thing about Kristol from my perspective is
this: He never seems to demonstrate any real feelings or visible compassion for
his subject matter. None! I have never seen him show any genuine human
emotion. I suspect that if there were a machine that could accurately record the true
feelings of a speaker, Kristol's political rants would score zero, or even,
possibly, in the minus-zero category.

America's soldiers, who are serving and dying in Iraq appear to mean little
or nothing to Kristol. They are just a "commodity" to be used by him, like our
Republic is, to push forward his more wars in the Middle East agenda. It seems
he doesn't see the Iraqi people as human beings either, and forget about the
Palestinians. The late, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir hatefully barked
that the Palestinians "never existed." Kristol acts the same way towards them.
The next time he appears on TV, watch him very closely. He reminds me of "HAL,"
the computer from the space film "2001," with no soul, heart or feelings.

Then, there is this issue of a lack of media accountability. Kristol has been
one of the most rabid cheerleaders for the U.S.-led war against Iraq. He
wrongly claimed, like so many of his Neocon cronies, that Iraq had WMD, ties to al
Qaeda, and that "exporting democracy" to it would be a walk in the park. Yet,
he has never been called to account for his asinine opinions, that have put
so many brave Americans and our fading national treasury at risk. It's like all
his idiocies go down a convenient Memory Hole. Kristol can say anything he
wants. If he wrong, it's forgotten! Sooner or later, he has to be right about
something. It's the law of averages. Then, when he is, I suppose he will be
acclaimed as a prophet, and awarded a dubious journalism prize, (probably named
after that Arab-bashing hack, A.M. Rosenthal). It is all just so painful and
insidious.

The other day, Kristol had another predictable spiel in Murdock's rag, the
"NY Post," (12/10/03). It was entitled, "How Dean Could Win." Of course, Kristol
doesn't want Howard Dean, a Democrat, to win. He favors the reelection of
Bush. His point was that unless the president is really "committed to victory" in
Iraq, he could lose the next election to Dean.

Kristol was all in a tizzy about what he labeled, a secretary of state (read
Colin Powell) that is looking for "diplomatic compromise," and a secretary of
defense (try Donald Rumsfeld), that is fixated "to an odd kind of
muscle-flexing disengagement." It also bothered the armchair warrior, that Bush's chief of
staff, Andrew H. Card, had made a recent statement about the Iraq War that
indicated he, too, wasn't quite bloodthirsty enough about pursuing the immoral
conflict. Poor, frustrated zealot, Kristol!

In one of the ancient Greek colonies, if a lawmaker proposed a new law, a
noose was tied around his neck. If the bill didn't carry, the lawmaker was hanged
(Will Durant's "The LIfe of Greece.") Regretfully, we don't have a legal
device such as that, which would apply to agitators, like Kristol. He schemed to
get the U.S. into the Iraq War that wasn't ever in our national interest. Iraq
has already cost the taxpayers $89.7 billion (costofwar.com) and the lives of
453 of our finest troops (lunaville.org).

The Neocon Kristol seeks only endless wars for the U.S. It is long past the
time for the people to tell him: Hit the road, warmonger!


William Hughes is the author of "Saying 'No' to the War Party" (Iuniverse,
Inc.). He can be reached at: liamhughes@mindspring.com.