What a joke to see George W. Bush strutting at Mount Vernon on George Washington’s birthday, attempting to link the Revolutionary War to Bush’s current military adventures. George Washington was a war hero, fighting to birth a new nation to be governed by and for the people. George W. Bush is a war criminal, fighting to make the world safe for predatory trans-national corporations.
In the speech somebody wrote for him, Bush tried to make a case that Washington would have supported Bush’s wars of aggression, by quoting the following: “My best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.” But which side does the historically-impaired current president think Washington would have been on?
The American revolution was fought to free the American colonists from the yoke of not only King George but the East India Company, the largest corporation of its day. Is there any doubt that George W. Bush, the privileged scion of inherited wealth, would have been a Tory, on the side of the King and corporation?
Washington and his contemporaries would have recognized what America is doing now as exactly analogous to what the British were doing in their day, maintaining an empire through force of arms and economic policies that favored the imperial nation. Our soldiers in Iraq are much more like the redcoats than the “ragged Continental army”. If George Washington were alive today, Bush would not be standing in his shadow but pinned under his boot.
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