The Billiken's Bluff

Like The Roots and William Butler Yeats said, "Things Fall Apart." All is not well at the Bush Ranch and the kids are most certianly not ok. It wasn't all that long ago that Bush and the Fantastic Four (Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, and Cheney) stood united against evil-doers the world over. It looks like they may be breaking up.



Rice had to testify before the 9/11 commission, about what teh Bush administration did to prevent 9/11. Bush is rebuking Rumsfeld for the Abu Ghraib prison debacle. Powell is thinking about not signing up for another 4 years. Cheney is still nowhere to be found. Things are looking Grimm for the Band of Brothers.

What I want to know is how and why these Abu Ghraib pictures got out. The US Military supervisors running these prisons in Iraq really dropped the ball on this one. How are you going to let soldiers bring their digital cameras into the prisons?



I realize that the US army isn't running an after school program over in Iraq. I realize they aren't serving milk and cookies and playing dodgeball with the prisoners. But some of these photos coming out are just plain bizarre. Some real S&M, dregs of the internet type stuff. And even if you do have this type of insanity going on at Abu Ghraib, under no circumstances should you let the pictures get out. Hell, they shouldn't have even allowed cameras in there in the first place.

They have tougher restrictions on cameras at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In high school I tried to take a picture of some Greek vases for a project and was swarmed by security guards telling em to shut my camera off.

But there is some hope for the Bush Administration. Outkast's Big Boi and Andre 3000 have been rumored to be breaking up for years, and yet they were able to come out with the classic, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, which just went Diamond (10 million records sold). If two Atliens can put aside their differences to make a classic album, then I'm sure Bush and the Fantastic Four have one more freedom operation left in them. Operation North Korea Freedom? It doesn't exactly roll off your tongue though, does it?