The Bush&Co. Leadership of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: the Apocalypse
By Mario deSantis, October 11, 2006

“You know an administration by the linguistic company it keeps”--Tom Engelhardt[1]

I contend that there is no Free Market[2] and I contend that Bush's Free Market is not synonymous of Democracy since Bush&Co. wage a never ending war to enforce Democracy on other countries[3]. Also, I contend that every market is regulated and subject to the Rule of Law, but with Bush&Co. that is not the case, in fact Bush&Co. break constitutional laws[4] and international laws[5] and become a tyranny at home and abroad. With Bush&Co. we have the understanding that Might is Right[6].

When our leaders don't respect the Rule of Law, they become tyrannical, they deceive people and they engage in the so-called 'self fulfilling prophecies[7].' As a consequence, we have Bush who in the 2002 State of the Union Address labels Iraq, Iran and North Korea as 'axis of evil' and who subsequently and illegitimately wages a war against Iraq, threatens to do the same against Iran[8][8b] and possibly even against North Korea[9]. I am very concerned about the madness of Bush&Co. because his 'self-fulfilling prophecies' of waging ongoing wars against evil are matched by his religious belief in the approaching of the Apocalypse.

I am very disappointed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has embraced the tyrannical Bush&Co.'s foreign policies. Canada is supposed to help the peaceful reconstruction of Afghanistan and instead Canada has become an accomplice of economic corruption[10] and of military devastation[11].

As at today, 40 Canadian soldiers have been killed in combat in Afghanistan. In a recent speech, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has stated “ladies and gentlemen, that is the price of leadership in the world... It is also the price of moving the world forward[12]." I have a sarcastic laugh as I am thinking about Harper's abuse of the word leadership[13]. There are many definitions of leadership[14], but Harper's definition is the leadership which takes us to the grave.

References

[1] Engelhard, Tom “George Bush's War of the Words”; Tom Dispatch, October 9, 2006 http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=128588

[2] deSantis, Mario “President George Bush's Free Market: A Fake Smoke Screen Concocted by Corporate America and the Pentagon”; Ensign, May 5, 2002 http://www.desantis.hypermart.net/EnsignStories_601-700/Ensign_story619/story619.htm

[3] Fisk, Robert “The Age of Terror - a landmark report”; Independent, October 8, 2006 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1814843.ece

[4] Weiner, Bernard “The 'F' Word and How To Escape From Its Clutches”; The Crisis Papers, October 3, 2006 http://www.crisispapers.org/essays6w/escape.htm

[5] Consumers for Peace.org “War Crimes Report Shows US Violations of International Law”; October 10, 2006 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15261.htmhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15261.htm

[6] Burnett, Bob “Savage America”; Huffington Post, October 10, 2006 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-burnett/savage-america_b_31361.html

[7] Wikipedia “Self-fulfilling prophecy” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_fulfilling_prophecy

[8] Hedges, Chris “Does Bush Think War with Iran Is Preordained?”; Alternet, October 10, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/42774/

[8b] Carmichael, Michael “World War W”; GlobalResearch.ca, October 10, 2006 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CAR20061010&articleId=3443

[9] Parry, Robert “Bush's Tough-Talkin' Korean Bungl”; Consortium News, 10 October 2006 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006C.shtml

[10] Afghanistan, Inc.: A CorpWatch Investigative Report, October 6th, 2006 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13518

[11] CBC News “40th Canadian soldier died in Afghanistan, NATO confirms”; October 7, 2006 http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/10/07/afghan-killed.html

[12] CBC News “Soldiers' deaths in Afghanistan the price of leadership: Harper”; October 6, 2006 CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/06/harper-leadership.html

[13] Leadership, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership

[14] Another personal story. I was just reading the article “Designer as Leader, Leader as Designer” at the site http://voisen.org/archives/2006/05/05/designer-as-leader-leader-as-designer/ when I came upon the definition of leadership by Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching, the bad leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people praise. The great leader is he who the people say, “We did it ourselves.” Then I recalled an article I wrote in 1999 where I appreciated unconsciously both Lao-tzu's understanding of leadership and Peter Senge's Mental Models. You may read this article at http://www.desantis.hypermart.net/EnsignStories_001-100/Ensign_story029/story029.htm