So Bush finally apologizes-- probably kicking and screaming, with threats from his best and brightest (what a joke-- that would be Rove, Rice and Norquist) that it was apologize or be fired by the American Public... as well as the rest of the planet who have already made up their minds. Yes, there may be a collection of fifty or sixty million blue collar NASCAR dads, fascist Christians, neo-nazis, racists, greedy pig rich people who unpatriotically refuse to pay their fair share in taxes, and the corporate traitors to humanity and the planet... no, also to life itself, who prefer to support money over the environment, biodiversity and a world that is human-philic-- ie., the supporters of Bush. But the rest of the USA and certainly, the rest of the planet, outside of the corporatists and fascists in other nations, consider George Bush, his verminous minions and cretinous, despicable supporters pariahs.

The dictionary defines a pariah as an untouchable. To me, an untouchable by caste is a person who is unjustly treated as a person to be totally avoided and to be accorded contempt. The untouchables in India are born into their caste and it is not their fault.

George Bush has grown into untouchable Pariah-hood. He has taken on the mantle of a religious fraud, the rapist of a nation, the despoiler of nations, the waster of billions, nay hundreds of billions of dollars of resources and assets, the killer of tens of thousands. The destroyer of thousands of homes.

It is very likely, much because the population of the planet has grown so much since the 1940s, when there were just over 2 billion people on the planet, to now, when there are over 6.3 billion, that George Bush is the most hated, most reviled man in the history of the planet.

His fellow Christianists (if we call Muslims who are fundamentalist and unable to function cooperatively in the world, treating other faiths with respect Islamists, then lets call Christians who can't respect other faiths Christianists,) craving early death through the end-times when the anti-christ arrives, ushering in the return of the messiah, believe he is moving them towards their life-rejecting path. But it is just as arguable, perhaps even likely, if one chooses to dance with the "rapture" story, that the ultimate evil anti-christ would masquerade as the great leader who would take the faithful to their dreamed upon heavenly glory. The ultimate antichrist would seem to be the good guy.

So.... right now, about 50 million Americans think Bush is the good guy. Maybe another 100 million Brits, Germans, Poles, Australians, Italians, Kurds, Iranians, Saudi princes and Japanese, hey, maybe even 500 million more have enough financial or political interests to also support Bush. I don't think most of those 500 see him as a good guy. They see him as a venal scoundrel who will sell out his country in ways that support their interests.

That leaves about 5.8 billion people on this planet. The world Muslim population is close to 1.5 billion. Assume 97% of them hate Bush. The sane citizens of the rest of the planet have to see Bush and his supporters as venal, dangerous predators and leeches, fanatic religious zealot fools or duped fools.

Even NY Times centrist pundit Thomas Friedman says, "I have never known a time in my life when America and its president were more hated around the world than today. I was just in Japan, and even young Japanese dislike us. It's no wonder that so many Americans are obsessed with the finale of the sitcom "Friends" right now. They're the only friends we have, and even they're leaving."

This article started as a speculation on what it took to get an apology out of Bush, a man who operates through blaming the weak, protecting the powerful guilty parties because anyone who fails under him also knows enough about what a colossal incompetent he is so that they would be able to contribute to his collapse and destruction if they were not allowed to stay on-- like Tennet, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Libby....

It is tragic that such a small majority of active American voters have been able to create such a vile, reprehensible untouchable who most certainly is the most hated, most loathed man in the history of the world. I wonder how Hitler's supporters felt when he was the most hated man. Did they realize they were supporting a monster? Were they proud to be contributing to his power? What about after Hitler fell, or Mussolini, or Idi Amin? Did their supporters realize what they'd helped to create? Did they stay loyal to their monsters? Did they see the light and experience regret? George is not the first ugly, planetary monster to be created. We should learn from his and his predecessors. Like dinosaur researchers, paleontologists, who study dinosaur shit, we should be studying the destroyed industries, the fraudulently justified actions and causes, the ecological disasters and the lies built upon lies and more lies that enabled Bush and his malignant predecessors to attain power. That way, at least we can begin to understand what enables a tiny fraction of the people on this planet to insanely ejaculate such loathsome creatures into such positions of destructive power upon our planet.

Rob Kall rob@opednews.com is publisher of progressive news and opinion website www.opednews.com and organizer of cutting edge meetings that bring together world leaders, such as the Winter Brain Meeting and the StoryCon Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story This article is copyright Rob Kall and originally published by opednews.com but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog or web media so long as this credit paragraph is attached. Over 100 other articles by Rob Kall

I would just add that many people think of Bush as the chief guilty party, when he is really a spokesperson for other people's words, ideas, and interests. When he tries to put his own voice across (sans teleprompters, of course), his statements are often incoherent, no matter how much he has been prepped by his team. To recycle a quote I posted here yesterday:

"I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are ... probably read the news themselves."

…And to add another few to the roster:

"More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than -- I say more Muslims -- a lot of Muslims have died -- I don't know the exact count -- at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill. "

"What we don't know yet is what we thought and what the Iraqi Survey Group has found, and we want to look at that."

"Yes -- first of all, look, if we had something to hide we wouldn't have met with them in the first place. We answered all their questions. And as I say, I think I -- I came away good about the session, because I wanted them to know how I set strategy, how we run the White House, how we deal with threats. The Vice President answered a lot of their questions -- answered all their questions. And I think it was important for them to see our body language, as well, how we work together. "

Any questions?

Yes, it is the politics of Thanatos (Death), that governs the tiny minds of the bush psychopathology. Add to that the curious outdated Cold War mentality of America's preponderance of power and the dualism of everyone else being a potential enemy, and the stage for massive pain and destruction is set and complete.

What a nightmarish fairy land these fools live in. Let us work towards the hope, with the rest of the planet, that these 'wayward souls' are disposed of quickly, before they dispose of us and make our biosphere inhospitable. Than we can continue with the main task of rebuilding America so that it is a beacon of light rather than a symptom of capitalism's malignant diseases and a cheerleader for ritualized military apocalypse.

it's easy to criticize current events and demonize bush&them when the perfect world isn't around the corner, and perhaps never will be. bush is doing what's right under the circumstances--read reality--, or shld they withdraw and let hell break loose?

If you believe a creationist lying cartoon character like bush is good for america, or the world, than you are a rather sad example of what might once have been though of as a noble human experiment. The character flaws you envelop seek to condemen humanity to an Inqusition filled Dark Ages.

We do not need to repeat the Dark Ages.

Why do you insist that we do?

>>it's easy to criticize current events and demonize bush&them when the perfect world isn't around the corner, and perhaps never will be. bush is doing what's right under the circumstances--read reality--, or shld they withdraw and let hell break loose?

There are many issues surrounding the false auspices given for this war that are of Nixonian proportions. These allegations have less to do with how Bush handles the current situation in Iraq right now. Whatever he does between now and November doesn't change the facts of how carelessly his administration went about invading Iraq.

I'm not necessarily talking about the idea of deposing Hussein, though for some people, once you criticize this administration's policy on Iraq you automatically become a "Saddam-lover." I'm saying that the US acted as a "rogue state" on a global scale in the process of trying to Justify a war on Iraq. After the fact, it is plain to see that Bush & Co. were obviously determined to go through with no matter what any other nations had to say. Recently, many nations have been taking polls to simulate a mock vote for the U.S. president. Guess who is winning?

"We do not need to repeat the Dark Ages. "

And yet you and yours continue to deny the glaring existence of the barbarism of Islam. The one and only reason we're fighting in Afganistan and Iraq to begin with.

Oil be damned. we are in a war with the death cult of Islam.

Bush may be a none-too-bright, unpolished bumpkin of a President, but at least he's willing to fight this plaque after so many before him failed to act.

"...the death cult of Islam."

Spoken like a true Islamophobe.

BTW, how's the weather over in South Carolina?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"islamaphobe"

Funny. That implies that there is such a thing as an "islamophile".

Which, of course, there isn't.

Parmenides and lucius: maybe you guys cld enlighten us unnoble experimentees and explain the best course of action?

Something, anything, that follows a bare semblance of protocol and, in doing so, doesn't piss off most of our allies in the world. More than ever, America has gotten a reputation for being a pompous "global cowboy," who says "you don't mind if I invade your neighbors, do you?" but plans to rush in with guns blazing either way. The Bush administration has fed this negative national persona so effectively, I wonder that they didn't want it to begin with.

This chain of events was not inevitable. The Bush administration pursued this war from a stance that was deceitful, callous, sloppy, rushed and prearranged. Five ways that it could have been different. God never gave a decree that all is as it should be.