Deceitful George, At It Again, and Caught Again

We'd Like To Be Nice Over The Holidays
All the gang arrived just about the same time, and we all got together in the great room, anxious to see what cocktail Schuyler had mixed for us. Tonight he prepared a cocktail called a Firefly which he made with Smirnoff vodka, grapefruit juice and grenadine. On the side, he had some nonalcoholic sparkling wine for those who don't drink and for those on medications that contraindicate grapefruit juice.

We were all commenting on how wonderful it would be if things in Washington were different, so that our comments and thoughts could be nice during this holiday season, instead of always finding dirt Bush would like to sweep under the rugs of the Offal Office. For you city folks, that's not a typo: offal is just awful cuts of meat and carcass leftovers. Nasty stuff.

 

Well, it's hard to be nice and say good things about your Prez when he's always up to no good and lying about it. We mentioned Jeremy and Beatrix's return from England, but failed to say that another good thing about their being back is that we now get daily news reports on world events from a British perspective, and right now, the perspective looks pretty shady. Shady's a nice word for an uglier one that we could use when referring to Bush's antics, but because it's the holiday season, we'll leave it at shady.

 

Beatrix and Jeremy's Report From London
Well, it seems that those rumors about George Bush, you know, the born-again christian, wanting to bomb al-Jazeera, in the U.S. ally country of Qatar, are true, and there's a transcript of a meeting which occurred in April 2004 between Bush and Tony Blair which proves Bush's intentions. All that happened over a year ago, and the story could have died, but on Tuesday of last week, the Daily Mirror, in London, printed the story that Bush had told Prime Minister Blair of his intentions because Bush detests al-Jazzeera for always attacking his actions in Iraq. Jeremy said that even with the report by the Daily Mirror coming to light the story might have died, except for the fact that the Attorney General in Great Britain, Lord Goldsmith decided to prosecute the two fellows involved in leaking the transcript, in breach of the British Official Secrets Act.

Beatrix said that the story is more than a little convoluted, but that in the end it has all to do with Bush's constantly undermining Tony Blair and, basically, acting like the infantile little fascist we know him to be. In a pique of anger, he ordered the botched assault in Fallujah, over the objections of the British, who said that the assault would destroy the gains they had made to win over the hearts and minds of the inhabitants of Fallujah. In another leaked British Foreign Office memo, the British government opined that "Heavy-handed U.S. military tactics in Fallujah and Najaf, some weeks ago, have fuelled both Sunni and Shia opposition to the coalition, and lost us much public support inside Iraq."

 

White Phosphorous ( Read news1 and news2 )
The British are also justifiably angry over Bush's use of illegal chemical weapons on Iraqis. Only in November did the British find out that Bush ordered the use of white phosphorous, which burns bodies right down to the bone. Bush has also ordered its use in Operation Steel Curtain, which is being used to drive insurgents out of towns along Iraq's borders with Jordan and Syria. It seems that Mr. Blair would prefer the world to see that Bush pays him some heed, but events are proving otherwise. "Events in Fallujah and beyond do not give much sign that the U.S. ever heeded any British expression of concern about its methods of dealing with the insurgency."

So Jeremy explained, it's all proving to be too much poop dumped on Blair's plate, and he cannot govern effectively as long as Bush keeps acting like the jackass he is.

 

Elizabeth chimed in: "And this is what he does to our closest ally?" We've told you before, sweet family, these Bush people. Anyway, it's almost certain now that since this is going to court in Great Britain, the entire five page memorandum/transcript is going to have to become public. Happy Holidays, Georgie.

 

Enough, Enough, Cried the Teenagers: Let's Eat
I think one reason the kids were so hungry was that every time Max opened one of the doors to the porch, they could smell the little shrimp he was grilling on cocktail skewers and was planning to serve with his delicious Cuban Mojo sauce. They immediately sat down at their table and we went in to the dining room. In just a minute Max had served us all our Grilled Shrimp with Mojo Sauce. For the adults, Max served us our favorite sherry, Tío Pepe.
Charlotte helped Max prepare the exquisite Oyster Bisque which always pleases all of us. For the bisque, they served another sherry, this one a very dry Domecq La Ina sherry.

 

Max took advantage of the grills' already going, and prepared Grilled Swordfish with a Southwestern Green Salsa, made with tomatillo and cilantro. With grilled corn and an interesting jicama salad on the side, the wine Charlotte and Max selected was a good pairing. They chose a Willamette Valley Winery Pinot Gris, which had spicy pear and apricot flavors. It was a light wine, and we really enjoyed it with the fish, which Max always manages to grill to flaky perfection.

 

Tonight, Max didn't think he wanted to cleanse our palate with a sorbet or granita, so instead, he immediately served us the beautiful steaks he had been grilling while we ate our fish. Charlotte had steamed some beautiful spinach and broccoli, and told us that her secret to keeping those vegetables green was to always add a tiny pinch of baking soda to the water. The wine they poured was a 2001 Château Souverain Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, an elegant wine with flavors of black olive and herbs.

Cathy baked several apple pies, simply, as good old-fashioned U.S. fare. With her exquisite handmade vanilla ice cream, all we needed was some of Max's special-blend after-dinner coffee, which we had in the great room so we could spend some time with the teenagers.

 

Because the teenagers were fully aware of the topic that had consumed us tonight, they understood the sadness of Liz's quote from Sir Winston Churchill, a statesman of a stature Bush could never even begin to understand. The quote touched on the subject of allies, and we all understood that Bush has lied and lied to, and used, the British and Tony Blair. Here is Liz's quote: "It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and the American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace."
One of our teenagers said he didn't think Bush's stature even reached the top of the soles of Churchill's shoes.

 

Summary:
George Bush continues his deceitful game of fraud; tricking the British people and his one sole ally, Tony Blair. He tricked the U.S. Congress, and now he's lying to the British. As the wise man said, what were those 59,054,087 people thinking when they "elected" this anointed Prince of Darkness, who is going to cause immeasurable harm to Tony Blair's ability to continue to govern within a parliamentary system which is so much more open than our system?

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