Rags of Power

Tony Blair is said to have relished sending troops into action when British forces joined the US in Iraq airstrikes in 1998. So says the diaries of a former aide. The British government forced some change of wording in the book, the "relishing" now reads Blair had "mixed emotions." Boys like Blair (and Bush) feel "it is part of coming of age as a leader." Or as some in the press refer to Tony's action “his first blooding" as prime minister. Remember Bush's fist pumping "feels good" on the eve of war.

The ruling elite have truly dredged the bottom of their gene pool for leaders, being unable to find at least two Anglo male figureheads who have a semblance of being men. Not an Ike or JFK among the elite foot soldiers for the new world odor? They give us Blair and Bush. Two limp wristed forever frat boys with flaccid egos. Sadomasochists in suits with coddled tempers.

The two boys of the "free world" were so close when they first targeted Iraq that movies were made depicting their alliance, their hearts beating as one on the war drum.

Females have menarche, males have bloodletting. Bush and Blair have now passed the swagger ritual for real men in their circle of power. And it would explain why both pout, shout, kill; being on the bloody rag all these years with "mixed emotions."