On The Movie Quote I have Been Hearing In My Head Every Time I Listen to the News

“Today I settle all Family Business”

– Al Pacino, The Godfather

I remember how disappointed I was when, after weeks of counting and he lost, he still gets to be President (I mean, I don’t get to be President, I’m just sayin’). I also remember in the first days and weeks after Sept. 11th that I was actually a little glad that we had Dubya in the White House, because he clearly was not gonna put up with this shit. Time to strap on the guns, Dad, watch me kick some ass, just like you did.

But who’s he shooting at, and why? (I’m back to wishing the Democratic Stuffed shirt had pulled it off.)

The who is about to be Iraq. The whole country. Not Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction, which apparently are both highly lethal and seem to have some sort of stealth capability. Not the people who perpetuate his power as a dictator, not his personal Goerring’s and Himmler’s. Not the people that are oppressing the citizens of Iraq, who according to even the White House, are the most intelligent well eduacated population in the Arab world. That’s who were gonna end up shooting, and blowing up their homes, and maiming their children. Just average guys and girls, living out their lives under the thumb of a nut-job and just trying to get a loaf of bread on the table.

The why? Best I can tell, its Family Business, ’cause I don’t feel any safer.