i like the more Conservative George Bush. i don't mean conservative the way he would mean it, of course.

for some reason conservative came to mean "moral" or something. and by moral, i mean in the graces of the "one god" -- whom i am convinced is just the god of war. yep, i have been doing a lot of thinking about it. and i know i have written about it before, though i am not sure where.

but there is part of me that wishes i were homer or something. i guess that's where the vergil comes from -- he always wished he could be like homer too. but i imagine there was a war, a great war between all of the gods and the god of war himself.

the god of war, of course, was stronger than the other gods as he had humans on his side. humans are just more given to war by nature. war is, after all, the grand sagacity of life. it is war that we find the greatest range of humanity and human emotions. it is no wonder we have become such cold voyeurs.

it was not hard for the god of war. it was a plan he had worked on for a long time. step one was to convince the humans that he was the only god. this would not be an easy task. the humans had seen what they had seen, and knew first hand of the existence of all gods.

but other gods were not able to strike fear into the human heart as the god of war was. he pointed his finger and told the men, "i am an angry and jealous god," adding "and you shall have no other gods before me." he codified his decree by designating the other gods as "false idols."

from there, it was pretty simple. the only prayers that were answered were answered with war. glory was promised for an afterlife, allowing the new plebs to step loyally into the dark future. ... or something. i don't know. i guess i am not homer.

i guess you can be conservative in a number of ways. three of them are as follows: this "morality" and adherence to the laws of the god of war; belief that government is a necessary evil and should be treated as such; and one who believes that conservation is a prudent course of action. george bush finally became one of these today.

the man can't be moral. he leads an immoral existence, with selfish physical gains and little spiritual responsibility. you couldn't convince me that he has a lack of trust in the government. he is the prince, and his government is his sword. does a prince not trust his sword?

but apparently the man has decided to take a turn at the third. faced with a war that he was unprepared for and a desire to save face before he runs from his responsibilities as he has done time and time again throughout his sad pathetic life, he figures that he can evoke some sort of loyalty to our grandfathers' generation when people were so convinced that war brought peace they took personal sacrifices to see it won.

we aren't our grandfathers, nor our grandmothers for that matter. we saw the peace they brought with their grand weapons fashioned from the nightmares of future generations. war heals. war provides for honor. war turns love into legend. but nothing brings peace other than death. and through death is the only way one finds peace in war.

it's too late for the president now. wars are won before they are begun. and the true mark of a great leader is to recognize when a war is lost, cut your losses and regroup for the future. one who hangs onto foolish ideals in the face of the hard truth is a daydreamer, not a visionary.

i like that george bush thinks that we should now save some gas. but i would have liked it better if he would have had the forethought not to get in a war over oil if you don't have enough to survive if severed from the source. i can't say it enough, the man should be removed from office and tried for the high crime of treason.