New Online Novel Bids Bush Bye-bye

At a Glance:
What: Introducing an online fable about Bush and Iraq War by SLW
Greene
Where: http://slwgreene.blogspot.com
How: To be serialized, four chapter every week. First two available
now.
When: From 9/7/08-1/20/09


New Online Book Bids By-bye to Bush

In the excitement of electing a new president, we sometimes forget
about bidding goodbye to the old one.

I, for one, am not willing to let Bush sneak out the back door. I want
to give him a good bashing before he crawls back into his hole with
the ghost of Saddam Hussein.

With that in mind, I have written an 80,000-word work of fiction about
the Bush years. Like Orwell's Animal Farm, which, of course, took on
communism, my "The Boathouse" excoriates Bush, his henchmen and their
handling of the Iraq War.

I will serialize it online beginning September 7, running through the
inauguration of the next president in January. The first two chapters
are online now. It can be found at http://www.slwgreene.blogspot.com.
I have also created a wiki at http://www.goodbyebush.wetpaint.com so
that everyone can contribute to flailing the pres as he leaves.

Each week I will release four more chapters and invite readers to add
their thoughts at the blog site or the wiki. I hope to come up with an
assortment of "tributes" that will be sent to the ex-commander-in-
chief when he leaves office. Admittedly, it might be difficult to
render all the material into a form Bush can read since he has scant
experience with online resources.

In rec.arts.books, slwgreene had the audacity to say that:

> At a Glance:
> What: Introducing an online fable about Bush and Iraq War by SLW
> Greene
> Where: http://slwgreene.blogspot.com
> How: To be serialized, four chapter every week. First two available
> now.
> When: From 9/7/08-1/20/09
>
>
> New Online Book Bids By-bye to Bush
>
> In the excitement of electing a new president, we sometimes forget
> about bidding goodbye to the old one.
>
> I, for one, am not willing to let Bush sneak out the back door. I want
> to give him a good bashing before he crawls back into his hole with
> the ghost of Saddam Hussein.
>
> With that in mind, I have written an 80,000-word work of fiction about
> the Bush years. Like Orwell's Animal Farm, which, of course, took on
> communism, my "The Boathouse" excoriates Bush, his henchmen and their
> handling of the Iraq War.
>
His *handling* of the war. You mean you wrote an 80,000 word treatise on
the logistics? And came to the conclusion that Bush was wrong on the
logistics? But he wasn't even that much in the loop on the execution of the
war -- it was handled by others for the most part.

And, assuming you weren't lying when you said your book is about Bush's
*handling* of the war, and that your description wasn't a clever dodge of
the question of the legitimacy or efficacy of the war, just what *is* your
opinion on the former?

Let's see, you've got a behemoth of a county in the middle of the M.E. that
is a U.S. ally; you've got al Quaeda on the run in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia and Iraq. You've got a domestic situation where the terrorists
have been kept impotent for going on 7 consecutive years. Well, things
*might* have been better 7 years after a crippling terrorist strike, but how
much better they could have been I'm not sure.

Iraq has all the earmarks now of an unmitigated success. As the next
President begins to draw down, that will become ever more apparant. Now that
covers the logistics and efficacy part of the equation. As to the
*rightness* of the war, it's justice, it's conformity to the principles of
the U.S., I am willing to hear all sides.

*R* *H*

--
"His one secret thought, became like a chain, binding down his spirit, and,
like a serpent, gnawing into his heart; and he was transformed into a sad
and downcast, yet irritable man."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Roger Malvin's Burial"