Lizzy Chaney has a daddy problem. She should not feel isolated by this fact because we all have a daddy problem in one form or another. After all, we all had a daddy. In every case a sperm cell comingled with an egg cell to form the embryo of another unique human being, who never existed prior to this moment nor will ever exist again in this life. We all got here in the same way. Some of us spend a lifetime immolating our fathers and some of us spend a life time running as fast as we can away from our fathers. Both reactions to our fathers are a problem because they are an oversimplification that hides our own best path in this life. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to recognize the error of our ways, hopefully there is a happy medium but all of us seem to function best and most frequently on the extremes.
Lizzy has
staked her life motive on defending her father, Dick Chaney, the former vice
president who served with President George Bush in a Republican
administration. Following the tragic towers bombing in New York, 2001, the Bush administration
went to war with the Islam extremists who preached the killing of all Americans, Americans
who just happened to be mostly Christians. This Bush-Chaney administration, as opposed to the first Bush administration, was all about perpetuating the power of the new
Republican bureaucrats, who were and are hawkish, desiring to feed the military
industrial lobby in Washington. As a result, the Bush-Chaney administration not
only defeated Saddam Hussain but then invaded the entire country and began the expensive perceived
goal of building a democratic state in Iraq.
The pretext
for this invasion, the nation building and the four trillion-dollar expense to
the American taxpayer was the accusation that Saddam had weapons of mass
destruction. Our so-called intelligence leadership in Washington confirmed the
accusation, promoted the lie and we the people were sucked. The well-meaning patriotic Americans who fought,
died or lost their legs in this conflict, were suckered but the sanctity of their grave sacrifice will
only be honored by the truth. After the
war, no one could find the weapons of mass destruction.
Twenty years later, Lizzy is warring with Donald Trump because of what she calls, “the big lie”. She means the Trump lie that is the truth, the truth that the entire Iraq debacle was a gigantic mistake or a willful misjudgment that only happened because some political interests wanted to make a dime. This dime bought heartache for millions of Americans.
The Washington bureaucrats, the greedy lobbyists as well as
the Bush Chaney administration, were all complicit and guilty of suckering and selling out the
people. The truth sometimes is hard to
accept, but accepted or not, the truth is still the truth.
Maybe when
her father passes from this life, Lizzy will let go of the angst and accept the
truth. Until then, we can better
understand our own journey by attempting to understand Lizzy. The really sad and scary part of this sorted story is that all the guilty profiteers' of war remain entrenched in Washington, whether under Republican or Democrat control.
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
