Bush's latest nomenclature

George W. apparently will never run out of new names to try to justify his disastrous Iraq war and occupation. Now, as all the world has heard, the name is Fascism or the impressively hyphenated "Islamo-Fascism."

Well, Wikipedia's article on Fascism starts with this definition: "Fascism is a radical totalitarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-anarchism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism."

Let's see now. Elements of...."corporatism" (so what former oilman is the patron saint of the worst vampires of corporate America?), elements of "authoritarianism" (and who calls himself The Decider and raises himself above the legislative branch by declaring a "unitary" presidency?), elements of "extreme nationalism" (and who has scorned a long line of allies around the world in the process of his warmaking?), elements of "militarism" (so who declared an illegal, immoral preemptive war and now hovers over a vicious civil war in the same arena?)

Enough already.

In the meantime, down in New Orleans there remains another kind of devastation....