Dreary verses of the Bush-Cheney years
By H. D. S. Greenway | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias,’ written two years after Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo, has been used again and again to illustrate the vanity and hubris of an empire gone to ruin. A traveler speaks of ‘two vast and trunkless legs of stone’ standing in the desert, with a ‘shattered visage’ lying beside them in the sand.
They say you get something new from a poem every time you read it, and I had not noticed before how exactly Shelley described our vice president, Dick Cheney: ‘A shattered visage whose frown/ And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command/ Tell that its sculptor well those passions read.’
The poem is reprinted as an introduction to Robert Merry’s ‘Sands of Empire,’ which takes no notice of the physical resemblance, but has plenty to say about the vice president.
Cheney gets near top billing in the national catastrophe that he and George W. Bush have wrought. It was Cheney who said, ‘I really believe we will be greeted as liberators (in Iraq).’ It was Cheney who formed his own parallel national security apparatus to cherry-pick intelligence on weapons of mass destruction. And it was Cheney who pushed the bogus connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein….”…BS
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