In this couple years of war I have often been reminded of the movie Dr. Strangelove, especially with the propensity of the warbloggers and Administration to ignore such facts as the lack of connection between Iraq and WMD, 9/11, desire for Democracy, etc. Of course this could be a rambling discourse on the 1984ization of our political world and how it manifests itself in Bush Administration policies that make one constantly think of the Kubrick masterpiece. Shoot, we can just look at the Right Wing Clerics, standing behind a religion based in love and then excusing in the next breath actions like Abu Ghraib and Fallujah - that's a damn good start. (Perhaps the Right Wing Clerics ought to remember what the code for stopping Stragelove's Doomsday device was. . . POE . . . and it ain't the author.)
But, no. I just want to focus on Merkin Muffley, whose name equals love, at least from a perverse phallocentric angle. What is a merkin?
It is, of course, a pubic hair wig. Perhaps Mr. Armstrong Williams could use one to cover up the sores he's gotten prostituting himself for the President. And of course, we all know that "muff" is yet another slang term for a woman's pubic hair. (Did you know "pudenda" means "embarrassed" in its archaic form? More phallocentrist language I believe I learned from Simone de Beauvoir.) Of course "merkin" and "muffley" do not stand for "love." Except in that testosterone soaked world of Dr. Stranglove, where 'Buck' Turgidson is there to save the day. Dang but doesn't this sound familiar?
So why bring this up? Well, what does "Bush" mean? Yeah, he's got a name with the same meaning as does the President in Dr. Strangelove. All that remains for us is to cast the other characters.
Who among the Bush cronies would play General 'Buck' Turgidson? Brigadeer General Jack D. Ripper? Who would play Colonel 'Bat' Guano?
Come on, it's a game, and while Kubrick's characters are clearly cartoonish, well, so are the Bush crew. Help me here, people!
If only the whole thing in Iraq were to end in a pie fight, as was intended by the original movie ending. . .
