work in progress

to be honest with you, i have no real political knowledge. I am not really that politically motivated but the assignment calls for a beauty vs. beast type of thing. Once the assignment became more open, i wanted to take a different approach to beauty vs. beast. Our beloved president George Bush in all of his infinite wisdom, is portrayed in a glorified presidential view, showing him at a podium leading our nation. For the beast side of this project (which i am still currently working on the under drawing) will show our president as the fear that he has dangled over our heads. He will be portrayed as the enemy, a terrorist. It seems as though ever since 9/11 the word terrorist has been used as a sort of population control. Not population control in the way of numbers, but in the way to keep people afraid of an unseen enemy. Im not saying that the threat of terror isnt real or even somewhat frightning, i just think that we have lost sight of our origional goal as a nation. It seems to me that there is more to the story than just the fact that we are being threatened by "terrorists". Even having the enemy being called a general term "terrorist" is kind of decieving, its a generic name that has a way of instilling fear. There can be many groups of radical people living in our homeland that can be called terrorists that are allowed to exsist. The enemy has been automatically portrayed as an arab man with a beard and turban. If you look at our retaliation to the terror attacks of 9/11 and our origional goal of getting the group that did it, we have only completed a third of our goal. We made sure that nothing has happened since. That is our only victory. We started out invading Afganistan to get that rat bastard Osama Bin Laden, but we ended up getting Saddam Hussein, and havent left Iraq. But we did it with the fact that the "Terror Alert" is high, the terrorists are winning we must defeat them. The fact of the matter is we were not wrong to invade Afganistan, and there is some sort of good that came around from getting Saddam, the problem is that in our efforts to put in place a stable form of government in Iraq falls short of the goal of retaliation for 9/11. I am ranting now, so to get to the point of the beast side of the project, i am showing Bush in the eyes that the people in the countries we are "trying to save" as a man with two faces. President of the free world vs International Terrorist.