Where’s Laura?

June 1, 2003 at 6:18 pm | In yulelogStories | 2 Comments

Several months ago, when the marketing of Iraq’s invasion was building, a friend here in Victoria asked me if Laura Bush were dead. It wasn’t a morbid question as such. This person had simply noticed that since the build-up to war, Laura Bush was never seen in newscasts, never visible in photos, never quoted anywhere. I don’t subscribe to cable, and as it’s impossible here to pull in a single tv channel without it, I hadn’t noticed Laura’s disappearance from the network news. I eventually forgot about my friend’s question because I’ve never spent much time thinking about Laura Bush in the first place. But today I was reading reports in the Victoria Times-Colonist and in the Frankfurter Rundschau about Bush’s visit to old and new Europe, his first stop-over in Poland, his supposed reconciliation with Putin, his trip to St.Petersburg’s big birthday bash, his discussions with European and — gasp! — Canadian leaders, his exhortations to same to support the US war on terror that has made the world a more dangerous place, and I was suddenly reminded of that comment from bygone months: where’s Laura? And what, if anything, does Laura signify?

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