"It is impossible to say with certainty how Bush will be ranked in, say, 2050. But somehow, in his first six years in office he has managed to combine the lapses of leadership, misguided policies and abuse of power of his failed predecessors. I think there is no alternative but to rank him as the worst president in U.S. history."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101509.html
what will history say?
Leahy: Bush Should be "Terrified"
http://greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=704
Should it be terrorfried?
Here's a quote from the article that best sums up why I don't like this presidency:
quote:
Bush has taken this disdain for law even further. He has sought to strip people accused of crimes of rights that date as far back as the Magna Carta in Anglo-American jurisprudence: trial by impartial jury, access to lawyers and knowledge of evidence against them. In dozens of statements when signing legislation, he has asserted the right to ignore the parts of laws with which he disagrees. His administration has adopted policies regarding the treatment of prisoners of war that have disgraced the nation and alienated virtually the entire world. Usually, during wartime, the Supreme Court has refrained from passing judgment on presidential actions related to national defense. The court's unprecedented rebukes of Bush's policies on detainees indicate how far the administration has strayed from the rule of law.
The author of that article has apparently forgotten the susepnsion of habeas corpus rights of Amrerican citizens during the civil war by Lincoln's administration and the interning of American's of Japanese descent during FDR's administration during WWII. Yep, taking away the rights of those terrorist pigs taken from battlefields certainly compares to those two actions by well regarded former presidents.
Ummm ... a few of those alleged terrorists are U.S. citizens (Jose Padilla is an example). Should you take away their habeas corpus rights, too?
The notion you're trying to float that these are all just foreign terrorists is specious.
Ummm. I recall Padilla was indicted. I also recall the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals finding that the Bush administration's detention and treatment of Padilla was lawful. What other American's are being denied habeas relief? And by the way, good job avoiding the other examples of prior president's actions that are far worse than anything Bush has done in the face of national and international crisis.
While I certainly do not agree with everything Bush has done (immigration policy, spending, energy policy), I do not think he is out there condoning the torturing of prisoners. I believe, and again this is my opinion, that he is doing all he can to prevent: hijacked planes from crashing into buildings, U.S. citizens being incinerated or burned alive while at work, persons having no choice but to jump from buildings or burn to death, and all the other horrors this country faced on 9/11.
Padilla was held for months and months without charges before the courts finally *forced* the government to file.
Bush is NOT doing all he can to prevent terrorism. Or else, he would have:
-- closed the Mexico and Canadian borders.
-- would not have signed off on one of our ports being owned by a Middle Eastern country with sympathies to radical Muslims.
-- would not have ordered the invasion of the country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and create a new hornets nest of terrorists.
Bush rocks.[8D][B)][8D]
-- would not have ordered the invasion of the country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and create a new hornets nest of terrorists.
Amen. Unfortunately, I voted for him 4 times.
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Originally posted by rwarn17588
Padilla was held for months and months without charges before the courts finally *forced* the government to file.
Bush is NOT doing all he can to prevent terrorism. Or else, he would have:
-- closed the Mexico and Canadian borders.
-- would not have signed off on one of our ports being owned by a Middle Eastern country with sympathies to radical Muslims.
-- would not have ordered the invasion of the country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and create a new hornets nest of terrorists.
Although, I don't agree with a lot of what the Bush Administration has done the ports were already foreign owned and the UAE has joined to fight against Global Terror and supports the US military. Plus the Coast Guard is still in charges of Security... so not much has changed.
Closing our borders would cause more harm to us than good. Higher security is a must, but we are entering a global economy and America can not afford to isolate itself to the rest of the world.
The Iraq war, well I just see it as a modern day Vietnam.
Directly after 9/11, we were told Osama bin Laden wanted U.S. troops out of the (Mulsim) holy land (Saudi Arabia).
We have since responded by leaving our troops stationed there, and invading two more Muslim nations.
Explain to me how this is fighting the war on terror? What's really going on is the U.S. government is flexing its muscle at this philosophy, and possibly taking further advantage of the opportunity to secure military bases across the middle-east in a pre-emptive attempt to secure energy resources in the event we find ourselves in a real war down the road--with China.
And we are stirring up more and more recruits for the radical faction in the process. More attacks on the U.S. by these radicals is almost certain. But this will just give a government more of an excuse to further take control of the region.
Sometimes it seems that we, the citizens of the U.S., are just pawns in this game of global power plays.
RW: You mean Bush is not doing all YOU would have him do. For the record, just what exactly are YOUR foreign policy credentials? Do you have any or is this more Monday Morning quarterbacking/I can do better/I hate George Bush surfacing again.
Oh, and how many terror attacks have there been in the U.S. since 9/11 (here comes the anthrax letters crowd in the weeks after 9/11)? Can't get past that pesky fact that you will never give Bush credit for...
As for Padilla, what "force" did the 4th Cir. press on Bush exactly? You do not know because you probably have never read the opinion...As I have said before to others, legal opinions are not that hard to read. Read them yourself. Do not rely on other person's interpretation or their personal spin of legal opinions in forming your opinions/talking points.
My foreign policy credentials are the same as George W. Bush's. The whale of difference is that I have more common sense and less delusion and arrogance.
Are you saying the people who just published the Iraq Study Group report are Monday morning quarterbacks, too? In case you've been sleeping, a huge majority of American are now Monday morning quarterbacks. That's what I call a consensus.
And, yes, I do consider the anthrax mailings a terrorist attack.
President Bush's war policies have failed in almost every regard, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group concluded Wednesday, and it warned of dwindling chances to change course before crisis turns to chaos with dire implications for terrorism, war in the Middle East and higher oil prices around the world.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061206/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq
Here's what I don't understand. You have two nations, both sworn enemies of the U.S.
Nation #1:
Never threatened direct attacks on the U.S.
Did not have WMD (despite lies to the contrary)
Never claimed to have nuclear weapons
Posed no immediate threat to the U.S.
Nation #2:
Has directly threatened the U.S. with attack, as well as several of our allies
Is known to have WMD
Has actually bragged of its nuclear weapons program and publicly announced it has tested them
Poses a direct and immediate threat to U.S. forces stationed along its border, as well as the aforementioned allies
Is run by someone who can only be described as megalomaniacal and insane
So which nation did the Bush administration decide to attack? Nation #1 of course...
My favorite theory (which I find intriguing but don't necessarily advocate) is that Bush and his fundamentalist friends hope to spark Armageddon, which of course requires a final conflict involving Israel. Interesting, but admittedly a bit far-fetched.
Still, it can't be denied that Bush and Rumsfeld systematically lied to, bullied, and cajoled this nation into a war that was unnecessary. What exactly have we accomplished? Getting rid of a piss-ant dictator? There are about 150 more out there that are every bit as despotic, some of whom are considerably more dangerous -- back to Nation #2 again...
At least I can say I didn't vote for this fool. It pains me that a man who can't pronounce the word "nuclear" has his finger on the atomic button. And in case you think I'm some kind of rabid Democrat, I DID vote for his old man. :)
I think that Bush meant to attack Iran and just misspelled it.
Iraq and Iran are very similar.
We don't have any cards to play in Iran right now. We have lost all credibility to act in Iran because of a series of events that goes all the way back to the dark ages (1953) when we toppled the gov't. Installing the highly corrupt but US friendly Shah, for the single solitary purpose of protecting Oil interests.
BTW...its relatively well known that Iran gave the US an assist in securing it's borders with Afghanistan.
Not so much in the 80s, but in 90s, Iran worked to moderate, democratize, and improve relations with the US, that work ceased due to the "Axis of Evil" speech, and the invasion of Iraq. Try asking for a little love from Iran now.
But it's not all bad news in Iran, W will soon be gone, and the next president couldn't possibly be more inflamatory towards that country. Equal maybe, but not more. And the next president, in all likelyhood, will actually engage Middle Eastern countries and work on the Palestine issue. As opposed to slaughtering hogs, or whatever is it our "president" does.
My post didn't exactly spell out the actual nation I referred to as "#2"
It's North Korea. Iran's a joke, threat-wise. North Korea most definitely is NOT.
By that logic, I suppose that one could make the argument that North Korea was a "joke" until it actually detonated a nuclear weapon. Which would seem to me, to be all the more reason for Iran to actually want one.
Take these countries seriously, know whats on the ground, these problems can be solved. Treat them like a joke, they'll show us how wrong we are.
When I say Iran's a joke, I'm talking about their current military capability. In a conventional war, it would be negligible. Were they to develop nuclear weapons, which they're no doubt attempting, they would be a threat to Israel, but they're a long way from developing a delivery system that could reach the U.S. or even western Europe. North Korea, on the other hand, has a massive, highly trained, well-equipped modern military, complete with air and naval forces, and can most certainly strike some of our close allies (Japan, S. Korea, etc.) with existing delivery systems. I'm certainly not advocating that we ignore Iran, but NK is ruled by a despotic maniac whose paranoia makes him an immediate and deadly threat... IMHO :)
Wondering why we have had so many ecoli breakouts?
The dimwits running down our country have loosend the tight controls over packaging in their efforts to placate big corporations....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_on_el_pr/gore2008
Al's our man in 08.....too bad we was robbed in 2000.....
"To give you an idea of how frightfully out of touch the Boy King remains, even after this blast of truth and common sense, here's an excerpt from Bush's radio address last Saturday:
"The group declared that such a withdrawal would `almost certainly produce greater sectarian violence' and lead to `a significant power vacuum, greater human suffering, regional destabilization and a threat to the global economy,'"
http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2006/12/assclowns-of-week-53-junior-this-is.html
The boy king's terror law has been upheld--by a Clinton appointee....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_go_ot/detainees_lawsuit
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Originally posted by guido911
The boy king's terror law has been upheld--by a Clinton appointee....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_go_ot/detainees_lawsuit
Judges live in constant fear...does ge doe doe?
quote:
Originally posted by Hawkins
Directly after 9/11, we were told Osama bin Laden wanted U.S. troops out of the (Mulsim) holy land (Saudi Arabia).
We have since responded by leaving our troops stationed there, and invading two more Muslim nations.
Explain to me how this is fighting the war on terror? What's really going on is the U.S. government is flexing its muscle at this philosophy, and possibly taking further advantage of the opportunity to secure military bases across the middle-east in a pre-emptive attempt to secure energy resources in the event we find ourselves in a real war down the road--with China.
And we are stirring up more and more recruits for the radical faction in the process. More attacks on the U.S. by these radicals is almost certain. But this will just give a government more of an excuse to further take control of the region.
Sometimes it seems that we, the citizens of the U.S., are just pawns in this game of global power plays.
Here is something for you to chew on Newbie. Usama Bin Ladin (//%22http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm%22) is not wanted for the 9/11 attacks. Why you might ask? Because there is no hard evidence linkin Usama to the 9/11 attacks. FBI Director Robert Mueller, in a speech at the Commonwealth Club on April 19, 2002, said (//%22http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/02/02-04mueller-speech.html%22): "In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper - either here in the United States, or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere - that mentioned any aspect of the September 11 plot." If you are like me and think we need a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks then you should check out your local Truth group, Tulsatruth.org (//%22http://www.tulsatruth.org%22).
A gift for alt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnliRXAIyIo
There we have it.....posted by a true republijerk who does not understand what the truth is nor what justice and the American way means......
However, Gwee Doe Doe,that was entertaining.
I guess you're a Partridge Family groupie....
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Originally posted by guido911
A gift for alt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnliRXAIyIo
yeah great, Johnny Bonaduce a self proclaimed drug addict is reliable. The dumb a** admits to voting for Bush and still supports the "war on terror" even though pretty much everyone knows it's Bullsh**. Here is a gift for you Guido Bomb Montage (//%22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Wrnj8IBOI%22)
Got a little more time? 911 Mysteries (//%22http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&q=911+mysteries&hl=en%22) Is the best new 9/11 documentary out that goes into full detail about how the towers collapsed.
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alt. After IP absolutely whooped you I am surprised you are still out pushing that b.s.
AOX: republijerk? Wow. Does KOS have you hooked up on some marionette strings? BTW. I support the war. But most of all I support the troops. So I guess that makes me as unAmerican as Johnny Bonaduce too.
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Sean Penn calls for impeachment (//%22http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003523277%22)
Nobody calls you unAmerican Gwee doe.....
But you are a bit of a war monger....
I support our troops but not the whacko neo cons who have flittered away our stamina and our assets .......what a bunch of chickenhawks.....
I think I am starting to feel a draft.....
Don't trust our lying leaders.
some good news, perhaps.
"American officials have been told by intermediaries that Ayatollah Sistani "has blessed the idea of forming a moderate front," according to a senior American official. "We wouldn't have gotten this far without his support."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/world/middleeast/20sistani.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1166590800&en=75cf3747702ac9de&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin
But not because of the deciders....
"The year 2006 will be remembered as one in which the American people and the world rose up to challenge the criminal actions and deceit of the Bush Administration. "
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070101/brechersmith
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Originally posted by tim huntzinger
Sean Penn calls for impeachment (//%22http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003523277%22)
Sean Penn???? Isn't there someone with more brain cells, or at least someone who is capable of stringing together cognitive prases better than him to be a Dem mouthpiece?
"We depend largely for information on these issues from media industries, driven by the bottom line to such an extent that the public interest becomes uninteresting."
He is a total moron and I refuse to rely on actors and musicians for substantive political commentary.
There are plenty of morons about public policy who are actors and musicians.
There also are plenty of morons about public policy who are experienced in Washington politics. You have Sen. Inhofe, Donald Rumsfeld, and a slew of talking heads on cable news shows who supported the Iraq War and insisted it was succeeding until it became painfully obvious to everyone that the whole operation is a disaster for both countries.
So what's their excuse?
From The Chimps brother..."I have no future" -- Jeb Bush tells reporters. GOOD!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061221/pl_nm/bush_jeb_dc_2
and then there's this...Bush to America: If I Want More GIs to Die, That's My Decision. Cause I'm the Great Decider of Death. Next Question?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/179555,bush122006.article
and this....From the UPI: " A new report published Monday documents grim confirmation of the most pessimistic assessments we have made in these columns over the rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq during the past 10 months."
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061218-024118-5015r
"Cordesman is no alarmist, defeatist, or amateur. He is one of the most respected, traditionally cautious and respected military analysts in Washington. His assessment reflects a sober, new mainstream consensus in the U.S. capital. The new secretary of defense, Robert Gates, who was sworn in on Monday, appears to privately share it. About the last person who doesn't is the president of the United States."
quote:
Originally posted by guido911
alt. After IP absolutely whooped you I am surprised you are still out pushing that b.s.
AOX: republijerk? Wow. Does KOS have you hooked up on some marionette strings? BTW. I support the war. But most of all I support the troops. So I guess that makes me as unAmerican as Johnny Bonaduce too.
This one's for you Gwee doe doe...
Stick Another Ribbon on Your SUV
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/12/19/211410/64
I know, your favorite website!
Gates...a way out?
http://pabloonpolitics.com/wayout.htm
George W. Bush: a sadistic, torture-loving sociopath
http://www.blueoregon.com/2006/12/george_w_bush_a.html
"Apparently, nothing focuses this man [Bush] like failure. He seemed energized by the gigantic mess he's made, and eager to make the mess worse. There's clearly something psychological at work here. He's spent his life trying to talk himself out of bad situations of his own making, so maybe this has put him in a comfort zone."
quote:
Originally posted by guido911
alt. After IP absolutely whooped you I am surprised you are still out pushing that b.s.
AOX: republijerk? Wow. Does KOS have you hooked up on some marionette strings? BTW. I support the war. But most of all I support the troops. So I guess that makes me as unAmerican as Johnny Bonaduce too.
IP never "whooped" me. Just cause he bit**ed the most and called me more names does not mean anything. Now I can probably assume you didn't watch 911 mysteries. If you can give me a reasonable explanation for dozens and dozens of people witnessing bombs and explosions then I will consider re-thinking my P.O.V.. But then you also have to explain WHY there were explosions in the basement and why the lobby was exploded. Anyways, as a truther it is not my job to have all the asnwers. That is the job of our elected officials and the Media is supposed to hold their feet to the fire. If you have a lick of sense you know that neither of these things happen.
TULSATRUTH.ORG (//%22http://www.tulsatruth.org%22)
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Iplaw did whup you, Alt. You're just to dumb or stubborn to admit when you've been exposed as wrong-headed.
Just like our president.
quote:
Originally posted by altruismsuffers
quote:
Originally posted by guido911
alt. After IP absolutely whooped you I am surprised you are still out pushing that b.s.
AOX: republijerk? Wow. Does KOS have you hooked up on some marionette strings? BTW. I support the war. But most of all I support the troops. So I guess that makes me as unAmerican as Johnny Bonaduce too.
IP never "whooped" me. Just cause he bit**ed the most and called me more names does not mean anything. Now I can probably assume you didn't watch 911 mysteries. If you can give me a reasonable explanation for dozens and dozens of people witnessing bombs and explosions then I will consider re-thinking my P.O.V.. But then you also have to explain WHY there were explosions in the basement and why the lobby was exploded. Anyways, as a truther it is not my job to have all the asnwers. That is the job of our elected officials and the Media is supposed to hold their feet to the fire. If you have a lick of sense you know that neither of these things happen.
TULSATRUTH.ORG (//%22http://www.tulsatruth.org%22)
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Iplaw did make you look foolish. In addition to Iplaw there was a southpark episode concerning your ideas on 9/11. They made fun of people like you also and took it a step further as they always do. You should watch it.
"I wanna know who took a dook in the urinal!!!??"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wogkDmLlQ&NR
Will Ferrel or George Bush on Global Warming
50 Dumbest things Bush has said (//%22http://www.billclevlen.com/bushisms.htm%22)
Of course, since Clevlen is one of those stooopid Hollywood types, his opinion does not count, evidently.
Will Stinky Cut The Big One?
Sheila Samples
Dec 25 2006
Smirking Chimp
It's almost painful to watch the disintegration of George W. Bush and what's left of his murderous administration. Those who haven't fled are racing blindly through the halls of power, lurching into one another in a desperate attempt to distance themselves from Bush and to escape reaping what they have sown.
Even cutting a bit of slack, it's still inconceivable that any thinking person could spend more than five minutes in the presence of Bush without the shock of recognizing what a total idiot this country has as its president. Other than breaking stuff, killing anything in his path, refusing to admit mistakes, and making an obscene mess of anything he touches, apparently the only thing Bush can do with any success is break wind --pass gas -- fart.
First Fart Boy
In his Aug. 20 U.S. New & World Report "Washington Whispers" under the heading "Animal House in the West Wing," Paul Bedard wrote that Bush not only loves to cuss, but "... the first frat boy loves flatulence jokes...can't get enough of fart jokes. He's also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides..."
Bedard also told the Boston Herald's Margery Eagan that he's heard about Bush's full-salute "Austin Greeting" when new aides arrive. "He likes to gas a couple, and then bring the aide in and see what the kid's face looks like." Eagan, who admitted she was grossed out, commented, "Naturally, the aide can't accuse the President or grimace or hold his nose. This dilemma apparently drives the presidential funny bone wild."
Most of us stopped laughing at Bush's coarse antics long ago. The boastful sound and fury of hot air blasting from both ends of this crude, immature thug as he rips one windy flatulent speech after another while saying absolutely nothing is not only vulgar, but is indescribably evil. The stench of Bush's lies mingles with, and hovers over the growing mounds of mangled and broken bodies of innocent men, women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan -- swirls around coffins laden with American service members sneaked back in-country with no fanfare.
CNN -- The Most Twisted Name in News
Each day, more and more soldiers and marines are blown to bits. Each morning the streets of Iraq's cities are strewn with hundreds of shackled, tortured, beheaded Sunni and Shiite civilians. Yet, for the past year, the hypocritical Congress, corporate media and crusty retired military "experts" sat around gleefully playing politics and fiercely debating whether the Iraqi quagmire was a civil war. It was a rabid debate -- with all participants forced by Bush and Cheney's claims of success to argue but one side with no pretense of delving into the reality of Bush's mad adventure.
Until Nov. 26 when Michael Ware, CNN's Baghdad correspondent, startled the world and brought the civil-war debate to a screeching halt. Kitty Pilgrim, sitting in for Lou Dobbs, asked Ware, "The Iraqi government and the U.S. military in Baghdad keep saying it's not a civil war -- what are you seeing?"
Ware, a seasoned war correspondent who is no stranger to civil wars and has covered the war in Iraq for both Time Magazine and CNN since it began, responded intensely, "Well, it's easier to deny it's a civil war when you live in the most heavily fortified place in the country -- the Green Zone -- and that's where the prime minister, the national security advisor and the top military commanders live. However," Ware continued, "as for the people living on the streets, or Iraqis in their homes -- if this is not a civil war, then they do not want to see what one looks like."
Ware went on to describe the stark inhumanity of neighbor against neighbor, family on family, ethnic cleansing, "institutionalized" Shiia death squads in legal police uniforms who roam the streets, dragging Sunni families from their homes never to be seen again -- Sunnis plunging car bombs into marketplaces...Ware said the recent surge in violence was a result of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr boycotting the Nouri al-Maliki puppet government and parliament as a result of Maliki meeting with "the criminal Bush."
A national dead silence followed Ware's outburst of truth. The next evening, Wolf Blitzer gave Ware a second chance to join the "best political team in journalism" by reigniting the debate. After sternly warning Ware that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Iraq was "almost -- almost" in a civil war, and that the White House, Bush administration and PM Maliki flatly deny it, Blitzer asked, "Is it a civil war?"
Again, without hesitation, Ware reiterated that the horrors exploding around him were nothing if not a civil war. He said, "the debate about whether there is a civil war is fueled either by the luxury of distance -- those who aren't here on the ground -- or by the spin of those with a political agenda to deny its existance."
A week later, Annan set Blitzer straight. He not only said Iraq was indeed in a civil war, but that Iraqis were "better off when a brutal dictator ruled their land."
Michael Ware is no longer in Iraq.
Decisions...Decisions...
The Iraq Study Group (ISG) report was a swat across Bush's rump, and a confirmation that this nation's foreign policy is run by corporate committee. Some thought Poppy Bush and Uncle Jim (James Baker, III) were stepping in yet again to pull Stinky's cajones out of the fire by helping him to save face for the mess he had made. However, those familiar with the Group's Iran-Contra power-brokers know why they stepped out of the shadows now, after three years of bloody violence. The report basically said -- You screwed up again, Junior -- big time. Iraq is so broke, you can't own it, you can't fix it and you can't leave it. You're stuck there, which is fine, because you can't leave until you get the oil, which is why we put you in office and sent you over there in the first place. Get that oil law finalized so we can get the oil contracts before China, India and Russia get there.
Bush is overtaken with strategies and plans from those who sense his confusion and assume he is weakening. Anyone who thinks Bush will admit his mistakes and support the troops by rescinding their death sentences doesn't know Jack about George. During the nine-month gestation period (Mar-Nov) of the ISG Report, 633 coalition troops were blown to bits -- 592 of them Americans. In the month since the ISG strategy died aborning, 80 troops have been slaughtered -- all of them Americans -- three of them today as I write this on Christmas Eve. Tonight, 12 families will kneel and pray for their childrens' lives, unaware that they are already dead.
And so we wait while Bush struts and frets on the world stage and rips one brain fart after another, all signifying nothing. He's gonna weigh the options -- listen to the voices...take the generals' advice...surge up briefly before pulling out...double-punch 'em with a double down and keep on truckin' -- before he announces his decision to stay the course, or achieve the objective or accomplish the mission -- whatever.
The Big One
Bush reminds us often that he's The Decider. Nobody has the right to question his decisions -- not even him -- because history has called him to action, and he is delivering God's gift of freedom to every individual on earth whether they want it or not.
Who can forget the profound deliberation that preceeded Bush's decision to invade Iraq? On 9-11, he announced, "I don't care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some donkey." And, in March 2002, a full year before invading Iraq, his decision was, "**** Saddam. We're taking him out!"
When asked during a press conference last week if he questioned his own decisions, Bush replied confidently, "No, I haven't questioned whether or not it was right to take Saddam Hussein out, nor have I questioned the necessity for the American people -- I mean, I've questioned it; I've come to the conclusion it's the right decision. But I also know it's the right decision for America to stay engaged, and to take the lead, and to deal with these radicals and extremists, and to help support young democracies. It's the calling of our time .... And I firmly believe it is necessary."
We're losing in Iraq, but Bush says that doesn't bother him -- it just means we're going to win if we expand the armed forces, put more and more troops on the streets of Baghdad, and stay the course.
Bush is a brutal, pathological liar -- arguably a homicidal maniac. After losing two wars against helpless, unarmed nations, he's bored. The Decider is moving on to greater things, and those who know how to listen to him know the decision to nuke Iran has already been made. Before he leaves office, Bush plans to spread the same freedoms throughout Iran that Iraq is presently enjoying, only this time he has decided to attack a huge, oil-rich, armed-to-the-teeth nation which has the capacity not only to defend itself, but to wreak death and destruction upon its attackers.
Will Stinky cut the big one on his way out? Or is he just whistling past the graveyard -- yodeling past the skull orchard -- as he goes mano-a-mano with Poppy?
Where's Michael Ware when you need him?
Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.
Good piece, especially coming from an Okie.
The official story (//%22http://www.9-11commission.gov/%22) began to fall apart before 9/11 ever happened. "Operation Expose Government Terror" (//%22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGtOFudmHG8%22) was a call to action by Alex Jones (//%22http://www.infowars.com/%22) in late July 2001. This was the first
documented warning that a false flag (//%22http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag%22) style attack was in the works by our own government.
President Bush himself was warned in the now infamous August 6th presidential daily briefing (//%22http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/%22)
titled, "Bin Ladin determined to attack in the US" (//%22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62ZRjhIGX8%22). This memo specifically warned against Bin Ladin, airplanes, a domestic attack against the United States, and possible targets such as the Twin Towers. It was also reported on the day of 9/11 by NPR that the director of the CIA George Tenet had given a warning (//%22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BknDfJcqSTw%22) to at least one congressman that an attack was imminent. Congressman Curt Weldon was also very upset about the ABLE danger warning (//%22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx2v8ManHIU%22) because the CIA did not share information with the FBI which could have prevented the attacks. CBS news reported that the CIA and the FBI (//%22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzsKrnafr78%22) both had prior knowledge about two of the alleged hijackers that
crashed into the Pentagon and did nothing to stop them. There was also plenty of foreknowledge about Al-Qaida (//%22http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7670330327060011282&hl=en%22) and even memos exposed like W-199-I (//%22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svgQ6ISM7_A%22) which indicate that Bush BLOCKED investigations. John O'neill (//%22http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._O'Neill%22), also known as The Man Who Knew (//%22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4kYe6mG3aU%22) quit his job with the FBI because he was so frustrated with the system that kept him from investigating Bin ladin. Another interesting "coincidence" was the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen's (//%22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB6EWF3vulc%22) television show which accurately predicts the 9/11 attacks.
[:(!]Bush is the worst president that we have had he seems like he wants to be in control of evrything espically oil. I have a friend that came back from Iraq and has been given 6 months to live and they dont know exactly what is wrong with him but he said the people in Iraq hate us being there and really dont like the fact that everyday there are tanker after tanker convoys leaving with their oil. We are stealing from them.
While You Were at War . . .
By Richard A. Clarke
Sunday, December 31, 2006; Page B01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/29/AR2006122901238.html
"As the president contemplates sending even more U.S. forces into the Iraqi sinkhole, he should consider not only the thousands of fatalities, the tens of thousands of casualties and the hundreds of billions of dollars already lost. He must also weigh the opportunity cost of taking his national security barons off all the other critical problems they should be addressing -- problems whose windows of opportunity are slamming shut, unheard over the wail of Baghdad sirens."
Richard Clarke
[^]the president did make the number #1 spot on AOL poll for being the best villian he even beat out saddam and Osama Bin Laden.
Hell, he beat out Satan!!!!!
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20061228005253&newsLang=en
"Satan only took in 1% of the vote, as did Hugo Chavez, Tom Cruise, Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Rosie O'Donnell, among others. "
That really demonstrates just how schizophrenic the American public is these days. He was voted top villan and top hero in the same poll.
" but with only a trifling 13% of the vote."
The Chimp ain't no hero and schizophrenic the American public is not.....those are my fellow citizens and they proved in 06 they won't get fooled again.
At least he isn't Barack Obama. Barack only managed to get 3% of the vote. If you believe this poll then Barack should go ahead cancel his presidential plans.
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Originally posted by ky
[:(!]Bush is the worst president that we have had he seems like he wants to be in control of evrything espically oil. I have a friend that came back from Iraq and has been given 6 months to live and they dont know exactly what is wrong with him but he said the people in Iraq hate us being there and really dont like the fact that everyday there are tanker after tanker convoys leaving with their oil. We are stealing from them.
Google depleted uranium. That might answer some questions.
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Originally posted by aoxamaxoa
" but with only a trifling 13% of the vote."
The Chimp ain't no hero and schizophrenic the American public is not.....those are my fellow citizens and they proved in 06 they won't get fooled again.
Nancy Pelosi and the democrats already made it clear, NO IMPEACHMENT. And they are not stoping the war, so who gives a rats a** the democrats won...There not doing a damn thing.
There's a good reason why impeachment is off the table, at least for now.
Do you want Dick Cheney to be president?
As for stopping the war, there's little the Democrats can do, since Bush is commander-in-chief and all. Maybe they can cut off funding to operations in Iraq, but that's about it.
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Originally posted by rwarn17588
There's a good reason why impeachment is off the table, at least for now.
Do you want Dick Cheney to be president?
As for stopping the war, there's little the Democrats can do, since Bush is commander-in-chief and all. Maybe they can cut off funding to operations in Iraq, but that's about it.
What about a "Vote of No Confidence".
Although, mostly symbolic and little more than a censure at best, it would send a much stronger message than allowing Bush to
"thumb his nose" at the Baker and Company report and recommendations.
According to the Rasmussen Reports, President Bush has a 45% approval rating. In comparison, Nancy Palosi shows a 43% approval rating.
Nice try.
Pelosi has a 39 percent disapproval rating, and Bush has a 54 percent disapproval rating.
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_12_31-2007_01_06.shtml#1168072626
But why do you care about Pelosi? She's one lawmaker out of 400 or so in Congress. She's not the commander-in-chief that's fouled things up so much in Iraq.
Are you jealous of those Armani suits she wears?
[}:)]
$Sieg Zum Reich$!
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y179/rico2/seal.gif)
"Let's send another 60 thousand boots to Iraq... Set up a Job Corps for the Iraqi people... Give out small business loans... Let the commanders have access to a larger slush fund to buy the respect of the Iraqi people and hope 49thousand 8 hundred and thirty seven boots make it home with the Victory...!"
What the Hell are we suppose to win...?
gif courtesy of Pablo On Politics. (//%22http://www.pabloonpolitics.com/%22)
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Originally posted by rwarn17588
Nice try.
Pelosi has a 39 percent disapproval rating, and Bush has a 54 percent disapproval rating.
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_12_31-2007_01_06.shtml#1168072626
But why do you care about Pelosi? She's one lawmaker out of 400 or so in Congress. She's not the commander-in-chief that's fouled things up so much in Iraq.
Are you jealous of those Armani suits she wears?
[}:)]
I just cited the poll and you gave me a website that spun the poll. Thanks, I couldn't have done that on my own.
I thought it was interesting because Nancy Pelosi has been continuously in the news for the last 72 hours.
Why would I be jealous of her Armani suits? They're female suits and much to small for me!
It's not spinning. The poll data are facts.
There are a lot of undecideds for Pelosi in that poll (about 18 percent). The fact is that more people have a favorable opinion than unfavorable of her.
More people have an unfavorable opinion of Bush than favorable, and have for quite some time. That's a fact, too.
You're welcome to keep your narrow and selective worldview of data. I try to look at the bigger picture.
A Sunday Morning Sermon..
For all that feel War is a Good Thing....
But have never been......
There............! (//%22http://youtube.com/watch?v=iWkWSLEW-Ds%22)
[:(!] [}:)] [V]
^thanks Rico
here's a decent writing you will never see in Tulsa World:
http://roziusunbound.blogspot.com/2007/01/maureen-dowd-monkey-on-tiger.html
"If free will is an illusion — if we are, as one philosopher put it, "nothing more than sophisticated meat machines," doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over — that would explain a lot about the latest trend in which everyone is reverting to type."
GO MO
Barney Resigns....Laura only one left?
http://brainsnap.com/politics/white_house_dog_barney_resigns
http://www.blackcommentator.com/159/159_cartoon_question_my_war.html