I post this today because it was written as a comment on Tony's KC Blog today and because it likely won't get the readership and coverage it deserves, given the tragedy and tragic blunder and scope that was and is the nightmare we call the Iraq War and the lies from the previous administration that created it.
A local writer and follower of TKC whom I only know as "chuck" (in blue on the site, :) ), wrote the following and with the one exception to it that there were, in fact, a small group of us who saw through the lies from W's administration and publicly protested the war, before it happened, Chuck is right on target, no pun intended. Please note that, yes, there are some grammatical errors. In the first place, as Chuck says, he gets "worked up" about this subject--as do I--but he gets his point across very well, I think, and if perfect English has to suffer, so be it. Also, finally, be forewarned, it also has some profanity in it. I leave it in here and don't censor partly for Chuck's free speech rights and partly to emphasize what a profane situation the Iraq War is and has been since we allowed it to happen--because we did allow it to happen, people--back in 2003.
The unmitigated disaster that is the Iraq war, is an abomination.
A galactic blunder, fostered on the American and Iraqi people by think tank Republican apparatchiks who aquired superficial and temporary power and gravitas through the Bush ascendancy.
Hundreds of thousands of people, including 4,000 Americans (Not including 250,000 wounded, when including Iraqis.) now lie dead next to the failed policies and legacy of the Bush administration.
Bush's new twist (See Interviews this week.) on WMDs is a disgraceful excuse for a 21st century "fantasy, and a trick of fame".
Charley Sheen, drunk on his ass, could have prepared, thoght out, and executed a better strategy.
I know hindsight is 20/20, but the laundry list of stupidity related to this bloody endeavor is lengthy and were it not so horrifying, laughable.
The blowback from this international adventure will hang like an cheap incense cloud over any mideast efforts for decades to come. No matter what is being discussed, the smell of our failure is always there.
I remember Cheney on Meet the Press, and Colin Powell at the UN. Hell, I believed them. All of America believed them.
They were lying. I get that, if you win, if it works out, ok.
Trillions of dollars later, we didn't win, and chaos when we leave, is our legacy.
Another Gulf of Tonkin bullshit lie.
This group of morons fucked us just as bad as those Captains of Industry on Wall Street (See Great Recession), and the combination of Trillions spent in both cases, is bringing us to our knees.
Money. Halliburton is Goldman Sachs, is Halliburton.
Halliburton had guys pulling down phone numbers driving trucks in Iraq!
Money.
Condy Rice, at this point has the jene se qua of Robert McNamara sans the regret.
11/13/10 7:54 AM
Follow-up comment from Chuck:
A clarification here.
Colin Powell didn't actually know he was lying at the UN. He wa bullshitted too.
I get worked up a bit with this subject.
Its like bad Science Fiction its so stupid.
If you we could dig up Ayatollak Khomeini, put the paddles on the scumbag fuck, and tell him that the US destroyed the only real opposition to Iranian Theological hegemony in the entire Mid East, explain the whole story in detail, he would call us liars, then when finally convinced, leap for joy.
Its tough to get your arms around this turn of events.
We didn't shoot ourselves in the foot, we got it blown off with our own home made IED.
So my thanks, Chuck. Not only did you get it correctly and true and with great energy and conviction but you point out what a lot of Americans still need to learn, again, tragically, and what the whole world needs to never forget since "Those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it," paraphrased.
We should have been better, as a people, than to have let this Iraq War begin in our name. We need to be a better people, by far, than to not learn from it and to ever let anything so wreckless and so humanly expensive and even stupid to ever happen again.
We owe our soldiers and the whole nation far better than this.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
A new day
Thank God. (or whom- or what-ever).
We made it.
A lot of us weren't sure we would.
But we did and we're here.
Doesn't it feel refreshing?
Doesn't it feel as though a great, dirty weight has been lifted off our collective shoulders?
Think of it:
President Barack Hussein Obama.
We came out on the other side of the Bush administration.
As I've said, I wasn't sure we would.
There's two magnificent things about all this, all at once.
The first is that we have a bright, hard-working, intelligent and eloquent President in office, at long last.
And the second is that we no longer have to hear or see or read about that idiot who just left for Texas.
Sure, we'll have problems and sure, he'll disappoint us and we can't possibly get everything we all want but at least we don't have to any longer be ashamed of our President and what he does and what comes out of his mouth.
We, hopefully, no longer will have our government going against us--fighting us to pollute the air or to get their corporate ways and running against our needs, the needs of the people and the middle and lower classes.
"Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
We made it.
A lot of us weren't sure we would.
But we did and we're here.
Doesn't it feel refreshing?
Doesn't it feel as though a great, dirty weight has been lifted off our collective shoulders?
Think of it:
President Barack Hussein Obama.
We came out on the other side of the Bush administration.
As I've said, I wasn't sure we would.
There's two magnificent things about all this, all at once.
The first is that we have a bright, hard-working, intelligent and eloquent President in office, at long last.
And the second is that we no longer have to hear or see or read about that idiot who just left for Texas.
Sure, we'll have problems and sure, he'll disappoint us and we can't possibly get everything we all want but at least we don't have to any longer be ashamed of our President and what he does and what comes out of his mouth.
We, hopefully, no longer will have our government going against us--fighting us to pollute the air or to get their corporate ways and running against our needs, the needs of the people and the middle and lower classes.
"Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Worst. President. Ever.
If Donald Trump, of all people, thinks you're the worst President ever, in the history of the United States, you have screwed up on a pretty large scale. The bar is pretty low on that one.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Important column from another blogger
Friday, January 16, 2009
Most Galling Statement Of The Week
Nominations are being accepted for the most galling statement of the week. Here is my nomination: White House Sees 'Strong' Econ Recovery Early In Obama Admin.
The Bush administration said the U.S. economy should emerge from its slump in the second half of the year - an optimistic forecast released days before President-elect Barack Obama inherits a recession and mammoth budget deficit.
"The actions taken by my administration in response to the financial crisis have laid the groundwork for a return to economic growth and job creation, and they are beginning to show some early results," President George W. Bush said in a letter to Congress that accompanied the annual Economic Report of the President.
The report, prepared by the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, says economic growth should be an anemic 0.6% this year after contracting 0.2% in 2008. The contraction is seen continuing in the first half of the year before growth resumes in the second half. For 2010 and 2011, the White House projects growth of 5.0%.
Reflecting the current drop in GDP, the White House said it expects the unemployment rate to rise to an average rate of 7.7% this year.
"The magnitude of the crisis required unprecedented policy responses to reduce the extent of the damage to the economy," the report said. "These policy actions have laid a foundation for a strong economic recovery early in the term of the next administration."
The White House's report is rosier than most other projections. Last week, the Congressional Budget Office forecast a 2.2% contraction in 2009, a performance that would mark the worst year since World War II. CBO expects the U.S. unemployment rate to peak at around 9% in 2010.
Bush is attempting to take credit for a recovery that has not happened yet, and in fact will not happen at all. His entire eight year term has consisted of nothing but lies, distortions, wasted money, failures to address natural disaster like Katrina, an unfounded war on trumped up lies, trampling of human rights, trampling the constitution, and policy decisions that helped sink the economy.
There is not a single major thing Bush did right, and hundreds of things he did wrong including this ridiculous attempt to take credit for a bailout plan that has clearly failed.
Bush is the epitome of arrogance, gall, stubbornness, and stupidity all wrapped up in a single package. He will go down in history as one of the all time worst presidents. Ironically, the gall of his statements today will help seal that fate, so perhaps we should be thankful for them.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
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I couldn't have said it better myself.
Thanks, Mish.
Most Galling Statement Of The Week
Nominations are being accepted for the most galling statement of the week. Here is my nomination: White House Sees 'Strong' Econ Recovery Early In Obama Admin.
The Bush administration said the U.S. economy should emerge from its slump in the second half of the year - an optimistic forecast released days before President-elect Barack Obama inherits a recession and mammoth budget deficit.
"The actions taken by my administration in response to the financial crisis have laid the groundwork for a return to economic growth and job creation, and they are beginning to show some early results," President George W. Bush said in a letter to Congress that accompanied the annual Economic Report of the President.
The report, prepared by the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, says economic growth should be an anemic 0.6% this year after contracting 0.2% in 2008. The contraction is seen continuing in the first half of the year before growth resumes in the second half. For 2010 and 2011, the White House projects growth of 5.0%.
Reflecting the current drop in GDP, the White House said it expects the unemployment rate to rise to an average rate of 7.7% this year.
"The magnitude of the crisis required unprecedented policy responses to reduce the extent of the damage to the economy," the report said. "These policy actions have laid a foundation for a strong economic recovery early in the term of the next administration."
The White House's report is rosier than most other projections. Last week, the Congressional Budget Office forecast a 2.2% contraction in 2009, a performance that would mark the worst year since World War II. CBO expects the U.S. unemployment rate to peak at around 9% in 2010.
Bush is attempting to take credit for a recovery that has not happened yet, and in fact will not happen at all. His entire eight year term has consisted of nothing but lies, distortions, wasted money, failures to address natural disaster like Katrina, an unfounded war on trumped up lies, trampling of human rights, trampling the constitution, and policy decisions that helped sink the economy.
There is not a single major thing Bush did right, and hundreds of things he did wrong including this ridiculous attempt to take credit for a bailout plan that has clearly failed.
Bush is the epitome of arrogance, gall, stubbornness, and stupidity all wrapped up in a single package. He will go down in history as one of the all time worst presidents. Ironically, the gall of his statements today will help seal that fate, so perhaps we should be thankful for them.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
_________________________________________________
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Thanks, Mish.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Flirting with disaster
So the Repugs threw the Big 3 car makers life line out after all.
For now.
I feel certain that W will come to their--and the carmakers--rescue.
They've got to.
For THEIR sake.
The last thing these Repugs and W want for more of their legacy is to have the demise of the US car industry on their doorstep, like I said yesterday.
The reason why I bring this up again today--other than the fact that it's big news--is because, yes, it happened just last evening but also because of what I didn't mention yesterday.
And that is that it is so painfully obvious that this is those same Repugs attempt to shut down the Labor Unions in Detroit and around the country.
That's what this is, to the largest extent, all about.
Sure, people like Richard Shelby and others can push for the automakers in their own backyards---even though they're, shhhhhh, FOREIGN AUTO COMPANIES.
But they can--and are--going against the Unions, singlemindedly here, while also going against the entire American car industry and all their workers and suppliers. All 2 to 3 million of them out there in the country.
What's really galling about this is that the Repugs big upset was over the Union's refusal to further lower their pay, too.
What unmitigated nerve.
Where were the Repugs outrage, anger and incense over the Big Banks outrageous, multi-million dollar pay, bonus and benefits packages?
Answer: there never was any.
But now, all of a sudden, they want to kill a temporary loan package to one of the most widespread, national industries in the country, just because they think these "little guys", the average worker, these Union employees, won't take further pay cuts.
A pox on their houses, these Repugs.
Don't get me wrong. There's a great deal of truth to the fact that the executives at GM, Ford and Chrysler have been virtually off the charts stupid about running their companies. They should have been making smaller, higher mileage cars for a long time and a long time ago.
They also should have gone much further on making cleaner cars, especially GM, since they killed their electric car. (See the movie: "Who Killed the Electric Car?", menitoned in earlier entry).
I'm no big fan of Detroit, for sure, but taking down a whole industry so you can punish and bust the unions should go in the face of every worker in this country.
Rght this minute, as everyone knew it would, the Dow is down and headed who knows where lower today and the Repugs just don't care. They hate the Unions, they want to cut costs and if they can also help hurt them financially and in any other way, they'll do it, their own reputations and legacies be damned.
And the country, too.
Look at these headlines today, just now, off Reuters:
-Goldman slashes 2009 commodity price forecasts
-Bank of America to cut up to 35,000 jobs
-Retail sales drop for fifth straight month
On top of all this bad news right now, I repeat, the last thing the Repugs want--or need--is to be blamed for ruining an entire, large, multi-billion dollar manufacturing industry in the United States.
I bet W and the White House are paying attention to all this today.
Every once in a while they do.
For now.
I feel certain that W will come to their--and the carmakers--rescue.
They've got to.
For THEIR sake.
The last thing these Repugs and W want for more of their legacy is to have the demise of the US car industry on their doorstep, like I said yesterday.
The reason why I bring this up again today--other than the fact that it's big news--is because, yes, it happened just last evening but also because of what I didn't mention yesterday.
And that is that it is so painfully obvious that this is those same Repugs attempt to shut down the Labor Unions in Detroit and around the country.
That's what this is, to the largest extent, all about.
Sure, people like Richard Shelby and others can push for the automakers in their own backyards---even though they're, shhhhhh, FOREIGN AUTO COMPANIES.
But they can--and are--going against the Unions, singlemindedly here, while also going against the entire American car industry and all their workers and suppliers. All 2 to 3 million of them out there in the country.
What's really galling about this is that the Repugs big upset was over the Union's refusal to further lower their pay, too.
What unmitigated nerve.
Where were the Repugs outrage, anger and incense over the Big Banks outrageous, multi-million dollar pay, bonus and benefits packages?
Answer: there never was any.
But now, all of a sudden, they want to kill a temporary loan package to one of the most widespread, national industries in the country, just because they think these "little guys", the average worker, these Union employees, won't take further pay cuts.
A pox on their houses, these Repugs.
Don't get me wrong. There's a great deal of truth to the fact that the executives at GM, Ford and Chrysler have been virtually off the charts stupid about running their companies. They should have been making smaller, higher mileage cars for a long time and a long time ago.
They also should have gone much further on making cleaner cars, especially GM, since they killed their electric car. (See the movie: "Who Killed the Electric Car?", menitoned in earlier entry).
I'm no big fan of Detroit, for sure, but taking down a whole industry so you can punish and bust the unions should go in the face of every worker in this country.
Rght this minute, as everyone knew it would, the Dow is down and headed who knows where lower today and the Repugs just don't care. They hate the Unions, they want to cut costs and if they can also help hurt them financially and in any other way, they'll do it, their own reputations and legacies be damned.
And the country, too.
Look at these headlines today, just now, off Reuters:
-Goldman slashes 2009 commodity price forecasts
-Bank of America to cut up to 35,000 jobs
-Retail sales drop for fifth straight month
On top of all this bad news right now, I repeat, the last thing the Repugs want--or need--is to be blamed for ruining an entire, large, multi-billion dollar manufacturing industry in the United States.
I bet W and the White House are paying attention to all this today.
Every once in a while they do.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The fox still guarding the chicken coop
Okay, so W put Henry Paulson in charge of the 700 billion dollar boondoggle bailout they requested for all of us--keeping in mind he's a Wall Street investment banker--and what happens? Mr. Paulson slipped a 5 sentence change in tax law from the Treasury that gave these same banks what is expected to be another 140 billion dollar tax write off.
Classic, huh? Almost unbelievable.
Congress is furious. Not enough to really do anything but they're angry. And they should be since this is effectively changing tax laws, which is Congress' job (that's what THEY get bribed--er, paid--to do) and Treasury is only supposed to enforce those laws--not change or create them.
To go one step further, technically it may even be illegal. But since we're in such tenuous, new financial straits and territory--and Congress is filled with spineless, fearful jellyfish--they don't want to make too big a stink over it, for fear it will make things worse.
As things continue to go to heck and we get closer and closer to what seems to be a meltdown of our financial system, let's NEVER forget, folks, that it was President George Walker Bush who took us there.
Let's always refer to this as George W. Bush's Depression.
He's been completely irresponsible on his watch as President.
Let's not let him off the hook, like Donald Rumsfeld is now, regarding the war in Iraq.
These clowns made these messes. Let's never forget it.
Classic, huh? Almost unbelievable.
Congress is furious. Not enough to really do anything but they're angry. And they should be since this is effectively changing tax laws, which is Congress' job (that's what THEY get bribed--er, paid--to do) and Treasury is only supposed to enforce those laws--not change or create them.
To go one step further, technically it may even be illegal. But since we're in such tenuous, new financial straits and territory--and Congress is filled with spineless, fearful jellyfish--they don't want to make too big a stink over it, for fear it will make things worse.
As things continue to go to heck and we get closer and closer to what seems to be a meltdown of our financial system, let's NEVER forget, folks, that it was President George Walker Bush who took us there.
Let's always refer to this as George W. Bush's Depression.
He's been completely irresponsible on his watch as President.
Let's not let him off the hook, like Donald Rumsfeld is now, regarding the war in Iraq.
These clowns made these messes. Let's never forget it.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
The apple didn't fall far from the tree
George H. W. Bush (Bush 1) Quotes:
"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another." Brilliant. A forerunner to W, for sure.
"You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff." What history class was this guy in?
"I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it." Now, there's commitment.
"I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most." ...No doubt.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. ...Wha?
"I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors." ...Unlike Junior and Darth Cheney.
But at least some times he showed intelligence--unlike Junior:
"I'm not what you call your basic intellectual." ...Extra credit for honesty here.
But sometimes, occasionally, anyway, he showed some intelligence, as in these quotes Junior should have followed:
"I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war."
Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome.
If only.
"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another." Brilliant. A forerunner to W, for sure.
"You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff." What history class was this guy in?
"I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it." Now, there's commitment.
"I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most." ...No doubt.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. ...Wha?
"I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors." ...Unlike Junior and Darth Cheney.
But at least some times he showed intelligence--unlike Junior:
"I'm not what you call your basic intellectual." ...Extra credit for honesty here.
But sometimes, occasionally, anyway, he showed some intelligence, as in these quotes Junior should have followed:
"I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war."
Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome.
If only.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
A Lesson
The George W. Bush Administration should go down in history as a lesson for the United States and the world--for Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Independents, the Right, the Left, in short, everyone, everywhere--to show what the world is like when greedy corporations run that same world. It shows its graft, corruption, greed, incompetence, lack of care for the weak, ill, poor, etc., and sheer irresponsibility. It is exactly what President Eisenhower and Ralph Nader, both, among many, many others, warned us about, long before now and it's ignored at our larger, greater peril.
All this said, I should mention, as I said earlier on this blog, it wasn't my intention to have so much of this be about the Bush Administration and corporate America and international conglomerates running roughshod over the planet and its citizens. But with all this administration has blatantly done and with such contempt for the man on the street, it galls me that more people aren't paying attention. It has seemed it needed pointing out. That and the fact that it's cathartic to and for me, to put ideas, thoughts and facts down, so people can either know more of what's going on or, yes, hear my thoughts. It isn't meant to be about me.
Once "W" is gone, next January, I hope to broaden this blog, to more things of the world. It isn't that all the ugliness and selfishness and greed are going to leave the world with his exit, far from it. I just hope the blatant power-grabbing and sheer evil of Darth Cheney and the whole cabal will be gone and we can get back to doing more, better work for everyone's sake.
I'm not naive. We'll still need to change thigs, sure. And corporations aren't going away, along with grubby politicians. But I do hope we improve somewhat, if not a lot. The circumstances are going to require it, I think and believe.
All this said, I should mention, as I said earlier on this blog, it wasn't my intention to have so much of this be about the Bush Administration and corporate America and international conglomerates running roughshod over the planet and its citizens. But with all this administration has blatantly done and with such contempt for the man on the street, it galls me that more people aren't paying attention. It has seemed it needed pointing out. That and the fact that it's cathartic to and for me, to put ideas, thoughts and facts down, so people can either know more of what's going on or, yes, hear my thoughts. It isn't meant to be about me.
Once "W" is gone, next January, I hope to broaden this blog, to more things of the world. It isn't that all the ugliness and selfishness and greed are going to leave the world with his exit, far from it. I just hope the blatant power-grabbing and sheer evil of Darth Cheney and the whole cabal will be gone and we can get back to doing more, better work for everyone's sake.
I'm not naive. We'll still need to change thigs, sure. And corporations aren't going away, along with grubby politicians. But I do hope we improve somewhat, if not a lot. The circumstances are going to require it, I think and believe.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The most unbelievable, George W. Bush
You see? There are three things about George W. Bush that make him so unique. The first two--the main parts, his core, really--drive you mad. But the third one is the relief.
First, there is his virtually total ignorance, especially about all things political and historical. If he were an average citizen, it would be bad enough. But as PRESIDENT, for God's sake, it's criminal--and has turned out tragic.
Then there is almost complete lack of imagination. You wanna' bet "W" has never played a game of chess in his life? (Sure, it's an easy bet but, hey, it's out there). Can you imagine him thinking 3 PLAYS OUT, for crying out loud, as to what someone else will do, if he does "x"? No, ain't gonna happen.
So thirdly, then, is the only thing that comes from this chucklehead that makes life bearable. It's no replacement for intelligence and creativity but if we didn't have "W" for his nearly continuous source of humor--and as a butt for our jokes--we'd all go mad.
Like this, in the paper today: speaking to the The Times of London, of all papers, he 'noted that, like Frank Sinatra, he has a few regrets...'. He says "I think in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric,' the President explained, then added that saying such things as "bring them on" and "dead or alive" might have "indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
If I hadn't read it myself, I would never have believed it.
You can't write fiction that good.
First, there is his virtually total ignorance, especially about all things political and historical. If he were an average citizen, it would be bad enough. But as PRESIDENT, for God's sake, it's criminal--and has turned out tragic.
Then there is almost complete lack of imagination. You wanna' bet "W" has never played a game of chess in his life? (Sure, it's an easy bet but, hey, it's out there). Can you imagine him thinking 3 PLAYS OUT, for crying out loud, as to what someone else will do, if he does "x"? No, ain't gonna happen.
So thirdly, then, is the only thing that comes from this chucklehead that makes life bearable. It's no replacement for intelligence and creativity but if we didn't have "W" for his nearly continuous source of humor--and as a butt for our jokes--we'd all go mad.
Like this, in the paper today: speaking to the The Times of London, of all papers, he 'noted that, like Frank Sinatra, he has a few regrets...'. He says "I think in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric,' the President explained, then added that saying such things as "bring them on" and "dead or alive" might have "indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
If I hadn't read it myself, I would never have believed it.
You can't write fiction that good.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
"W" could even learn from short quotes
...if he read:
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
James Russell Lowell
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
James Russell Lowell
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Say it once and repeat frequently
Let's say this now and make this clear, 9 months before the knucklehead leaves office:
George W. Bush created and, more importantly, LOST this war, that's the long and short of it. The next President, whoever that is, did not lose this war.
Say it again. Say it frequently. Make--and keep--this clear.
George W. Bush, Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and anyone and everyone else who created or helped create this stupid, misrepresented, illegal war and incursion into Iraq are the ones who lost this war. The next person to pick up the mantel of President for the United States has to clean up the mess, yes, BUT THEY DID NOT LOSE THIS WAR.
It would be a gross, unjust miscarriage of justice to say or think that anyone else lost this war but "W" and his cabal. They went in against international law. They chose, arbitrarily and unjustly, wrongly, to go in. They chose to go in with too few soldiers and support. They chose to go in without a plan. They chose to go in without a plan for after the "liberation" and/or fall of Saddamm Hussein. They did all these things, themselves, all alone. Senators Clinton, McCain or Obama (or former Senator Gore), if they are the next President did none of this. It won't be theirs to lose, in any way and it's extremely important to call this out now--and again and again, through next January's inauguration and beyond. History needs to call out these important details and facts.
It would be a gross injustice to the next administration, to the American people and to history to have it labeled any other way than that it was a war--let me repeat again--that George W. Bush and his administration lost.
Meanwhile, this from Yahoo! and the Associated Press just now: "US GI's in Iraq Suffer Worst Week of '0". See it at this link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080412/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
George W. Bush created and, more importantly, LOST this war, that's the long and short of it. The next President, whoever that is, did not lose this war.
Say it again. Say it frequently. Make--and keep--this clear.
George W. Bush, Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and anyone and everyone else who created or helped create this stupid, misrepresented, illegal war and incursion into Iraq are the ones who lost this war. The next person to pick up the mantel of President for the United States has to clean up the mess, yes, BUT THEY DID NOT LOSE THIS WAR.
It would be a gross, unjust miscarriage of justice to say or think that anyone else lost this war but "W" and his cabal. They went in against international law. They chose, arbitrarily and unjustly, wrongly, to go in. They chose to go in with too few soldiers and support. They chose to go in without a plan. They chose to go in without a plan for after the "liberation" and/or fall of Saddamm Hussein. They did all these things, themselves, all alone. Senators Clinton, McCain or Obama (or former Senator Gore), if they are the next President did none of this. It won't be theirs to lose, in any way and it's extremely important to call this out now--and again and again, through next January's inauguration and beyond. History needs to call out these important details and facts.
It would be a gross injustice to the next administration, to the American people and to history to have it labeled any other way than that it was a war--let me repeat again--that George W. Bush and his administration lost.
Meanwhile, this from Yahoo! and the Associated Press just now: "US GI's in Iraq Suffer Worst Week of '0". See it at this link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080412/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Thursday, February 28, 2008
What 8 years of "W" has given us, so far
'cuz someone needs to keep track:
1) The largest debt in the history of the republic
2) The highest petroleum prices in the history of the republic (we should have KNOWN to buy oil stocks in 2000!)
3) The lowest value of the dollar in the history of our union
4) The largest profits for any corporation in the history of the nation, and that by an oil company, 2 years successively--Exxon-Mobil (I'll be kicking myself for years for not buying oil stocks!)
5) An arbitrary war that is costing us American lives
6) The same arbitrary war that was AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW, since we attacked another sovereign nation (why isn't this emphasized?)
7) No end in sight for this same costly war--and costly in terms of lives, first, and money and materiel second
8) A horribly divided nation because he--W--and his ilk pits "us" vs. "them" in all aspects of his career (with such little imagination, it's always "us vs. them", black vs. white, good vs. evil, Republicans vs. Democrats, Conservatives vs. Liberals, "believers" vs. non-believers, America vs. everyone not "with" us, etc.)
9) A government that is, clearly, pitted against the little guy--against the "man on the street" and solidly, four-square for the corporations and the moneyed. I didn't think I'd ever see that. Not this blatant.
10) Tax relief that has been shown to be for the wealthy amidst all this war and debt (really, there is just no shame).
11) An Environmental Protection Agency that doesn't protect the environment--or the nation's citizens--but corporations, instead
12) A Consumer Product Safety Commission that also doesn't protect consumers but--again--protects corporations and their possible profits, instead.
There's more he's done to us--done to our country--but these are the most egregious. We'll be paying for this clown for decades to come.
I can hardly wait until January 19 of next year. In these last months, we have to be aware of what he'll try to get passed in Congress, to further benefit large corporations and, consequently, hurting "the little guy".
Heaven help us.
1) The largest debt in the history of the republic
2) The highest petroleum prices in the history of the republic (we should have KNOWN to buy oil stocks in 2000!)
3) The lowest value of the dollar in the history of our union
4) The largest profits for any corporation in the history of the nation, and that by an oil company, 2 years successively--Exxon-Mobil (I'll be kicking myself for years for not buying oil stocks!)
5) An arbitrary war that is costing us American lives
6) The same arbitrary war that was AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW, since we attacked another sovereign nation (why isn't this emphasized?)
7) No end in sight for this same costly war--and costly in terms of lives, first, and money and materiel second
8) A horribly divided nation because he--W--and his ilk pits "us" vs. "them" in all aspects of his career (with such little imagination, it's always "us vs. them", black vs. white, good vs. evil, Republicans vs. Democrats, Conservatives vs. Liberals, "believers" vs. non-believers, America vs. everyone not "with" us, etc.)
9) A government that is, clearly, pitted against the little guy--against the "man on the street" and solidly, four-square for the corporations and the moneyed. I didn't think I'd ever see that. Not this blatant.
10) Tax relief that has been shown to be for the wealthy amidst all this war and debt (really, there is just no shame).
11) An Environmental Protection Agency that doesn't protect the environment--or the nation's citizens--but corporations, instead
12) A Consumer Product Safety Commission that also doesn't protect consumers but--again--protects corporations and their possible profits, instead.
There's more he's done to us--done to our country--but these are the most egregious. We'll be paying for this clown for decades to come.
I can hardly wait until January 19 of next year. In these last months, we have to be aware of what he'll try to get passed in Congress, to further benefit large corporations and, consequently, hurting "the little guy".
Heaven help us.
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