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TechnoratiEvents of last week offer a metaphorical glimpse at the delusion pervading President George W. Bush's White House and other enclaves of Iraq supporters in Washington. Bush and the First Lady spent last Monday clowning with the Easter Bunny (White House counsel Fred Fielding having donned the costume).
At the American Enterprise Institute war-cheerleaders, dressed as academicians, were delivering a panegyric on how peaceful and stable the situation in Iraq had become. The "surge," they announced had nipped a civil war in the bud.
"The civil war is over," AEI's Fred Kagan, co-author of the surge, declared proudly. Brookings twins Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack led the cheering section.
Meanwhile, back in the southern Iraq city of Basra and elsewhere, full-blown civil war seemed about to explode. And in Baghdad, formerly protected folks were getting killed by mortar and rocket fire in what is customarily referred to as "the highly fortified Green Zone," which has sequestered U.S. embassy and military officials as well as those of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government.
Two American officials and two Iraqi guards of Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi died in the Green Zone attacks, which are continuing.
At ABC in New York, Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer was trying hard Thursday to understand it all. Shaking her head in disbelief after four straight days of attacks on the Green Zone, she asked how a round "can actually get inside the embassy; how fortified is that?" ABC national security correspondent Jonathan Karl let her down easy, explaining that artillery fire can actually get "over the walls...so it does happen: they do get inside the embassy compound."
A teaching moment. Mortar and artillery fire can actually get "over the walls." Quick. Someone tell Gen. David Petraeus.
But Don't Bother Bush
No need to drag the president away from the Easter Bunny with such nettlesome detail. Interestingly, it was Sawyer herself who asked Bush, during an interview on Dec. 16, 2003, where he gets his news and how he reacts to criticism. The president's answer was revealing:
"Why even put up with it when you can get the facts elsewhere? I'm a lucky man. I've got...it's not just Condi and Andy [Andy Card, former chief of staff], it's all kinds of people in my administration who are charged with different responsibilities, and they come in and say this is what's happening, this isn't what's happening."
By Thursday, someone did tell the president about Maliki's big gamble in taking on militias loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr in the Basra area, the stiff resistance Iraqi government forces encountered, and the application of U.S. ground and air support.
And someone told the president to take the line that the outbreak of major violence was "a positive moment," and so that's what he said. No matter that the upsurge in hostilities threatened to demolish the myth of a "successful surge." The White House spin machine could be counted on to take care of that. And, for good measure, the shelling of the Green Zone could be blamed on Iran. Indeed, Petraeus was quick to label the projectiles "Iranian-provided, Iranian-made rockets."
Reality? We Make Our Own
It is comfortable to stay in denial, and President George W. Bush basks in it. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska saw that early on. In June 2005 he told U.S. News & World Report:
"The White House is completely disconnected from reality...it's like they're just making it up as they go along."
Would that someone had summoned the courage to tell Bush of William F. Buckley, Jr.'s observations about Iraq in the National Review on Feb. 24, 2006:
"Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an invading army of 130,000 Americans...Mr. Bush has a very difficult internal problem here because to make the kind of concession that is strategically appropriate requires a mitigation of policies he has several times affirmed in high-flown pronouncements. His challenge is to persuade himself that he can submit to a historical reality...different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."
A few months later, on June 13, 2006, Bush flew to Baghdad to size up Prime Minister Maliki. The president told American troops gathered in the "heavily fortified Green Zone" that he had come "to look Prime Minister Maliki in the eyes-to determine whether or not he is as dedicated to a free Iraq as you are. I believe he is."
This, of course, was not the first display of the president's propensity to draw significant impressions from eyeballing foreign leaders. Five years before, Bush had quickly taken the measure of Russia's Vladimir Putin: "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy...I was able to get a sense of his soul."
Souls can change, I suppose. But apparently not eyeballs. Maliki's retinal scan apparently remains valid for at least two years, judging from the president's automatic endorsement of Maliki's major gamble last week in the Basra area. Bush has now ordered U.S. ground and air units to support Maliki's effort. The general objective is to root out Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army units in the area, but the campaign faces formidable obstacles and does not appear to be going well.
Doesn't Make a Lot of Sense? So?...
In the past, Bush has let himself be convinced by Vice President Dick Cheney's "analysis" that increased enemy attacks were signs of desperation-an indication that the enemy is in its "last throes," if you will. And it seems clear that Cheney is still, as Col. Larry Wilkerson has put it, "whispering in Bush's ear."
That is scary. There were abundant signs during Cheney's recent visit to the Middle East that, among other things, he continues to be receptive to Israeli importuning, as Israeli president Shimon Perez put it on March 23, to deal with what both referred to as "the Iranian threat" before Bush leaves office. Bush and Cheney seem to have given Israeli leaders the impression that the Bush administration has made a commitment to do precisely that.
Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser to the president's father and who was appointed Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board by the son, took the unusual step of going public with a startling remark in Oct. 2004 that should give us all great concern. Just before he was sacked, the usually discreet Scowcroft told the Financial Times that former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had George W. Bush "mesmerized." Eyeballing again-this time in Bush's direction, it appears.
And Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, with masterful tutoring from the psychologists in the Israeli Mossad, has shown he can duplicate the spell. Who can forget watching Olmert's fulsome praise of George W. Bush during his recent visit to Israel and how Bush seemed to turn to putty. Aw shucks, he seemed to be saying. At least the Israelis respect me. And they are "mighty tough fellas."
Attacking Iran
The point is that if Cheney and Olmert both whisper "attack Iran," the president may give the order with the full expectation that-with Admiral William Fallon out of the way-a malleable secretary of defense and martinet generals and admirals left over from former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld's reign will salute smartly and launch a much wider and more dangerous war in the Persian Gulf area. (After all, those rockets hitting the Green Zone are, according to Gen. Petraeus, "Iranian-provided, Iranian-made.")
Why attack Iran? Israeli officials have not been reluctant to insist publicly that they want our impressionable president to take care of their Iran problem before he leaves office.
Last October, for example, Israeli ambassador to the US, Sallai Meridor, rang several changes on the theme of Iran's "threat" to Israel. In warning dripping with chutzpah and unintended candor, the Israeli ambassador served notice that countering Iran's nuclear ambitions will take a "united United States in this matter," lest the Iranians conclude that, "come January '09, they have it their own way." Meridor stressed that "very little time" remained to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and the time frame he has in mind is clear.
Why attack Iran? Well, also, just because! Because, as Bush is fond of saying, he is commander in chief. And he considers the U.S. armed forces his plaything. And because he can. Never mind the consequences. When has anyone held George W. Bush accountable for consequences?
Worse still, Bush's open-ended rhetorical commitment to defend Israel if attacked could spell big trouble. If Iran were to strike Israel, Bush has said, "We will defend our ally (sic), no ifs, ands, or buts." That is great rhetoric; trouble is that it surrenders the initiative to the Israelis, who have it within their power to provoke the Iranians.
And, Please, No Jimmy Baker
Bush chafes at any thought that those he considers his father's cronies could rein him in. Bete noire number one is the fella the president calls "Jimmy Baker." Negotiate with Iran? Draw down troops? George W. Bush will instinctively do the opposite. If Baker says Guantanamo should be shut down (as he did, joining five other former secretaries of state last week), then keep it open.
But, most of all, enjoy the last ten months of "unitary executive" power.
That is perhaps most disturbing of all. George W. Bush is tap dancing through it all. And the worse things get, the more jocular he seems to become. Commenting on Bush's recent manic behavior, Justin Frank, MD, author of Bush on the Couch, suggests that Bush is "acting like a kid planning to make a real mess as only he knows how-given his comfort with sadism, his lack of shame or conscience, and his propensity to take delight in breaking things."
Trouble is that as he tap dances the next few months away, he is systematically destroying the armed forces of the United States, and there does not seem to be anyone with the courage to try to stop him.
Eight months ago, Dr. Frank and Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) collaborated on an article we called "Dangers of a Cornered Bush." The president and his imperial court now have ten more months to act out. The scenarios we explored in that memo are still worth pondering.
Let me close with a remark Seymour Hersh made last year, even though it may seem flippant and in no way conveys the enormity of the danger we face in the coming months:
"These guys are scary as hell...you can't use the word 'delusional,' for it's actually a medical term. Wacky. That's a fair word."
With so much destructive power at the disposal of George W. Bush, we need to be increasingly alert to signs that additional delusionary policies are about to be executed.
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. During his 27-year career as a CIA analyst, he worked closely with George H. W. Bush when he was C.I.A. Director and later at the White House. Ray is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
This article appeared first on Consortiumnews.com.
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Show Allto WTF: The seeming Iranian silence on this matter is telling.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is Bushes best butt lover. He's looking forward to trashing the militants of his nation too. Petraeus was definitely just following the script he was given. But the script came from the financial dominant and they know where the rockets came from and it probably was nuclear scary Iran. Ahmadinejad is taking orders from the same person that Bush is taking orders from, the financial dominant, who the CIA calls God. Neither Bush nor Ahmadinejad will have a hair split over the mass murder that will be played out with their participation.
That the Iranians were able to ship IED's and now rockets into Iraq with impunity speaks to their working with connections at the top levels of politics in Empire over Iraq, the USA, connections to satellite surveillance, connections in customs and border inspection.
When the USA military attacks Iran, most likely following a US nuclear atrocity, it will be with the blessing of the top levels of Iranian politics.
What!? You think the CIA is the only government agency in this world sold on overpopulation rhetoric and BS?
Perhaps "Triumphant" is proper for dissuading the central bankers for nearly 200 years.
If one reads of how the founders viewed the corporations of that era, they are the same as NOW. The bankers know their "market", and also know that w/o strict control, that they have much less satisfying profits and little political influence for policies that also are measured by increased profits.
¿ Boston Tea for anyone ?
¿ Hows the recent $200 bln taxation w/o representation going for you (and your children's children)?
Namaste
"They knew by signing that document and gathering an army to fight the British crown they were signing there own death warrants if they lost the revolution. They (we) were triumphant for a time until the moneychangers took over."
We weren't 'triumphant' at-all (read the Treaty of Paris--1783, and see 'who paid who Reparations'...then read the Jay Treaty, then note who lost their Capital in 1812...).
"Triumphant", indeed...!
Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, and member of the faculty at the Tavistock institute which specializes in mind control, whom some consider to be the father of modern advertising.
Namaste- I believe the next cycle is here and there is a sufficient amount of folks who have contextualized the current psychopathic phenomena playing in front of there eyes. WE(Us) want the shackles off. This cycle will not be about (detailed planning),(careful anticipation). It will be reactionary in nature. It has started with small cells. It was only 3% of the colonialist who rose up against the crown. The rest wanted the status-quo. Swaying the hearts and minds has already been done by the Edward Bernays crowd. Pick up any daily and what do you read? Watch the HypnoBox and or listen to most Radio stations. Btw I don't believe I used the words war or battle instead I used the signatories of the DOI and there plight as a metaphor for us to realize what they were willing to sacrifice.
BlueApples26 --An action w/o the pre-paved establishment of BEINGness (CONTEXT, not just CONTENTS), will most likely turn right about back to the original situation. People need guidance to establish the CONTEXT, proper and accurate information to establish the RATIONALE, and empowerment to establish the ultimate actions needed.
ACTION is the last part of any creation, and PREEMPTIVE action w/o detailed planning and careful anticipation is pre-determined to FAIL.
The best action is the sway the hearts and minds of ALL that each one of us knows, with such sincerity and purpose, that they then are empowered to carry forward to each additional cycle.
This is not a WAR nor BATTLE of lines of tanks and troops -- it is a battle of MINDS and PERCEPTION and THINKING.
One neuron at a time
Namaste
I see all the comment quipsters are at it again. This regime knows we," me and you" will do nothing about the dire situation that we as a country and even the world is in. They know we will not make the ultimate commitment to take back what has been taken from us. We have become fat and lazy from our watching, reading and commenting on DailyKos, Commondreams, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, CountDown, CrooksandLiars, GuerillaNews, DemocracyNow and so on. I don't see any of our intellectuals stepping up and calling for a revolution. They would be arrested for sedition and treason if they did so and they know it. Will we jeopardize our families, families, families, jobs (careers)-indentured servitude, property-that we really don't own to throw this fascist regime ( corporate, executive, legislative, judicial) off our backs such as the signers of the declaration of independence did. They knew by signing that document and gathering an army to fight the British crown they were signing there own death warrants if they lost the revolution. They (we) were triumphant for a time until the moneychangers took over. So all this blathering will do nothing except boost your ego for a moment and make believe you are doing something to change all the wrongs that are happening in our world. We are harmless unless we act. Action equals change (chaos). Non-Action equals status-quo (control). Remember if voting really changed anything it would have been made illegal a long time ago. So who of us will make that sacrifice so we as a species can become truly free? Let us start here on this land and show the world what life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness truly is.
I think we need to create a "last straw" lottery jackpot, for the winner of what exactly turns the American people's "bulb above their heads ON", or whatever, replace the bulb for a good one …
If we can consider and discover where the weakest link to the brain of the sleeping public were, and then perhaps we could begin a massive whispering_in_the_ear of America.
Starting with 1,000 seeders, each talking to 10 friends or neighbors, spiraling outward (if one cycle each day), then in LESS THAN one week we'd have the following:
_______ 1,000 MONDAY
______ 11,000 TUESDAY
_____ 111,000 WEDNESDAY
___ 1,111,000 THURSDAY
__ 11,111,000 FRIDAY
_ 111,111,000 SATURDAY
""
Here's the idea, we make it an quasi-pyramid scheme and enroll each "contact person" to promise to pay a dollar to the winner of the lottery, while also collecting any ideas for what the event will be.
OK, I'm not too practical, but somebody who is could make this work out to not only spread the information, but encourage the process to accelerate.
How about it?
Namaste
"It's about setting up a police state for those who protest too much when the awakening comes."
You are spot on MiMiCcS. I keep getting shocked at the sheer volume of fuck-ups in Bush's tenure until I wonder if they are, indeed, just mistakes.
Rather than see the last seven years as a long series of bad decisions, we need to get over the notion that Bush and John Q. Public share some kind of common allegiance as Americans. With that realization in mind, we see that the last seven years (at least) have been an exercise in pilfering the infrastructure and citizenry of the US through a variety of means (tax cuts, climbing oil prices, war expenses, etc.) and passing the loot onto the uber-rich.
Notice how the new soaring rates in diesel prices are only really effecting the small, independent trucking companies? It's to wipe out the small competition, stupid, and leave only conglomerate trucking companies, just like Walmart and Target have virtually wiped out mom and pop stores, or how Amazon has devastated independent book sellers.
Notice how the Fed races to bail out the Big Banks whose irresponsible lending practices gave us the subprime mortgage crisis and tanking economy while leaving millions of homeowners holding the bag?
It's a scam, America. Bush might be stupid, but that's not why he makes these bad decisions. They are only bad from our perspective; from the perspective of his uber-rich buddies, they are the only possible decisions.
And when we finally wake up to this and finally decide to do something, I think it will be too late. Too many Executive Orders, signing statements, whimpering Congresspeople, and Wars on Terror around to allow us to do anything about it.
I didn't ask about the writing, maybe it took an interpreter. He just said the crates said "made in Iran".
He also said that the U.S. should bring troops home from all foreign countries. This was a year ago.
Comming from one of the elite units, I think we are kept in the dark about what these soldiers are saying.
Mordechai -- Perhaps \/\/ has written too many checks than he cannot cover, and the landlord of his estate has raised UP his rent ?
It might explain the increasingly thinner lips, jittery impatience, and shaken strutting -- AS IF some big hand had reached up his netherness, to cuddle his precious with poignant reminders of his Faustian deal.
(Or he might need a LOT more fiber in his diet.)
Namaste
Ray,
What are you talking about? Bush can't dance. The man has no rhythm (just like Karl Rove. How embarassing was that when Rove tried to dance to rap music!!). He can't orate. He can't hold an intellectual conversation. I agree with PEOPLEFIRST that there must have been a typographical error claiming his IQ is 139. I think they moved the decimal point too far to the right. It needs to shift left by at least two spaces. Either way, send the a**hole back to Crawford where he will feel more at home being around the cow***t that comprises what he is!
The only person George Wanker Bush ever looked in the eye is the devil and he is the landlord of Bush's putrid character.
Hey, Greg Bacon, you forgot to tell Georgie to hold the book RIGHT SIDE UP this time.
Bush dances because he knows McCain will carry on his legacy without opposition.
The republican party voted for-and the United States Supreme Court selected-a man who is totally out of touch with reality.
He truly is dangerously delusional. The man is mentally ill. The republicans and the Supreme Court gave the presidency to a man who is completely "out of touch." He is insane.
Report: US Embassy moving elsewhere. Sunni group claims GreenZone attacks
The Qatari paper AlArab had this on its front page this morning:
A military source lifted the veil on information that the American ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker has decided to change the location of the American Embassy [which is now] in the Green Zone in Baghdad, because it has been suject to a series of rocket attacks in recent days, that have led to the killing and injuring of a number of American employees.
General Faisal AlAsafi, commander of a Green Zone entrance-protection unit, told AlArab that American Ambassador Ryan Crocker gave the order Saturday night to more the location of the Baghdad Embassy, temporarily, from the Green Zone to an alternate location, which he didn't specify. He said a crew composed of dozens of officials and diplomats moved the contents of the embassy to another location toward the west[ern part of] Baghdad, fearing additional rocket attacks on the Green Zone, insisting that the move is a temporary one, with the aim of the success of the joint forces in stopping the rocket attacks on the Green Zone, and pointing out that the British and Australian embassies might take the same decision in the coming hours.
And Asafi said many parliamentarians and ministers have emptied their premises in the Green Zone following a series of attacks that were accurate and precise in targeting the offices of foreign embassies and the government of Iraq, and the homes of many of ministers and parliamentarians.
The AlArab reporter notes that American officials have barred his paper and others from bringing any video equipment into the Green Zone since the attacks started, and have barred the taking of any pictures of the damage.
The AlArab reporter still assumes that all the attacks have been by the Mehdi Army. But Roads to Iraq points out that there has now been a published claim of responsibility by the Sunni resistance faction Jaish al-Muslimin, part of the Jihad and Change Front, for all of the attacks on the Green Zone since Saturday March 29 and including those of this morning (Monday March 31).
Source: Arab Links
Gettin' a little too hot for you boys? Maybe all those mortars dropping in on your sorry asses is the Iraqi people's way of telling you to GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.
Did you move to Anbar province? You know, that place where you have been giving money and weapons to Iraqi Freedom Fighters so they'll be your friends?
Like they say, out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Wonder what "No Brain McCain" will have to say to this
development?
Or will Joe boy Lieberman have to whisper in John boy's ear what he needs to say?
As for the "Commander in Thief?" Time to snort some more whiskey and drink some more cocaine George, and read another bedtime story about pet goats.
An attack on Iran will do wonders for the price of oil. I guess the American economy is doing so well at present it could cope with a real spike in the price but what about those of us who live in the real world?
I won't worry about Iran (they are FAR too 'useful' to Israel/the-West to 'eliminate' so early in this "Great-Game" -- and both 1953&1979 amounted to MAJOR-Investments on the parts of the CIA/Mossad).
But, since the departing BushCo needs to 'lay up the ball' for yet-another neo-Lib/Clinton (who will kill far-more & more-broadly -- via 'soft-Power' and GMO-starvation -- than this Admin 'ever-dared' to kill militarily) -- I AM concerned that before they 'leave', they will help 'realize' ersatz-Israel's strongest-hope, for decades-now...
Specifically: the destruction of all possible Syrian-opposition (military or political) regards the LONG sought-after capture/theft of Lebanon's Litani River and thence the "breadbasket-farmlands" laying South of all that precious-water -- and all the way up to its Syrian-headwaters -- while leaving the Lebanese & the Hezbollah/Palestinian-refugees unable to oppose any much-planned oil-pipelines [that will stretch from Kurdish-Iraq to Haifa-refineries/portage] -- once Syria cannot 'threaten' any of these obvious Goals/Ambitions, either). [Jordan already virtually an Israeli-Suzerainty/Satrap]
Israel has KNOWN it would need these oil/water/'security'-Resources (absent in 'their Homeland' itself) since at-least the 1930's -- and has always 'worked-hard' towards their 'acquisition' since...by "any Means necessary".
This would/could be Bush's "Longed-for Legacy" -- if he can possibly pull-it-off within his remaining Term...
America no longer exists as a sovereign nation except in your minds. We have already been globalized, our leaders have betrayed us. There is a crypto-one world government that is running most of the world, not all yet, and the dismantling of America as a Superpower is necessary to complete the final stages.
Once it is over and we are bankrupt, we will be forced to sell our gold and valuable assets like our military to the global government to pay our debt. Just like we do to 3rd world nations.
Why everything seem crazy and insane is not because Bush and company are crazy and insane, or stupid and delusional, it is because the reasons for doing what they are doing can not be explained without letting you in on their little secret. You have been living in a reality that does not exist, it has been altered to keep you calm. While you have been getting gang banged, you haven't felt a thing except an occasional "WTF is happening" over a strange sensation, like when Bush starts doing a tap dance, then it passes.
They will let us know soon enough, once they are ready, what do you think they need Homeland Security and what all these crazy laws and Executive Orders are all about. It's about setting up a police state for those who protest too much when the awakening comes.
Bush is not delusional. He has pleased his masters and will be well rewarded once he leaves office. Mission Accomplished.
"There has to be something in the constitution that protects the "people of the United States" from un-elected crazy men."
Well, yeah, it is a well armed militia, made up of its citizens. But that was the thinking in the days when everyone pretty much had the same weapons as government. It does not work today. Basically, we are scr*wed. Games over.
If Iraq is so peaceful let GWB,DC,CR and the whole lot of cheer leaders visit Iraq pre announced (and not make SURPRISE visits like thieves) @take an unescorted walk in the streets of Baghdad for just five minutes, OUTSIDE THE GREEN ZONE.
I am sure none of them will return to tell the tale.
So much for safe Iraq!!
The American tragedy in Iraq, is that your friends(Shia) in Iraq are aligned with your enemies in the region, and your enemies(Sunni)in Iraq are allied with your friends in the region.
Listening to George talk (I use the word loosely), I would guess that his I.Q. must be in the high 70's. But that's only on a good day!
But if one judges his actions (like Iraq) then an I.Q. in the low 40's would be a fair estimation.
Of course, morally, he doesn't register at all!
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BAC- What needs to be done is what happened to Mussolini. Or the War criminals of Nuremberg.
It TAKES TOO LONG to impeach Bush and his inmates. The danger they pose needs to be medically treated and contained. Straight jackets should be harnessed onto them, and they should be delivered and confined somewhere similar to the detention centers they created for torture. They need to be sent to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity.
I'm not being sarcastic. This is the necessary first step needed to restore and heal the shattered world.
There has to be something in the constitution that protects the "people of the United States" from un-elected crazy men.
I fear, satretc, that you are correct. What preparations are being made? Think about that.
WTF The phrase "... strongly doubt the veracity of the statement ...", tragically, has a fairly uniform application these days, alas! All that power in the hands of someone who has no credibility. A government which fewer and fewer people can believe. And we are responsible for it, or so we proudly proclaim to the world.
The Made-in-Iran labels were obtained via a $20,000,000.00 no-bid contract with Halliburton, who got them for free on the internet, but I won't name the printer. You can easily find it yourself. The aerosol adhesive was treated as an add-on to the original deal, on the same basis (national security executive privilege war time necessity)
They'll send us the bill.
"Some organization recently estimated George Bush's IQ to be somewhere around 139."
Maybe someone misread/typed something and the 13 was supposed
to be an 8. Otherwise, I'm going to claim my dog's IQ is at
least 70 and the rest of us here are geniuses.
"Why even put up with it when you can get the facts elsewhere? I'm a lucky man. I've got…it's not just Condi and Andy [Andy Card, former chief of staff], it's all kinds of people in my administration who are charged with different responsibilities, and they come in and say this is what's happening, this isn't what's happening."
This, of course, was not the first display of the president's propensity to draw significant impressions from eyeballing foreign leaders. Five years before, Bush had quickly taken the measure of Russia's Vladimir Putin: "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy…I was able to get a sense of his soul."
A few months later, on June 13, 2006, Bush flew to Baghdad to size up Prime Minister Maliki. The president told American troops gathered in the "heavily fortified Green Zone" that he had come "to look Prime Minister Maliki in the eyes-to determine whether or not he is as dedicated to a free Iraq as you are. I believe he is."
What a scary thought...this clown has the fate of the free world in his hands, and we are reduced to trusting his "look in their eyes" bullshit?
Someone please get Shrub the hell out of office now-tell him there's lots more brush that needs clearing in Crawford. Anything. Heaven help us.
"I'd be interested to see Dr. Frank's analysis of Hillary or Obama. I'd be willing to bet that, from a psychiatric standpoint, we'd be a lot better off, especially with Obama in the Oval Office. McCain strikes me as another tyrant who'd delight in pushing people around."
As would I, JohnR.
I remember seeing something a little while ago about all 3 candidates' childhoods. All 3 had strong fathers, though Obama never really knew his. Clinton and McCain both had military fathers who expected much from their children. I remember listening to Clinton describing how her father would throw the toothpaste tube out the window and make the kids go out and get it if one of them left the cap off. She said it with a sense of glee and pride. I'm convinced that to this day, they are all still little kids trying to make their daddies proud.
As for Bush - his mommy is the tyrant in the family, and a scary one at that. And the poor little rich kid will never live up to his old man. W is like little Richy Rich with the largest arsenal in the world as his toybox. Shit.
IMPEACH both BUSH and CHENEY...........NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's a well known flim clip of Hitler doing a little dance - at Berchtesgaden. As I recall it, it was on his receiving news of the Nazi's taking of Paris.
When recently I saw Bush II on a 60 Minutes clip doing a similar dance on a patio of the White House because of 'good news' he'd received from Iraq, I'd coincidentally just scarffed a big lasagna dinner and unfortunately vomited it before I could get to a bathroom toilet.
I hope that not too many other viewers got this explosively sickened by the Bush clip. On the other hand, it wouldn't be unwelcomed sign to me if they did.
"Justin Frank, MD, author of Bush on the Couch, suggests that Bush is "acting like a kid planning to make a real mess as only he knows how-given his comfort with sadism, his lack of shame or conscience, and his propensity to take delight in breaking things.""
Some organization recently estimated George Bush's IQ to be somewhere around 139. They apparently didn't take into consideration his "emotional" IQ, which appears to be in a much lower range. Any moron can break things. Being able to put them back together is a sign of intelligence.
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The bottom line on profits not one
(The corporations I must repay
Except for Enron and that Kenny Lay)
For I was born riding on a bomb
On a fly by wire bomb
And you got to be the one and carry on the name bomb.
So I's the MIC mark one
I's the one naught one one naught
One naught naught one
So I's the red rapture button one the top gun one
The mission accomplished one
The shock and awe one, naught naught one.
I's the misunderestimated one
To be one to be not one naught one
Oh Virtual joy
A One naught sky
Guided by one naughts
Shock and awe one naughts
One naught logic
Colored in newspeak one naughts
Re spun one naughts
Digital bliss
To be one naught not one
To be one naught one one naught
To be one naught
To be one naught one
Oh digital joy
To be the top one the top gun
the one naught one the red rapture button one.
According to Bush this is just proof that the surge is working. Don't worry, be happy.
From what I read the Iraqi Army and Police just turned over all the weapons we have given them for years to the Mahdi army. There are parades all over Iraq today of Mahdi army driving their new armored Humvees in formation.
So Muktada now has all the heavy weapons we gave the Iraqi army, yet when the Maliki government demanded that the Mahdi army turn over its heavy weapons, they replied that they could not because "they don't have any" at the same time they are thanking the Iraqi Army and Police for turning over the weapons the "occupiers" gave them to Muktada al Sadr's forces.
Bush's war sounds like it was scripted by Mel Brooks.
Worry no more, long-suffering Americans. Plans are afoot for an invasion of your country.
We in the rest of the world cannot stand to see you suffer further knowing that you don't know how to get out of the dictatorship you're under.
Yes, the Forces of Righteousness are planning to save you. The initial plan has been formulated and help is on the way. My blog has more.
Down with Bush and Cheney!
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That somebody needs to be The People as it should be. The tacted I'm using now is to link 9/11 to Bush/Cheney betrayal and treason:
9/11: Never Forget that Bush/Cheney manipulated with lies your sorrow, grief and anger over the attacks on the World Trade Center for political and personal gain - this is betrayal.
9/11: Never Forget that Bush/Cheney used the blood of the Troops and the gold of your treasury to help Halliburton move it's headquarters to Dubai - this is treason.
9/11: Never Forget the lies, sacrafice of blood and squandering of treasure continue daily.
Protect The Troops:
Impeach Bush/Cheney!
Change The Mission:
Impeach Bush/Cheney!
Uphold The Constitution:
Impeach Bush/Cheney!
Health Care Not Warfare:
Impeach Bush/Cheney!
Justice For All:
Impeach Bush/Cheney!
I was a little kid, 3, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Does anyone else here have a sick lead-in-the-belly feeling about the delusional Bush and his executive powers as it relates to Iran? Doesn't anyone have the cojones to tell Israel not to incite this idiot to lethal action?
Will someone please tell me what the heck we can do about this? Congress, individually and collectively, is not listening. This sick feeling is just like when I first heard about military action in Korea, Vietnam, Gulf I and II, Granada, Afghanistan, and Iraq...it is not going away...it is getting worse. This maniac in the Oval Office can REALLY get us all killed in 10 months.
Didn't Iran used to get its missles from China a few years ago? Or am I thinking of Iraq? Who does the sell their missles to now?
As for impeaching, both the crazy monsters, Bush and Cheney need it! Nancy for President!
Well, I've no idea what alphabet the Iranians use, and I don't claim to know whether any weapons or ordnance in Iraq is made in Iran, but I'd be pretty surprised that any of the latter have written on them, in any alphabet, any version of "Made in Iran."
if ISRAELIS are indeed "God's Chosen People", then no doubt GOD will punish them for having relations with the US.
i could be wrong but i think the irani use arabic alphabet generally for all their major languages.
Will somebody please IMPEACH this stupid bastard before he destroys the world.
Again I ask, what can 130,000 American troops do in an area where there are one billion Muslims that mostly hate us? Does that register with anyone else?
Pere Ubu - I wondered if anyone would make that point. Iran apparently assisted in calming the supporters of Sadr. I heard about it this morning only briefly, but it did not sound like the actions of a country that is doing everything it can to disrupt and agitate.
After 5 years in Iraq, do we expect Bush to do something reasonable or smart? Are we hanging on to a sliver of hope that he is not going to make the Democrats inherit a mess?
By now, we should see that Bush's main goals in Iraq were control of oil, permamnent bases, and endless war in the middle east.
He can safely say that he accomplished 2 out of 3 and by the price of oil going up...at least his buddies in the Oiligarchy...are making heck of a killing! many small companies are spending the war budget with no-bid contracts but delivering absolutlely nothing to Iraq...so who is the real fools, us or them???
One wonders if Bush retreat to a bunker as his dream collapses around him.
And who will hand him his grandfather's Nazi era Luger or Walther to 'finish the job'?
Or will the world be treated to the last two minutes of 'Dr. Strangelove'?
NMBill, does your friend read Farsi, or were the labels in English? Rather considerate of those Iranians to label their munitions in English, I'd say.
A friend came back from Iraq, he said they were find cases of weapons with the "Made in Iran" stickers all over them.
Iran must really be dumb to advertize!
They know the missiles were made by Iran because the letters "made in Iran" done with a black marksalot said so...on the convenient piece of metal that was not destroyed....kinda like the passports that were not destroyed during 9/11...ahem. The evidence must meet the need...or lie.
AD, I think you give Bush too much credit for thought.
kathyodat
kivals wrote: It seems that Bush aspires to be Israel's suicide bomber, sent into the world to blow himself up for Israel's interests...
I wish he would practice in the Rose Garden.
As Ray points out some presidents are too scary for the average Congress to impeach.
Because Bush is not cornered could be why He hasn't done the suicide real war with Iran.
Some here say Bye Bye America.... I'll stick to Bye Bye Bush.
Better that some drug lords in Paraguay kidnap him and nobody cares.
Hello election 2008 or plebiscite for fascism and goodbye to what little is left of democracy in the USA if Hilary Rodham Klanton heads the Democratic national ticket or is able to bloody up Barak Obama. It will be a politcal coup like the one in Germany in 1934 except less direct when the Nazis directly allowed that country to vote giving all the power to the Nazis for as long as they wanted it and won overwhelmingly.
I'm skeptical even W would start a war in Iran, with the military top brass having already taken the nuclear option off the table. He doesn't want to see the US, war machine, which he regards his own, get an even bigger booty whipping than its had in ages.
Aaaaaand we find out today that it was Iran who had helped broker the stand-down of the Mahdi Army in Basra.
Well, I mean. That just makes it all the more important we attack them, right? After all, interfering in the politics of poor lil' sovreign Iraq, a country just trying to be all free and stuff... how could they possibly get away with something that awful?
And lord knows those missiles HAD to come from Iran! Why, the hut-dwelling primitive Iraqi culture couldn't have POSSIBLY come up with something that sophisticated on its own! (Yet we had to invade 'cause they were on the verge of building nuclear weapons! Well, why worry about contradicting ourselves when there's an empire to be forged?)
It seems that Bush aspires to be Israel's suicide bomber, sent into the world to blow himself up for Israel's interests, only metaphorically of course for him, but real for the victims.
When we attack Iran, it will be different, as our great military leaders such as Petraeus (Be Tray Us) have learned from the mistakes in Iraq and know how make war successfully now. Besides, those Iranians cannot be trusted and need to be taught a lesson.
We also have all of those aircraft carriers in the Gulf that are loaded down with planes and bombs, so it would be a shame to bring them back before using all of their fantastic new equipment and ammo. McCain (McWar) will know just how to handle all of that type of peacemaking and liberation.
WTF, I agree. However, there was no forensic examination following the largest attack on American on 9-11; they sure as hell aren't going to do one on a few explosive devices that reportedly came from Iran. Even if they did, how could we believe them? How can we believe anything from this administration?
I'd be interested to see Dr. Frank's analysis of Hillary or Obama. I'd be willing to bet that, from a psychiatric standpoint, we'd be a lot better off, especially with Obama in the Oval Office. McCain strikes me as another tyrant who'd delight in pushing people around.
JameM, good point. Didn't exactly make headlines, did it? But you know the old saying. No news is good news. Best to keep the American voters dumb and happy.
kathyodat
And the Democrats, whose oath of office charges them with upholding the Constitution, will just stand aside and let it happen.
Accessories to murder. We need to clean house. And Senate.
kathyodat
Help!!!
Does anyone else think it is strange that no one is talking about the U.S. embassy "officials" that were killed?
Zionists and Likudniks control more than Bush or Cheney, they control the Democratic party and big chunks of MSM as well. They don't care what happens to this great country of ours, and will discard us when we're broken. It's been that way for some time, but has gotten much, much worse over the last 27 years (advent of Reagan).
Yep, there's a socialist, anti-American, nuclear-armed country in the Middle East, and the country's name begins with an "I", but it ain't Iran or Iraq.
I strongly doubt the veracity of Gen. Petraeus' statement "Iranian-provided, Iranian-made" that came so quickly after the attacks on the Green Zone.
I would expect that a full forensic examination of exploded and unexploded ordnance would take several days at a minimum, and more likely, several weeks to months, before such a strong statement accusing a sovereign country of war-like intervention.
We should remember the last time the US tried this that the so-called "Iranian-made" weapons that were displayed publicly and filmed for global release was subsequently proven wrong by having Arabic writing on them (not Farsi, as one would expect of something actually made in Iran).
Yet another false-flag event like the faked "Tonkin Gulf" incident in Jan this year.
Bye bye Murca. America went bye bye a long time ago. So did democracy. What we are witnessing a bye bye to now is all that is left: Murca. Bye bye Murca. Bye bye. Murca is a child. So when we say bye bye we should make a little bye bye gesture with our hands. I cutesy little bye bye wave. Bye bye Murca. :)
national security presidential directive no. 51
bye bye, election 2008
bye bye, democracy
bye bye, america