Letters to the Editor
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We Have Been Attacked Since 9/11
Last night President Bush again claimed that we haven't been attacked since 9/11, but in November 2001 he described the anthrax attacks as "a second wave of terrorist attacks upon our country" and repeatedly characterized the attacks as terrorist.
Four Americans have died as a result of these acts of terrorism…The Postal Service and the FBI have offered a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest and the conviction of the anthrax terrorists…We do not yet know who sent the anthrax — whether it was the same terrorists who committed the attacks on September the 11th, or whether it was the — other international or domestic terrorists. We do know that anyone who would try to infect other people with anthrax is guilty of an act of terror…I’m proud of our citizens’ calm and reasoned response to this ongoing terrorist attack.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011103.html
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Once again~!
Barak is Hebrew
Barack is not
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Anonymous, grow a pair and stop posting anonymously.
See, one of the differences between me and you, is that I can view a politician, and while I may not agree with a lot of what they do, I can still see the good they have done. I don't let my emotions (i.e. hatred) overpower my logic. You do. I disagree with much of what Bush has done, but I don't believe he is pure evil, as so many state here.
I also don't try to pretend that I know how he will be remembered in the future. Say the perfect scenario happens and Iraq becomes a strong ally in the middle east, they find Saddams WMD's and proof Al-Qaeda WAS working with Saddam. Will be remembered poorly then? Not that any of those will necessarily happen, but if we can atleast come away with Iraq as our democratic friend in the Middle East after all this, I'm guessing he will be remembered not quite as poorly as you think. But then again, I don't really know.
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@ kirkaracha
That was before it turned out that the anthrax was domestic in origin. Big difference.
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@another anonymous biatch
Once again~!
Barak is Hebrew
Barack is not
How about Adongo? What's that? You don't hear too much about Obama's bro.
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"Let's put this embarrassing eight years of US history behind us."
I'd prefer we remember the past eight years, but I have little faith that we'll learn anything from it at all.
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Or as the Onion put it a few weeks ago
"Bush Begins Preparations for Nation's Final Year"
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Someone Please Help This Person!
Say the perfect scenario happens and Iraq becomes a strong ally in the middle east, they find Saddams WMD's and proof Al-Qaeda WAS working with Saddam. -- kufir77
This is basically what you're saying: Just suppose for a moment that Bush was right and those beans he bought (for $2 trillion dollars and 4,000 dead soliders) really were magical after all! Just exactly like he promised. History will honor him then, won't they?
The rebuttal: Um, yeah, I, uh, I suppose if the beans really do turn out to "magical" then, yes, theoritically the $2 TRILLION dollars he put us in debt (to communist China and Islamic radical Saudi Arabia) in addition to the tens of thousands of soliders he put into wheelchairs fighting a civil war in Iraq would technically be worth it.
But you can see why 99 percent of us really don't believe Bush when he tells us the beans are magic, right? Iraq is going to be "winnable" in any real sense and the "magic" Bush promises us in the form of "protection from terror" isn't exactly logical.
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Heh heh,
And I'm so angry, because he's made me lose faith in my fellow Americans - all those people that voted this dangerous fool into office and then kept him there.
How about all those who trusted the other puppets, the Dumcraps, to come back into Washington to 'fix' things? They sure fixed things alright.
And the lesson never does stick. Too many still hold faith in a bankrupt, corrupt and elite controlled Democrap/Republican duopoly. This year, the ONLY candidate talking about cleaning Washington and resetting it on the right course, Ron Paul, is dubbed unelectable even though more people rally behind him than behind anyone else.
Clinton won with only 38% of the vote. Make Ron Paul the winner and FIX this nation again rather than driving it into the ground as you DEMOCRATS are. It really does depend on you.
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Truth
He Really Is Not Evil
He is a hollow tube through which evil flows.
-- Trainman
That has to be the best explanation of George W. Bush that I have ever heard.
Well done!
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Hollow tube of evil
I like that one too, but I still think Margaret Cho's quip was the best:
Bush isn't Hitler. But he could be if he applied himself.
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two thoughts
I didn't watch the speech, like someone else I watched "How I Met your Mother"...the belt gag was pretty hilarious if you ask me.
but two thoughts:
1) I get the sneaky feeling that Bush actually cares about Immigration Reform and the millions of illegal immigrants within the American borders. If I recall, his plan was surprisingly progressive for him...it just doesn't jive with anything else he's done in the last seven years. I don't get it.
2) Just as a thought excercise - had the Democrats actually gone and tried to impeach Bush, who do you think it would've helped? Hillary b/c it continues the battle that her and Bill were central to in the 90s? Or Obama with his "let's put all this nastiness behind us" rhetoric? I suspect Hillary would've really benefitted from an impeachment proceeding. Any thoughts?
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The Insurgency Responds to Bush's SOTU address
here
http://tshirtinsurgency.com/blog
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@ kufir77
"but if we can atleast come away with Iraq as our democratic friend in the Middle East"
But, that was not THE reason, nor even a justifiable reason for invading and occupying Iraq. The "imminent/urgent/immediate/serious and mounting/unique threat" posed by Iraq's/Saddam's WMD. Or, at least that was the agreed upon selling feature.
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Humane? Oh, please
Debaser, what you're missing about Bush's immigration policy is that it has NOTHING to do with being "humane". That is a complete joke.
Bush wants hordes of illegals streaming over the border because it provides dirt-cheap labor. Companies can pay barely above slave wages, raise profits, and (in theory) the economy is boosted by lower price points on consumer goods.
While importing illegal workers may keep the price of lettuce down a few nickels, it doesn't account for the billions of dollars we are spending on services for people who contribute almost nothing to the tax base. The state of California alone is spending $12 billion a year on social services for illegals.
Continuing to import poverty into our country and paying these poor people dirt wages is the furthest thing from "humane", on both sides of the border.