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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The death toll in Mexico from the War on Drugs is over 9,000 now. That's how many 911s? How many Iraqs?
I notice the word "surge" is being used now in the context of Mexico. And guess what -- the object of this "surge" is not to end the war in Mexico -- just to keep it from spreading across the border.
Obama better come up with some new kind of drug policy pretty soon, or the blood from Mexico is going to stain his political resume too.
What did they tell Sandra Bullock in "28 Days?"
"The definition of insanity is backing the same drug policy year after year while expecting the drug gangs to turn their noses up at the obscene profits and spontaneously stop killing each other over turf wars."
I think that's how it goes, right?
I did some homework of my own and now understand that Rawley was originally quite professional and correct in her attempts to alert USA to at least one terrorist learning to fly and slaughter us.
Why no one was willing to act is not clear. Was it Jaime Gorelick's ACLU-approved edicts or bureaucratic density or turf wars or something else, nobody seems to know and those who might know are unwilling to step forward.
The mysteries of 9/11 now rival the mysteries of JFK's assassination.
I think I'll just watch the football game and try to forget about what might have been for a little while.
Thanks for your family's service.
Semper Fi!
Zolt
While there is merit to assigning dollar values and other cold statistics to the national ruin brought on by the Bush administration, they do not tell the essential story. The authors mention the Constitution once in their account of the devastation, but I believe it is to that document that irreparable damage has been done. One might argue that we may eventually recover from some of the terrible losses and deficits detailed in the article, but whether we can ever recover the rule of law and other founding principles is, in my view, doubtful. It is important to remember that much of the damage done by Cheney and Bush is still secret and remains to be exposed.
Dont let the door hit ya where the Good Lord Split ya!~ On second thought, let the door hit you in the head square on!
Jess
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- The wars...Iraq has been folly on an epic scale but Afganistan was a good move. If we had concentrated our efforts there on catching Bin Ladin I think we could have had a decent outcome.
- The economy - W. has not helped it but this problem has been coming for a LONG time. Ever since Republicans AND Dems started charging things on some imaginary national credit card for years back now and the public, Wall Street, and corporations bought into the idea of living in debt, WE DOOMED OURSELVES. The so called budget surplus of the 90's was nothing more than a facade.
- The environment - has been going to crap for a long time. Did W. speed it up some? Maybe...I dunno. Who cares anyways because we are screwed.
- Middle East - again has been crap for a long time. W. has done neither better or worse than any other U.S. president
Folks, America is deep in the shitter now. W. perhaps flushed us down faster than other folks would have done, but this was going to be coming anyway. Kiss America goodbye - the twilight of the Yankee empire is here.
I just realized that the referenced article is posted as News. While I was chuckling through it, I realized that it's not on the Opinion pages. I cannot imagine what confusion of thoughts might actually be there.
I think I'll take a look. But I'll keep a sick bag handy.
From an article in the online-only newspaper New York Times, published on January 1, 2090.
It’s hard to imagine this now, but while he was in office, George W. Bush was considered by many of his critics the worst United States President in history. The 44th US President, liberator of 60 million citizens in Iraq and Afghanistan, focal point of a unique dual-nation national holiday on Bush’s birthday, and the man responsible for the birth of democratic ideals which have now spread throughout the Middle and Near east, suffered abuse from critics in the media comparable only to that suffered by America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. Although their leadership styles where vastly different, and they were two very different kinds of men, they shared similar circumstances in that they presided over wars that were initially backed by large majorities of the American public who then turned upon them both with unprecedented savagery when the wars dragged on inconclusively for several years. Virtually alone, both men prosecuted their wars to ultimate victory, with enormous long-term successful consequences for all three nations.
Lincoln, of course, had much the harder job. The American Civil War ultimately cost the nation 650,000 lives, 2% of her population, an equivalent of 8 million lives today. The total American deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan stood at just over 5,000 at the close of major hostilities in 2009. It became public knowledge at the end of his term in office that Bush personally visited with the families of fully a quarter of the war’s fatalities, personally composed and signed letters of condolence to the families of each soldier lost, and quietly visited the wounded in military hospitals hundreds of times. This exacted an enormous emotional toll on the 44th president, and almost certainly contributed to his death of heart disease three years into the one term-presidency of his successor, Barack Obama.
The addition of Bush’s visage to that of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan is expected to be completed in time for the celebration of Bush’s 150th birthday on July 6th, 2096.
The Rapeublican party dressed him so smartly, rings on his fingers and bells on his toes. He strutted about in his finery, buying rugs, proclaiming that Social Security should be privatized, taxes need not apply to the wealthy, and everthing is fine, go shopping!
Then 911...
Fear everything!!! We had no idea they would attack the World Trade Center again! Osama who? Don't worry, go shopping, I'll attack Iraq and the oil will pay for it! Just have to borrow some money from China. Afghanistan? Where's that? No oil? Don't worry, go shopping! Osama who? Oh yeah, I'll get back to that.
"The fundamentals of the economy are still strong", go shopping. Buy some clothes like mine, they're cheap and don't need washing. They never wear out, are stain proof and pardonable.
Thanks George, but we will need the rings and bells back. The pawnshop will give us fifty bucks for them to keep the soup kitchen open.
You can keep the rest of your "clothes". Walking naked on the street will get you arrested. Well maybe not in D.C. or the gated communities in Dallas. I would however, advise that you put on some pants before clearing brush in Crawford.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
