Letters to the Editor
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Sidney, you sly dog you....
You could've based this entire article on its last sentence. But you were right to end it there given the gravity of the situation.
Will the President, or will the President not finally mature though and stop trying to drag this country through the most reactionary fantasy since seccession is definetly what we all should be focused on.
He probably will. But I hope people keep in mind his motivation for doing so is to stop what would otherwise be his ultimate impeachment!
Thanks for your hard work Mr. B...great job!
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The Road OUT of Baghdad
"Now near unanimity exists on Baker's commission to reverse that formula, advisory panel members have told me. The central part of a new policy must be, they believe, that the road to Baghdad leads through Jerusalem. Brent Scowcroft, the elder Bush's former national security advisor, who is very close to Baker, spelled out the notion that security and stability in the region, including Iraq, can only be achieved by reestablishing the Middle East peace process..."
Restarting the Middle East peace process is always a good idea but It isn't going to solve our present problems in Iraq anytime soon.
The Arab-Israeli conflict has gone on for over a half-century. It isn't going to be resolved anytime soon and certainly not by anybody with the diplomatic skills of George W. Bush.
All by itself, the Bush Administration's support of Israel no-matter-what already disqualifies them as any sort of honest broker.
Even if, by some miracle, Bush were to work out an Israeli-Palestinian settlement, that won't change the fact that we have troops in Iraq and the determination of a lot of Iraqis and others to make their stay unpleasant.
Hopefully, the Iraq Study Group will give us something better. Even then, do we have any reason to believe that Bush would change his present course?
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Hitman Baker: the good guy?
you can tell how far into hell we've decended when we look to the consigliere of the Carlyle Group as the lone freakin' ranger. Jeez. And Ed Meese, fer krissakes, he of the "they wouldn't arrest them if they weren't guilty" theory of American jurisprudence. What a pack of jackals. Any road they choose is wrong; we turned that corner when the coup was installed six years ago. we need a purge, a democratic enema, a faustian firehose up the presidential poopchute.
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The wisdom of his father and father's men ?
Has everyone forgotten what a bunch of clueless goons the first Bush administration was composed of ?
They might *seem* wise compared to Dubya, but so would any random selection from a lunatic asylum.
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Shakespeare or Wagner
I'll bet on Wagnerian. That way Junior gets to take a whole lot of people down with him, instead of just a few; mediocrity, like misery, loves company.
Besides, rat or not, I just don't see Jim Baker as Polonius.
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missed one at the end there Sidney
"His choice is either Shakespearean or Wagnerian."
"Freudian" would fit in there as well.
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Dad's Boy
Perhaps Jr Bush needs a Road to Damascus experiece to finally understand what it takes to be President of The USA and hold the most powerful office in the world and how to use it correctly.
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It's already settled
"In the event that Baker actually advocates what he thinks, Bush's options will be to admit the errors of his ways and the wisdom of his father and father's men or to cast them and caution aside once again. His choice is either Shakespearean or Wagnerian."
Bush II doesn't have any options. He never did; he was just the puppet of Cheney. And now Cheney has been replaced by the new puppet master, Bush I acting through his loyal anconcierge Baker.
Puppet master Cheney would never have replaced Dumbsfeld, especially by Gates of all people. And he would never have done it in such an acutely embarrassing manner to himself, Dumbsfeld and Bush I; the day after the election and only days after the puppet had publicly announced that both Dumbsfeld and Cheney would be staying on for the rest of his term. He would have had at least a week or so face saving interval, then saying that Dumbsfeld was leaving for health reasons or something.
If there are any doubts, consider the uncharacteristic total silence of Cheney, and his going hunting on the day before the election. Surely he had campaign visits scheduled. He'll probably remain for the rest of Junior's term but will be made irrelevant.
There are many things to be said about the Baker Gang, but bad as they might be they will have to be far better than what they're replacing. Whether they can salvage anything from the Iraq fiasco is an open question. Perhaps it will only amount to the Carlyle Group profiting from it rather than Haliburton.
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Sonny
Once again, Sidney writes a spectacular analysis of the
true pathology that underlies Bush's behavior on Iraq.
Thank God Poppy has tried to rein in his boy...but his success
has been faulty, no doubt due to some Oedipal drama Dubyah
is trying to unravel in his head. The neocons are acting like
rebellious youth who try to get the good kid to act up and not
be Daddy's or Mommy's boy (and with a Mother as frightening as Barbara, we won't go there!). The consequences of their egging on
Bush's rebellion is of course the ruin of Iraq, Afghanistan and the
killing of thousands of lives...bravo, Sidney...keep up the wonderful
work!
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Sonny gearing up again
Now we have new reports that Sonny is considering one last push of 20,000 more troops and a whole lot more money.
He hasn't listened and he hasn't learned a thing.
And to everyone's peril not even Baker may be able to rescue the fool.
W must really hate his old man or have severe penis envy.
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Character is action.
Character determines how one acts in a historical context, or as F. Scott Fitsgerald observed in a note to himself on the last page of his unfinished masterpiece, The Last Tycoon: "Character is action."
Those are fateful words when the destiny of a nation hangs in the balance, as it does with the foreign policy debacle of the war in Iraq. Sidney wants to see a light at the end of the tunnel with the intervention of James Baker into the national debate. But we passed the point of no return long ago, despite the denunciation of the American electorate in the recent midterm elections. The results merely slowed our progress toward the edge. He will not listen to reason, because he has not listened to reason in the past. This is his character despite his recent statements to the contrary to work with the new majority in both houses. He is Prince Hal as a dry drunk, and we are the Weimar Republic.