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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Someday in the not too distant future, your man, President Obama, will say something similar to what President Bush said. In fact, there is a fine line between fudging and whining! The smoke signals are there now. All one must do is look and listen!
President Bush reacted to reports of what would be done with the weapons of mass destruction known to have been available and not previously used. The fact that the media insisted on knowlege of where we were going to look allowed the removal prior to inspection MAY explain why none were found. But the "War on Terrorists" was successful in ending more than twenty years of car bombs in Ireland. Only after Bush declared the war over, we had accomplished the United Nations Mandate, did we begin takeing casualties Only after the media changed the rules of engagement did we find ourselves in the roll of policeman without authority. Even when media personnel were taken we were careful to explain the fault was that we were not providing enough food, ammunition and money to aid the people we had aided against their wishes. Every terrorist has a goal-- and a timetable. The media aids in setting a timetable and selectively choosing what it considers progress--without any responsibility for its actions. The President should not have changed the Rules Of Engagement until after the terrorists had been contained and acts of terrorism punished -- For the media to blame him for not stopping the suicide bombers or car bombs shows the bias of the media. Getting out of Iraq sounds great but lets take all of our money and equipment with us and collect the war debt owed when we leave. We can use it at home in Texas,Louisiana,and New York.
relp27: "Someday in the not too distant future, your man, President Obama, will say something similar to what President Bush said. In fact, there is a fine line between fudging and whining! The smoke signals are there now. All one must do is look and listen!"
If you have nothing intelligent to say, maybe you shouldn't say anything at all.
Bush will be remembered
As the great rock Iraq
Invasion
Destabler
But millions and millions
Of Americans
Were his willin' and
Witless
Fool flag wavin'
Enablers..
You know who you were then
And you know now today who you really are
Iraq wasn't
And IS NOT
A fuckin' fool football game
That you watch with your good 'ol drinkin' buddies
Down at the good 'ol trusty
Local sports bar
It's not a vibrant video game
That your kids compulsively play
Till their sunken/shrunken eye balls
Start to cross
The lessons to this date
Learned
If any
Will be
By tommorow
Be completely lost...
I can't disagree with you on the Kurds. What we did to them is unforgivable. But, it begs the question - if we'd acted militarily then, would that have been acceptable?
I think the Kurds are now much better off as a result of our invasion and removal of Saddam.
I have to ask, do you think, given what you've said about Saudi Arabia, that we should have acted militarily against them? If not, what actions would you have taken against them?
To me, Saudi Arabia is too tied into the global economy to both disrupt through military action but also to remain as it is long term. I think the problems they represent get changed over time through basic economics and demographic shifts.
Everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE, sells their soul in politics - especially to get into the White House! And that includes the next resident-elect too.
Bush is a pathological ass - that's why he was such as easy mark for Rove and the rest of the war hog neo-cons. They knew the guy was shallow, uninterested in anything except being a big shot with the biggest guns. "A red ass in a hurry," is how they described him back in Texas.
Bush always took the easy way out and let others clean up his messes for him. He never took responsibility for a damn thing. Why would a gig in the White House be any different?
The guy's an ass, pure and simple. And we shall always at first laugh, and then shake our heads still with anger, at how badly he damaged our country. Bush's legacy is this: One person actually can mess up an entire lifetime.
Bush has to be the worst advertisment for the results or quality of a Harvard MBA -- doesn't take a rocket scientist to anticipate a President might have to deal with a war. I'm wondering if his half-hearted mea culpas don't have to do with the lack of interest in an autobiography so he's trying to give the impression there's actually some thought or regret for his past actions - which we know isn't the case since he's admitted before he has not trouble sleeping at night!
Let's rephrase that - Bush SHOULD have said -- "I was unprepared..." which says everything. Does anyone else remember the GOP going to TX, hat in hand and with $54 million, and begging Gov Bush to run for president? Or was that another delusional moment? Considering how fast the GOP was running AWAY from Bush the past year, isn't it interesting how their HAND PICKED guy, screwed them royally, and with no kiss!
I heard a bit of that pathetic interview as a clip on another program, and changed channels. I can live forever without hearing how Rove and Bush are doing their revisionist history. They will both be in for a big surprise. Historians will eventually have to locate and explain just which rock they both crawled out from under.
Actually I would have acted economically against the Saudi's long ago. Had Pres Clinton and the Republicans in the 90's had invested in alternative fuels (natural gas for one, which can power automobiles, funded focus fusion, funded cars that were fuel efficient like the care I owned in 1987 that got 55 miles to the gallon), but they did not. Had we implemented the plans in the 1970's to explore and fund alternate energies, perhaps this would not have happened at all. But in the 1990's oil was cheap again, so why would our government officials do anything differently, I mean they got tons of money from Oil companies right! I would have embargoed Saudi oil products immediately, I would have sued them in international courts, start a war, probably not. I would have pushed legislation making it illegal for American companies to do business in Saudi Arabia. Do you know anything about Saudi Arabia? The royal family and Saudi's themselves barely work they hire folks from places like the Philippines trap them in Saudi Arabia and use them as slaves. We certainly could have seen this coming they've been holding fund raisers for terrorists for more than 20 years. We would stop selling the Saudi military ANYTHING. They can fund these things because of our addiction to oil. The continue to fund terrorism. They continue to work against the US. They continue to be some of the worst offenders of human rights and we do nothing because they have oil.
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.
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