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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Hitler would have said these sorts of things. Kaiser Wilhelm actually did survive World War One. He retired to a farm in Belgium or Holland. And he said silly stuff such as this. You could look it up.
What on earth could possibly give you the idea that these people are "Journalists"?
If they are, People Magazine and the Weekly World News must be up to their eyeballs in Pulitzers.
I can almost see him now near the Harvard Business School intersection, where commuters roll up their car windows to avoid the pan-handlers securing supposed donations for the Gulf-War blind. No doubt Harvard Business School alumni relations will send fodder into the traffic to protect GWB's academic credentials, but why would they let it come to this? It looks like "intelligence failure" was happening long before the Delusionist decider ever set foot in oval office
And we know what actually happened. I see too many posters here who want to turn this into "History" already, tacking their pet theories onto the events.
G.W. Bush utterly failed, and he utterly failed us. Even in Afghanistan, where he initially succeeded in a good cause, now he has failed. And everything he says is obvious baloney. No need to look for a deeper meaning. We are the witnesses to history. Future historians will judge him by what we write.
Have we learned any lessons at all. I can't say that I believe that at all. The Bush interview was instructive. As a nation, he is what we see when we look in the mirror.
You think we could actually let Obama take office first before we actually decide?
Why do so many people think that Obama has been president and implemented policy when he hasn't even been sworn in?
psychlist: "All in all, a very large portion of major political figures around the world believed that Iraq had WMD programs."
Not really. And it does not matter what anybody "believed." It matters what people had hard evidence for. And nobody had hard evidence that Hussein had significant amounts of WMD, and more importantly, that he had the will to use them.
Anybody remember the British reports that Hussein had capacity to drop biological agents from remote-controlled planes, or that he had armed missiles with WMD that could reach the UK within 45 minutes of launch? I do. All B.S., of course. It also turned out that the main report upon which Tony Blair had based his pro-war stance was plagiarized from a years-old grad student's masters thesis.
Let's also not forget that the so-called "Coalition of the Willing" consisted of a handful of first-world countries followed by a dozen or two countries who were basically bought off (as well as fast-tracked for favorable trade deals, etc.) so they'd add their names to the list. Several of those countries asked to have their names taken off the list, and were denied the right to do so by the U.S.
Pull the wool out of your own eyes. The Iraq war was a done deal long before anybody decided to claim Saddam Hussein had WMD. They didn't care if he had WMD, they just wanted to sell WMD as the reason to a gullible, fearful public.
Why are we even discussing that Bush was 'woefully unprepared' for the Iraq War? Of course he was, that isn't the POINT.
Does resource-stealing--a neo-colonialist, imperialistic, bloodthirsty power grab--deserve weighing on the merits of its preparation?
Even if it were 'well prepared' for, or would Bush be a good president if he had prepared well for it???
Would y'all just be happy if we were 'winning' this 'war'?
People are just way too tied to the tribal warfare of our ancestral past to see how not only immoral it is, but how SELF-DEFEATING it is.
Not only are there thousands upon thousands of dead, and many thousands more immiserated, we've bankrupted the war chest (and partially our nation, the bailouts will do the rest) to make a few oil barons wealthy...
When we could have produced for every single homeowner in the U.S. their own solar system for the same money, and invested in Iraq enough--ethically, and without imperialistic power grabs--to help make them an authentically, economically democratic nation, Saddam Hussein be damned.
That's the 'opportunity cost' we're dealing with.
"What a loser" is right on the money.
Bush and his team of con men have counted on all along that they could slip little falsehoods past everyone, cut deals on the truth, get the benefit of the doubt, catapult the propaganda, etc.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
he had plenty of supporters...so are we still at war with ourselves, or has Obama just magically made all that disappear?
is not that he lies. That is to be expected.
It is the simple fact that, after failing in every single way possible as a president, as an administration, as a political philosophy, including, but not limited to:
Ignoring warnings about the impending Al Quaida attack of 9/11
Falsifying evidence to justify the Iraq invasion
Outing a top intelligence agent
The abysmal and horrific failure of the Iraq war
The gutting of the Bill of Rights
Torture
Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans
The collapse of our economy (threatening the global economy as well)
After all that ... and there is so much more ...
after all that ... this weak and puny, intellectually inferior, cowardly (as are all the chicken hawks) little ex-cheerleader rich-kid deserter somehow makes it all about HIM:
"I'm proud I didn't sell my soul for politics."
This tells us everything we have ever needed to know about George Bush, and the forces and interests he represents.
Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Could it be that W really doesn't know what most of know? That is, that the intelligence was cherry picked by Cheney. If in fact, Cheney and Rummy spoon fed W only what they wanted him to know, and this narrow minded, blinders-on, intellectually lazy, in bed by 9:00 president really never saw, heard, or paid attention to anything that contradicted his narrow world view? It is so typical of the born-again mentality that facts are ignored, and that which goes against what you believe need not be given audience.
Could this be the case?
I think the only other alternative is that the man is pure-evil.
Either way. A sorry chapter in our history comes to an end.
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
