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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
completely irrational, completely corrupt, completely hypocritical and completely illegal impeachment and attempted removal from office of Clinton over a blow job and the fact that no one, not the complicit media and not the Republican party, was ever held accountable for it. The fact that in an equivalently corrupt and illegal manner Bush was installed in office in 2000 just confirmed what was already evident.
You said... "I'm not sure how anyone could run for president and be "unprepared" for war. The job includes the title of commander in chief of the armed forces." As Glenn Greenwald has pointed out, the role of CINC is really a wartime, not peacetime, thing. Also, I don't believe that any of our presidents were "prepared" for war other than maybe someone like Eisenhower or Jackson or one of the other presidents who had command experience during wartime. Certainly, Shrub was unprepared for war. Unfortunately, he was all too prepared to start them. But my objection is that I don't think a presidential aspirant should be "prepared" for war. I would hope to God that he would be so unprepared that war would be the last option that he or she considered.
My other objection is the amount of credence give the quote intelligence failures end quote. Within days of hearing the rants about WMDs from the Shrubbites, I wrote my congressmen. I asked the question: Why should I care if Saddam Hussein has WMDs? He has no blue water navy, no intercontinental air force, no ICBMs. In short, he couldn't get a purported WMD over here to attack us if he wanted to. So why should I worry? Well, I needn't. It never was about protecting the United States but it was all about protecting Israel. And I object to that, too. Last I checked, Israel isn't the 51st state.
What a silly waste of time. Any idiot knows you can't shame the shameless. You can't apply the rules of mercy to sociopaths. You can't force people to pay attention to you when their overweening sin is that they simply don't give a fuck whether you live or die.
We get it, everyone gets it. He's a craven dolt. He sleeps the sleep, if not the just, the indifferent. To follow on what Kanye West said, it's not that George Bush doesn't care (about black people), it's that it never enters his mind that there ARE people out there needing his or anyone's concern at all. And least of all, he's worrying what you think.
Say what you want about Nixon, he at least was paranoid about what he THOUGHT other people were plotting. Bush I doubt even sees any of you as life forms.
The Man Who Casts No Shadow.
The tooliest president EVER. And Cheney rubs his hands together and walks away.
Most rational people looking at the surface of the Iraq war and, indeed, the Bush presidency as a whole would come to conclusion that both have been nothing short of catastrophic. I genuinely believe that this war has been about nothing other than money. Ask the CEO of Lockheed Martin if the Iraq war has been a failure. Ask the CEO of Blackwater if the Iraq war has been a failure. Ask the richest one percent of Americans if they believe the Bush presidency has been a failure. The abject cretin that Americans were dumb enough to elect to the highest office in the land accomplished EXACTLY what he and his dispicable cronies set out to do: Make the richest few that much richer. Bush got elected by convincing people that even though he was the billionaire SON OF A PRESIDENT he was just a down home country boy from Texas. Now, he's slinking out of the office and selling himself as a pitiable doofus who got in way over his head. Far from it; they did EXACTLY what they set out to do. They're not incompetent, they're greedy and corrupt to the point of obscenity.
But the American people
Teamin' legions of duped fools...
as America is covered in blood. The only thing that will ever wash that off will be true remorse. America might eventually achieve that, Bush, I truly believe, never will.
Shame on you, George Bush, for all the grief you have caused and all the blood you've spilled. You will always be a pathological liar, even to yourself.
The fact that you didn't call Mr. Bush and his administration out-and-out liars is too kind, Joan. After all, Ari Fleischer on January 9th, 2003, made a statement that they (Bush Administration) knew for a fact that Iraq had WMD.
I guess for the Bush administration the difference between fact and fiction is nothing.
Reporters, talking heads, newspaper editors, owners of media companies, and newsroom editors are all trying to forget that they force fed us the Iraq invasion. They hyped the WMD bullshit, they demonized Muhammed al-baradei and the rest of the weapons inspectors. Bush and company all but accused them of colluding with Saddam Hussein and the media pushed that line. The media gleefully broadcast the "shock and awe" air campaign. They showed the public all the cool technology we had, never mind that there were people on the ground who were having 5000 pound bombs delivered to their homes courtesy of our tax dollars. What about how the media gleefully and breathlessly replayed that ridiculous "Mission Accomplished" stunt? I never saw such an undignified display as I did when television anchors were cooing over it.
We saw all color of grotesque behavior, and the media's behavior was up there with the worst. They fired and banished anyone who would not tow the line and stop asking questions. Dan Rather, one of the most respected journalists, was fired out of hand for refusing to kiss the Bush Administration's ass.
What about the media not saying boo about the blackout? They were denied access to the coffins on the military planes being flown back to the states. They were kept on a short leash and only allowed to report what the Bushies let them. What about the public's right to know?
Joan, the next time you are on Hardball, why don't you take Chris Matthews to task on the following statements.
1. "There are some things you can't fake. Either you can throw a strike from sixty feet or you can't. Either you can rise to the occasion on the mound at Yankee Stadium with 56,000 people watching or you can't. On Tuesday night, George W. Bush hit the strike zone in the House that Ruth Built.... This is about knowing what to do at the moment you have to do it--and then doing it. It's about that 'grace under pressure' that Hemingway gave as his very definition of courage."
2. "He looks great in a military uniform. He looks great in that cowboy costume he wears when he goes West We're proud of our President. Americans love having a guy as President, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton.... Women like a guy who's President. Check it out."
3. "Everybody sort of likes the President, except for the real whack-jobs."
Chris Matthews and other media talking heads have bad memories. They like to pile on now and get on the right side of history.
I know I am known here as an Obama basher. I admit to it. But, the lessons we should learn from the past eight years is that breathless admiration for a president does a disservice to us all. Chris Matthews, once again, is emblematic of the problem. He said that he was going to do all he could to help the Obama administration "succeed." It is not the job of the media to selectively present news so that it presents the president in the most positive light.
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
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