Letters to the Editor
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Answer to a question?
What a ramling pile of BS, from a hm,hm intelligent 9?0 person. Did he get applause for this crap?
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Unbelievable
Gibberish, strung together with meaningless, empty platitudes, fueled by bizarre claims that have no basis in reality. No matter what the question, he must respond with that same reference to September 11 and the vow that he purportedly made. What a pathetic fool to think that any of this nonsense will positively influence people.
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Black is white
Thanks for posting the text. It's easier to spot the lie that's in every paragraph that way. Should be useful in trying to bring Republican friends and families back to the reality-based community.
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It takes one to know one
Bush says that one of his strategies for fighting terrorism is to "spread freedom."
And a couple of sentences later he describes terrorism as "...a strategy by a totalitarian, ideologically based group of people who've announced their intentions to spread that ideology...."
Hmmm. Maybe that petulant smirk is his version of an ironic smile.
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Educator-in-Chief, Yeah, Right!
How could he stand there in front of all those people all of whom are his intellectual superiors and let that steaming BS dribble from his lips with a straight face? If I was paying all that tuition to attend JHU and I had to listen to that crap, I would demand a refund.
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On Purpose?
I think he intentionally tries to let the clock run out on a Q&A segment with a long rambling answer so he can limit the number of questions he has to take.
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The Pause that Refreshes
I know it's only Monday but my week wouldn't be complete without another healthy dose of the unintelligible, grammatically incorrect, ill-spoken gibberings that proceed from the mouth of our smirking imbecile Commander In Chief.
The real wonder is that a prestigious institution such as Johns Hopkins would even allow this moron to speak to their students. Most Harvard grads have better command of the English language than this.
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This Bush guy's a fuck'n idiot. I can't take anymore. Sorry for the vulgarity. That is all.
I must enter something in the letter body.
Consider the "Subject" field my entry.
theDocker
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Believable...
...as he is a fuckwit.
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lessons learned
God hates us...
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And yet, he is the President
The President of the United States of America. Think, I mean really think about it. The disjointed ramblings coming out of the mouth of GW Bush are not the pronouncements of some third world dictator or wanna be militia wingnut. This man has real power to affect real lives, including the ability to launch nuclear weapons (http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact).
Progressives have been screaming for the last 5 years to a tone deaf media that Bush is exactly as he appears to be. He is an individual who is functionally illiterate, with a substandard IQ but a high degree of charm and cunning. A Calvinistic theocrat afflicted with the Jerusalem Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_syndrome), who really believes that he is on a Holy mission to rid the world of “evil”, an never mind the consequences. What you see is what you get.
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BAAAAHAHAHAAA!!!
When did War Room start quoting Will Ferrell? Too funny. This one's my personal favorite:
http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=1147
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Lowest common denominator voter results
THis is what we get when educated people find it too much trouble to vote and the Cretin churches load every last parishoner on the buses and show up to vote 100%. I worked the polls in Orlando and watched the church buses and rented school buses pull up and disgorge the scrubbed shiny people with Laura Ingalls Wilder dresses and white arrow shirts with pocket protectors. They literally marched single file into the polls and voted from the church poll card.
As Kevin Phillips documents in American Theocracy, this 30% are vested in their hero GW's screwing up badly enough to bring on their Armageddon fantasy. In my family's Baptist church last Sunday in the midwest, the preacher promised it is just a matter of a few more months before the trigger (Iran?) is pulled and the War of Civilization breaks out leading ultimately to the (actual) golden staircase upon which Jesus will descend to bring the faithful back to heaven. That a third of Americans would believe this and buy the books that repopularized it, "Left Behind", written by a GOP dirty tricks operative deranged by the success of the gay liberation movement, when the same crackpot theory was debunked at its inception in the 1920's by organized religion, was explained by none other than Jimmmy Carter in his NYT opinion piece preceding the Iraq War where he blew the whistle on his own So. Baptist religion for pushing the Rapture scheme to advance far right social goals via the GOP.
So it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy as a mad President makes his last election gambit, probably to drive the fellow 30% deranged believers to the polls in November, similar to the way they used Iraq to win his reelection, but with much more cinematic nuclear Armageddon shock n awe .
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Another Former Marine Fed Up With Bush!
This month marks the 31st Anniversary of the fall of South Vietnam. As a former United States Marine who served with the 1st Marine Brigade's Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH-463), aboard the U.S.S. Hancock (CVA-19), during Operations Eagle Pull, and Frequent Wind, the evacuations of Phomn Phen, Cambodia and Saigon, South Vietnam in April 1975, I witnessed first hand the tragic consequences of a President who lead the United States into a war based on faulty intelligence. The lie President Johnson echoed in August 1964 regarding the North Vietnamese patrol boat attack on the U.S.S. Maddox convinced Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which permitted him to engage this nation in a war that resulted in the deaths of over 58,000 U.S. servicemen and women, an additional 300,000 WIA, and wasted over $116 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars. That President Johnson knew that the attack against the U.S.S. Maddox never occurred has been verified as recently as December 2, 2005 in an analysis of the event published in the National Security Agency's classified, Cryptologic Quarterly by NSA historian Robert J. Hanyok.
In October 2002, based on intelligence President Bush convinced Congress to pass Public Law 107-243, authorizing him to use force against Iraq to make Saddam comply with U.N. Resolutions that he disarm his nation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. This in spite of former Secretary of State James Baker's declaration on January 9, 1996 during a PBS Frontline interview that "He (Saddam), no longer has the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction, he no longer represents the threat to his neighbors that he did before." This assertion was essentially echoed by former U.S. Marine and top U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, who stated in a Time Magazine interview on September 14, 2002 that "I've said that no one has backed up any allegations that Iraq has reconstituted WMD capability with anything that remotely resembles substantive fact. To say that Saddam's doing it is in total disregard to the fact that if he gets caught he's a dead man and he knows it. We have tremendous capabilities to detect any effort by Iraq to obtain prohibited capability. The fact that no one has shown that he has acquired that capability doesn't necessarily translate into incompetence on the part of the intelligence community. It may mean that he hasn't done anything." These assertions were proved by the fact that no Weapons of Mass Destruction were found in Iraq, and by the conclusions of the CIA report released on October 7, 2004 that found Iraq's WMD program had been ended in 1991, and that it had ceased its nuclear program after the Gulf War, the same year. The United States weapons inspectors officially concluded their hunt for the Iraqi WMD on January 12, 2005.
That it stains the limits of credulity to believe that the President of the United States was not aware of these facts as declared in the aforementioned statements by both Baker and Ritter, is an understatement at best. For President Bush to believe that Iraq still had a Weapons of Mass Destruction and a Nuclear weapons program means that a bankrupt, third world country Iraq, a state that had lived under the harshest sanctions ever imposed on a nation in history was able to deceive the whole of the U.S. national technical means which we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars engineering, building, and operating over the last four decades including the spy satellites of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and the National Security Agencies (NSA), Project Echelon.
It is time for members of Congress to stop obfuscating and the Senate Intelligence Committee to complete their investigation into Iraqi pre-war intelligence in fully open and public hearings. This nation owes it to the 2,307 men and women of our armed forces who have been killed as well as the 17,000 who have been wounded in Iraq.