Letters to the Editor
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Bush's next line:
"You can't trust the CIA! They thought there were WMDs in Iraq."
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Hey, Decider Guy!
If Bush and his boyfriends were serious about diplomatic engagement, they would bring Iran to the negotiating table and make them an offer, with some guarantees, and by so doing, the U.S. would have China, Russia and the Europeans standing at our side.
Instead, Bush continues to bloviate and move the goal posts. When the Decider Guy decided (after being told what to decide) that if the Iranians had the KNOWLEDGE to make a nuclear weapon, that was reason enough to keep them in the DANGER column, I knew the bushies weren't going to give up on getting their 3rd War on his watch.
It ain't over.
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Petulent Child
In terms of Irans lack of nuclear program, Bush is following the same script he has for everything his administration is exposed on.
Illegal wiretapping comes out and he responds with "F.U. I'm the president."
No WMD - "F.U. I'm the president."
Habeus Corpus - "F.U. I'm the president."
Torture - "F.U. I'm the president."
Plame Debacle - "F.U. I'm the president."
etc. etc.
Bush is primo example number one of poor leadership. His only leadership skill is based on his formal authority (he's the president of the USA and he's got lotsa and lotsa bombs). This is the most vacuous form of leadership - leadership based only on position or title. A true leader influences the world by convincing, connecting, and engaging people in a shared vision. Obviously Bush is not a vision guy, according to him he's a "decision" guy.
He's a fool with too much power - a petulent child with a petulent smirk.
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Well...
...If Congress hadn't forced him into invading Iraq, he'd be able to deal with the WMD threat in Iran. Saddam must have given them all of his weapons on his way to the gallows, along with his air force that was hidden in the desert. Or it was Syria. Or Pakistan.
Yep, the only way to insure that Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, or is making nuclear weapons, or a program to make nuclear weapons that they can restart, or the plans for nuclear weapons, or someone who knows how to make them, or might someday know how to make, or might someday think about wanting to make them, or might even someday think about them, is to turn Iran into a hellish chaos that requires a multi-generational, multi-trillion dollar, occupation that will ensure that the American way of life is never negotiable and future GOP presidents can enjoy their own Codpiece Day as part of their reelection strategy.
Ta ta, gotta go play tennis- on the moon.
/insanity
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sharpening
After reading this most interesting essay:
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/conservatism.html
I'm reminded of what happened to Cheney's and Bush's spiritual ancestors in the 1790s, in Paris.
Authoritarian aristocrats of all stripes, be they Stalinist, Maoist, Fascist, or Nazi, or Bourbon...or what have you...one signal quality of these people is a total contempt for the people they rule.
Bush is now demonstrating this utter contempt by simply acting as if the NIE didn't exist. He knows his opponents are fully aware he's lying his ass off. Which means his lies are intended for the ignorant, and the kool-aid crowd. Thus he shows his total contempt not for us...but for the very people who put him in power.
This kind of contempt is the most disturbing thing of all about these men, and most of the evil they have done, and will do, flows from their complete contempt for their subjects. And for just about anyone and everyone else, it seems.
In another time, we'd be sharpening up the guillotines.
Instead, these men will all go off to fat retirements, courtesy of a system that protects traitors all too well.
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When the truth and the lies no longer make a difference.
What is worse? A president who leaves office with a ten trillion dollar deficit, and a destroyed national infrastructure (and perhaps utterly shatter our economy)? Or a president who engages in an illegal war, shows utter contempt for the constitution and engages in war crimes?
Oops, my bad, he's done all of that.
My point being, it really doesn't matter whether he tells the truth or not at this point, whatever his thinking, whatever his actions, the result will be failure and catastrophe.
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The Choice
As with most of the statements by Bush on "controversial" topics, this boils down to a rather simple question: Is Bush lying, or is he simply incompetent? There really is no third option, and it's incredible that this man has been doing this for years, and yet is not held accountable.
Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post points out that Bush's rhetoric on Iran changed significantly between August 6 and 9, when he stopped talking about how we "know" Iran has nuclear weapons programs, to us "knowing" that Iran wanted to "get the knowledge" for nuclear weapons programs. (I suggest Google; I think Ahmadinejad uses AOL, having received 11 of their CDs in the mail.) This change in rhetoric allowed Bush to continue his anti-Iran fear-mongering with his mentions of "World War III," but allowed him to avoid stating things that were technically not false, a long-time Bush administration standby.
So it's up to Americans to decide: liar, or incompetent. And please remember that a lie of implication is still a lie; that's how we ended up in Iraq, after all.