I've got your waterboard right here - bush, torture, power & threats

[Karmageddon]

I've got your waterboard right here
1/04/2006 12:41:00 PM

http://www.dubyad40.com/html/wally/wally.shtml


When bush said he wanted to be dictator, people laughed and thought he was 1) joking or 2) an idiot. They never counted on the third - that he was serious, and seriously insane. Once again, he's taking steps to ignore the law and the Constitutionally imposed checks and balances and bypass the new torture ban imposed by Congress. After threatening to veto it, and having Congress tell him to fuck off, he signed it strictly in order to avoid humiliation and defeat. (By the way, we were SO hoping he would do it. Go ahead chimp-boy, make the ONLY veto of your 2 term career be 1) vetoing a defense spending bill and 2) vetoing it solely because it says you can no longer torture people. How appropriate and representative of him would that be?) Now that he was forced to sign it into law, he's trying to weasel around it by saying he'll obey the law depending on how he interprets it at the time. In other words, he'll obey it as long as it's convenient for him to obey it. As soon as he gets in the mood for a little of his more kinky fun, he'll be dressing in leather with a riding crop, some electrical appliances, and a waterboard, and sashaying off to Gitmo for a little gay S&M action, just the way he likes it.

This is a man who is convinced he is above the law. He has never been held accountable for anything his entire life, from barely passing college (passing because of who he is, not because he actually studied or learned anything), to getting out of Nam by using his daddy to get into the Air Nat'l Guard, and then deserting, to bankrupting several oil companies in Texas (how much of a fuckup do you have to be to make THAT happen?). Now he's the prez, and has taken his lack of accountability and responsibilty to new levels. He thinks he's king. Laws don't apply to him. Like his pal tom delay, he IS the law. This has become especially true since 9/11. He can do anything he wants, now that he has 9/11 and the war on terrah as an excuse for it. There are no longer any boundaries to his power. He's a war president, don'tcha know.

Ignore the fact that 9/11 happened because he messed up and ignored all the warnings he was given. Ignore the fact that he's only a war president because he wanted his war. He needed his war. He HAD to have his war, and would do anything, including lying blatantly to Congress and the American people so that he could play with his planes and ships and tanks and blow stuff up and make big loud "BOOM" noises and pretty explosions, just like on 4th of July (do you think maybe his mom wouldn't let him play with fireworks when he was a kid and now he's making up for it?). Now he has his 9/11, and his war on terror, and in his little tiny one-dimensional mind, nothing else is going on in the world, and nothing else matters. Fuck the Constitution. It's just a goddamn peice of paper. Fuck the Bill of Rights. Fuck the American people. And especially, fuck the rest of the world. He will do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, wherever he wants, to whoever he wants to do it, because HE IS KING!!! He will do it, and he will blame it on the terrorists, never realizing that HE is the biggest terrorist of them all, destroying entire nations, shocking and aweing cities of civilians - like the fire bombing of Dresden or the bombs over Japan - except that Germany and Japan had attacked us and declared war on us. Iraq never did so. But george had his 9/11, his war on terror, his crown, and his hardon for war, and by god he was going to get his way.

He's also got a lot of pals in the energy industry and weapons industry to take care of. The Iraq invasion fits very nicely into that little arrangement. And of course, in that vein, he also has Darth Cheney to answer to (you just know that little georgie craps himself whenever unca dick snarls at him). Which leads me to my next point.

While reading this (It's official: last year was hottest ever) it once again struck me that anyone who's paying attention knows that climate change is WAY more of a threat than terrorism. When the glaciers melt on Greenland alone, it will raise sea levels by 6.5 meters. That's over 21 feet boys and girls. And we're not even talking about Antarctica's ice sheets yet. Melting all of them could lead to a sea level rise of 80 meters (264 feet). see this

With freshening water (ice caps melt as fresh water, not salt water), the ocean circulation patterns (i.e. Gulf Stream) will slow or even stop. This will cause equatorial waters to warm, firing up stronger and more frequent hurricanes, making the 2005 storm season the norm, not the exception. Add in the higher sea levels to begin with and, well, all you people in coastal cities might want to keep those plywood sheets that you put over your windows handy. Maybe sell off the big-screen (or a couple of your kids) and buy yourself a boat.

Clyde, Dookie and I will be safe (from flooding at least) here in Kansas City, but if you thought Katrina was a bitch, just wait until Ma Nature gets REALLY pissed off. New York, Amsterdam, Venice, much of Florida, Houston, Bangladesh.... damn.

A dirty bomb or a couple of hijacked planes is nothing compared to that. But climate change is a complex and multi-faceted issue, difficult to understand and even more difficult to resolve. It will take an enormous, cooperative, concerted, international effort. bush is completely incapable of that kind of thing. It involves complex, nuanced thought. It involves compromise. It involves acknowledging that you can't always have your way. It involves difficult and painful choices. It involves sacrifice. This is an issue that he can't bomb or torture his way out of. That's why he's not interested.

Waterboard my ass? Bring your surfboard.


(reprinted in full with permission)

[rwork]

1. WaterBoard bush*

I like it. It might stick. The arrogance is unbelieveable. Do the photo-op with McCain, then go around the law.