Death of a Presidency

[struggle4progress]

by MICHAEL CARMICHAEL
OCT. 18, 2006 -- ...

In America, three out of four likely voters now believe that Bush has been overactive in policing the world—an astonishing statistic. That fact places Bush in a difficult political position. Now his presidency is seen as less effective in its core mission—national security—than his opponents, the Democrats. The Bush White House is tottering on its heels and threatening to collapse on its face ...

Bush’s presidential paralysis is more than readily apparent. Against his own strident diatribes, Bush has accepted the political reality of a nuclear North Korea. That he still opposes the enrichment of uranium in Tehran—like North Korea a charter member of Bush’s Axis of Evil—proves his reflexive xenophobia, for the obvious distinction between the two nations is that one is Communist East Asian and the other is a Muslim theocracy. Bush loathes both alien cultures, but he fears the alien religion of Islam more than he distrusts the godlessness of the Marxist regime of Kim Jong-Il. He is undone ...

As for the question of predicting what course of action this rogue regime will actually follow over the next three weeks until the fateful midterm elections—all bets are now clearly off. The weaker the Republicans become in the polls, the more likely they are to risk a reckless pre-election military intervention—either against North Korea or against Iran. The repercussions of either would be catastrophic. North Korea is now known to be capable of nuclear war, and Iran has tens of thousands of dedicated suicide bombers awaiting their orders to march if Bush and Cheney attack them. Internationally, it is now well known that Bush and Cheney are amassing a massive arsenal of Tomahawk missiles in the Persian Gulf—precisely the tactical instrument that they would need if they chose to strike North Korea—a target that is over 7,000 sea miles from where the US Strike Force led by the Nimitz Class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Eisenhower, is now headed ...

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/101906CARMICHAEL.shtml

[Demeter]

1. Baloney! North Korea Has No Oil

And that's the only difference that matters. Bush is the most unreligious man alive, despite his pretensions.

[marmar]

2. .... can't come soon enough!

This presidency has been nothing but a cancer on the planet.

[stonecoldsober]

3. Mr. Carmichael can sure turn a phrase!

:toast: :beer: