http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/April/1%20o/Something%20Evil%20This%20Wa%20Oh%20No,%20It's%20Here%20By%20Jack%20Dalton.htmBy Jack Dalton
Al-Jazeerah, April 1, 2004
“I’m the commander--see, I don’t have to explain—I don’t need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don’t feel like I owe anybody an explanation.” (George W. Bush—Washington Post, 11-19-2002)
By March of 2001, the Bush cabals power grab was more than evident to those paying attention. Who can forget Bush telling us, “
here ought to be limits to freedom,” or his would be much easier if this were a dictatorship, as long as I was the dictator” (Business Week OnLine, 7-30-01; Newsday, 12-18-00), and then there was, “I just don’t understand how poor people think” (NY Times, 8-26-03). What does he mean by those statements? We’ll never know (Ha!) as he doesn’t “feel like I owe anybody an explanation.” Out of the mouth will always come what is in one’s heart!
On March 25, 2001, the Washington Post ran an article which quoted White House officials as saying, “President Bush is “quietly” building the most conservative administration in modern times, surpassing even Ronald Reagan in the ideological commitment of his appointments.”
To call what Bush has put together merely as “conservative” is a gross misuse of the term and an insult to true conservatives. The methodology “King George” utilizes to insure “installation” of his “appointees,” as well as who they are, should be triggering alarms from one end of the country to the other, which is something I do not see taking place anywhere near enough. Coercion, intimidation, and “midnight” executive orders are the methods, with ultra-right wing, political ideologues being the recipients of those appointments. John Negroponte, Elliott Abrams, Otto Juan Reich of Iran/Contra infamy just to mention three, (see http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/republicanrule/profiles.html#reich for profiles on these three and others).
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