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TheTruthBeKnown Donating Member (23 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 11:39 PM
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GW BUSH, 21st CENTURY NERO
GW BUSH, 21st CENTURY NERO
by Larry S. Rolirad

What would you do in a crisis situation? What if you were aboard a plane that crashed on takeoff? Would you just sit in your seat reading a children's book while the plane was burning and people needed help?

What if you were in your living room watching cartoons with your young children and a neighbor came to your door yelling your older child is drowning in your backyard pool? Would you just sit there with your young children for seven minutes so you wouldn't scare them and allow your other child to drown?

Imagine yourself as a platoon leader in a combat zone with enemy soldiers starting to advance on your position. Would you just sit in your foxhole reading letters from home and ignoring all of the men in your platoon while the enemy overtook you?

And finally, what if you were the president of the United States sitting in a classroom full of young kids looking at a children's color book and were told a second plane had crashed into the second World Trade Center building in New York? Remember, that you were already told that there had already been an aircraft that crashed into the first WTC building. Would you just sit on your stool looking dumbfounded and glance at a child's book for seven long minutes? This really happened and is well documented in Michael Moore's film, Fahrenheit 9/11.

It is obvious that GW Bush doesn't have one smidgen of leadership ability. He has never exhibited any leadership capabilities at any time during his entire life and I challenge any reader to cite even one instance in Bush's life where he has demonstrated any leadership abilities at all. By the way, being the first to chugalug a bottle of booze in a Houston nightclub is not a sign of leadership.

Bush's sitting on a stool in a Florida classroom doing nothing for seven minutes during a national crisis was the most damning indictment against him for his complete lack of competence as president of the United States, or any position of leadership. Even after Andrew Card walked into the classroom and told Bush that a second aircraft had hit the second WTC building, Bush did absolutely nothing for seven long, excruciating minutes. It is obvious that Bush has to have someone to tell him what to do and what to say. He is just a puppet with his strings being pulled by those who bought his political offices for him. In a rare unfiltered situation, Bush certainly demonstrated that he was definitely no leader. Bush certainly took no initiative. He certainly did not act as a president, or any leader, should.

Like Bush, the ancient Roman emperor Nero is also said to have been indifferent to catastrophe. While Rome burned, Nero played a violin while watching the flames. Like Bush, Nero took no action to stop Rome from being destroyed. Bush certainly walks in the same footsteps of the very cruel emperor Nero, who was so cruel he had his wife and mother killed. Nero also kicked his mistress to death while she was pregnant.

Bush is obviously unfit for the office he holds. There can be no excuses for Bush's complete lack of action during the biggest attack against the United States since Pearl Harbor. It is time for George W. Bush to resign from the presidency. He is a national embarrassment.
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mw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 12:32 AM
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1. GW BUSH, 21st CENTURY ZERO
Better title. :D
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 12:36 AM
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2. Yes, Nero is a good choice.
But I personally think Caligula is a good choice. Otherwise, I agree with your assessment 100%.

How on earth did this happen? I sometimes find myself just amazed at what's happened in this country, and I ask myself, "how can this be happening? It's just a bad dream, right?".

And no, it's not a bad dream.

Now here's what's even worse: not everybody thinks it's a bad dream. Some people actually think everything's OK. That's by far the worst part. We're not sharing this nightmare together.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 01:03 AM
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3. It happened cause Murphy said it can. When we set ourselves up with weak
systems, we reap its rewards/results.

The weak system is the one in play now.

Cause the Bush guys stifle dissent.opposition.differing views, they only use their views/solutions/decisions. This leads to poor odds for success.

George is a man with poor odds for success. The equation shows math is NOT on his side. To argue is Delusional. Math always wins.
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xocolatl Donating Member (196 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-11-04 10:08 AM
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4. OK, this reminds me of a "Bush = Antichrist" article I read...
Very very :tinfoilhat:, but entertaining nonetheless:

Nero was but a foreshadowing of the antichrist to come, George W. Bush

FYI, most non-evangelical biblical scholars believe that the "antichrist" referred to in Revelations was actually Nero.
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Torgo4 Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-11-04 02:42 PM
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5. C'Mon...Just A Little Fact Checking Pleeeeez...
<While Rome burned, Nero played a violin while watching the flames. Like Bush, Nero took no action to stop Rome from being destroyed. >

Unfortunately, the violin hadn't been invented yet.
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