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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 01:16 PM
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Bush Is the definition of FAILURE
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15594

Bush must admit error of his ways

Robert Scheer - Creators Syndicate


09.09.03 - How can the president tell us with a straight face that we taxpayers have a patriotic duty to cough up $87 billion more to enable him to sink us deeper into the Iraq quagmire of his making? That's a lot of money on top of the $79 billion already appropriated by Congress in April -- enough to bail out California and every other state experiencing a budget crisis because of economic problems this president has only exacerbated. Shouldn't those who warned against Bush's folly at least qualify for another one of his signature tax rebates?

Once again, Bush is using the Big Lie technique, continuing to slyly conflate those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, despite there being no evidence of such a relationship. It is an insult to those who died on that day of infamy to exploit them to defend a failed policy of preemptive war designed by a bunch of think tank neoconservatives as part of a cockamamie plan to remake the Middle East.

Perhaps the most galling aspect of Bush's consistently defensive speech, however, was his naked attempt to turn what has become a security disaster for U.S. troops, United Nations workers and the Iraqi people into a positive situation. He makes it seem like it is almost a good thing that terrorism is on the rise in Iraq because we've got our enemies where we want them. In claiming that "Iraq is now the central front" in the "war on terror," Bush is heralding a self-fulfilling prophecy: He claimed Iraq was a hotbed of terrorism, and he turned it into one.

And by the way, what happened to the cheering crowds and the gushing oil that the administration predicted would make this a low-cost Mideast liberation venture?
Meanwhile, as Bush boasts of how many irrelevant ammunition dumps we have seized in Iraq, the region is spiraling out of control. Afghanistan is once again falling into anarchy, with the Taliban on the rebound. The Israeli-Palestinian situation is worse after the fall of Hussein, not better as the administration promised. And the mysterious kingdom of Saudi Arabia remains a very suspicious kind of "friend." Let's remember, 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers, as well as Osama bin Laden himself, were Saudis.

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lebkuchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 01:32 PM
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1. This is how his Harvard yearbook described Bush:
"The only thing that goes down on him is his computer."
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 01:34 PM
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2. I know Hitler comparisons are not usually welcome here, but
it reminds me of something I read. Every time Hitler's armies suffered a huge setback by the Allies, Hitler would crow, "Now I have them where I want them !"
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 01:34 PM
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3. He's is a failure as a failure
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 01:40 PM
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4. He's a miserable failure !
:shrug:
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