failed ideologues who believe they are enlightened masters of the universe

[kentuck]

From Buzzflash

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/07/edi05056.html

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Then again, there's a biographical history at work here: this has been the pattern of George Bush's life. He fails, gets into a jam, and then expects everyone else to bail him out, which his father's friends did again and again in George's checkered business career. (Even with all the "assistance," he only really made big money when some of daddy's friends "rented" his name as GM of the Texas Rangers and used eminent domain to seize property adjacent to a new stadium, which allowed George to profit handsomely from a job that consisted largely of being a greeter and autograph signer at baseball games.)

But if the strategy to "tough out" the Iraq blunder is based on the ludicrous presumption that there are a fixed number of terrorists, and, therefore, you can drain the swamp, we are doomed. The reality, even according to some of Bush's intelligence officers, is that the Iraq war is motivating a new generation of terrorists. In short, Bush is in the business of creating terrorism through "the blunderbuss approach."

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The White House has gotten away with so much gibberish in their efforts to justify their failures in fighting terrorism that you wouldn't let a toddler off without a punishment for such balderdash. On Iraq alone, Bush used multiple successive reasons to justify the disastrous invasion, including WMDs (that didn't exist), regime change, democratization and the latest crazed "flypaper" strategy. And that's just to name a few. As each one is proven flawed, Rove writes up a new excuse for Bush, and the press transcribes it for the masses.

It would be laughable, except having the Keystone Cops in charge of protecting us threatens our lives, the lives of our family members, and our national security. Even if Bush were successful in halting terrorism, which he's not been, he is letting Osama bin Laden (who he promised to get "dead or alive" in a macho moment -- and failed at that, too) bankrupt our country, which makes for a terrorist victory of another kind.

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[Radio_Lady]

1. Excellent article, kentuck -- thanks for the link! n/t

[tubbacheez]

2. Choice wording. Kick. nt

[jobycom]

3. What's the "flypaper" strategy?

I missed that somewhere along the way.

[kentuck]

4. It will attract all the terrorists to one place....Iraq...

so we can kill them...

[patrice]

5. as they kill Iraqis, who should defend themselves.

[jobycom]

6. Did BushCo actually say this?

If so, that's horrendous. So we destroy millions of lives so we won't have to disrupt our own very much?

Fuck anyone who attacks me for calling Bush Hitler, then.