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Edited on Wed Oct-18-06 04:30 PM by freedomchips
I'm on the verge of having a story published that's set in the context of a teacher discussing with his adult students how to undo all of Bush's support. Most of the students are portrayed by comedians so it has a lot of humor to it despite how infuriating it is. Hopefully the following excerpts will intrigue you enough to check it out: http://www.geocities.com/clarksapples/UndoBush.html “Teacher, you forgot to mention the proof of how corrupt the Pentagon/Cheney-Bush/Halliburton is that was presented on C-Span September 16, 2005 during the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on Contracts in Iraq. The two women who testified were loyal Republicans with impeccable credentials.” “And,” said Keith Olberman, “you also forgot to mention Philip Giraldi’s article from the October 24, 2005 issue of The American Conservative. It’s really one of the most shocking and infuriating things you’ll ever read regarding how this Administration’s flagrant malfeasance has completely lead to the worst foreign policy catastrophe in history; as well as directly contributing to the unnecessary loss of lives. I don’t know what’s more vexing, the details in the story, or the fact that the Bush Administration still remains in office despite this article being in the public domain. Although I guess it shouldn’t surprise me since I’ve already read Larry Diamond’s book, which should have been subtitled: A President’s Guide to How Not to Make All the Wrong Decisions When Acting as Midwife for Democracy in the Middle East.” “Teacher, I can believe in a miracle happening, but we should have a backup plan, like impeaching him with the Downing Street Memo. Surely you’ve heard of it. After all, The Liberal Media has been talking about it around the clock since the day it was first reported in The Times of London on May 1, 2005. According to a former CIA official it’s not an exaggeration to say it was a smoking gun that proves they took us to war in bad faith. (…Not that we needed such a memo to ascertain that Bush is more full of shit than a baby with the runs when claiming that he took us to war as a last resort.)” “Are you kidding me? You expect anyone to have faith in the process while Republicans are in control?! I suppose that next you’re going to tell me we should just be patient until the 2006 elections and hope that the balance of power shifts even though you know full well that the Republicans stole the presidency both times and who knows how many other seats besides the obvious examples of Chuck Hagel and Sonny Perdue; (…And has anything been done to prevent them from doing it again? According to Mark Crispin Miller’s Fooled Again and Greg Palast’s Armed Madhouse, no.) I mean, Ambassador Joseph Wilson established for a FACT that Bush LIED—L-I-E-D—during the State of the Union address when he said that Iraq was trying to get uranium from Africa. In fact, those same 16 words had already been removed from a non-televised speech 3 months earlier on Tenet’s insistence. Yet, were there repercussions for Bush for such an egregious, criminal, irresponsible and sophomoric interpretation of reality? Did any one person anywhere make any other person have to fucking ACCOUNT for those words of fiction?” “(And, what’s so frighteningly bizarre about it—and directly parallel to how the Jeff Gannon and Armstrong Williams charades were so above the surface—not only did they attempt to deceive us, but, somehow, they either overlooked that Wilson would call them on it…or they just didn’t think it would matter if he did. Rice is on record as saying that, indeed, those 16 words were ‘a mistake.’ Mr. Bush himself stated that, ultimately, he was responsible for the speech. So by what terms is he defining ‘responsible’?) …So what makes you think that just because you have ‘proof,’ or ‘evidence’ that *he deserves to be put in The Hague, we should now suddenly expect the media, Congress or the uber-rich to start behaving as if it’s incumbent upon them to take him to task? I mean,*like, yesterday, when Bush said that critics were rewriting history, do you think any of the press is going to ask him if he thinks that the Downing Street Memo should be included in the history books? Do you think Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner and Bill Gates will step up to the plate and pay for every billboard in America to display the *2/08/06, *4/25/06, *8/01/06 and *10/03/06 installments of Tom Tomorrow’s ‘This Modern World’? Or do you think that the press is ever going to stand up to W. and say, ‘Sir, we’ve finally read Craig Unger’s House of Bush/House of Saud, as well as Gerald Posner’s Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, so now we have to ask: *What the fuck?’? Or do you think Wolf Blitzer is ever going to read Kristina Borjesson’s Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press and then admit that he and his ilk should be at the top of the shit list? Or do you think I should hold my breath waiting for Bill O’Reilly to say, ‘Gee, it turns out there’s a direct correlation between the deaths of those miners and the lax safety standards due to the coal lobby’s donations to Bush’? Or do you think Darin Kagan, Bill Hemmer, Mark Davis, Rusty Humphries, Tammy Bruce, Laura Ingram, Mike Church and Glenn Beck, will apoplectically muse, ‘MICHAEL CHERTOFF’S EXCUSE FOR CUTTING NY’S TERRORISM FUNDING WAS THAT NYC HAS NO NATIONAL MONUMENTS OR ICONS???!!!’ Or do you think Jon Stewart is ever going to take off the kid gloves and spank the living shit out of guys like Ed Gillespie? Or do you think Tom Brokaw will have the decency to declare on the evening news: ‘Folks, upon reading Mary Mapes’ new book, Truth and Duty, we at NBC News can now say in good conscience that Dan Rather had the story straight—it’s highly probable that those documents were authentic; and dishonorable behavior is not ‘honorable’ just because they say so’? …OR DO YOU THINK THAT HARD-HITTING KATIE COURIC WILL FORCE THE WALLS TO COME CRASHING DOWN OVER HOW LIBBY’S APRIL 5 REVELATION CONFIRMED THAT PRESIDENT B%*# IS UTTERLY AND INCONTROVERTABLY DISHONORABLE; AND GUILTY OF FLAGRANT DUPLICITY AND DECEPTION OF THE WORST KIND???? OR DO YOU THINK THAT MATT LAUER AND BRIAN WILLIAMS WOULD EVER DARE MAKE US PROUD BY TELLING BUSH: ‘YOU AND YOUR WHOLE ORGANIZATION ARE SICK, SADISTIC, LYING SACKS OF SHIT!!!! …AND FOR THIS YOU SHALL PAY DEARLY’?
*Retired Marine Terry Davis then said, “Teacher, if none of that works, perhaps we should walk around with big signs that read: ‘Hey, Bush supporters! WAKE THE FUCK UP!! YOU’VE BEEN DUPED BY AN INCOMPETENT FRAUD!!!’”
“I know that’s tempting, Terry, but it wouldn’t be particularly productive. Appropriate banners would be: ‘ALL HAIL PRESIDENT TUSH’ or, ‘PUT BUSH ON THE SPOT’ or, ‘Hey, George! Americans want their credibility back!’ or, ‘God bless me and nobody else’ or, Democrats are dumber than Republicans are corrupt’ or, ‘RECTIFY BUSH’ or, ‘My retarded hamster is smarter than your president’ or, ‘SPEAK UP LOUDLY FOR DEMOCRACY OR GO HOME’ or, ‘Support our troops: Make better decisions.’ But what you really ought to do is insist that John McCain swear under oath whom he’d prefer between Clark and Bush, because he’s read Waging Modern War, and it’s impossible to imagine that anyone who’s read that would not be chomping at the bit to put the man behind that book in the White House. Finally, bribe the White House press corps to behave like Fletcher from the movie LIAR LIAR. Have them all start carrying megaphones and wearing rubber fishing pants to protect them from the diarrhea that ‘Simple Scotty’ spews so readily. So when he next tries to, for example, defend Karl Rove’s divisive, asinine and indefensible statement that Liberals wanted to give Al Qaeda therapy after 9/11, they can all stand up and shout into their megaphones: ‘ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING US???!!!!!!!!!!!’”
“Teacher,” Jack Nicholson said, “wouldn’t you just love to see that sequel do a re-enactment of how Diane Sawyer should have responded when Junior admitted in an interview that he saw no difference (i.e., he said, ‘What’s the difference?’) between Vice-President Cheney saying ‘there is no doubt that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction’ and there is ‘the possibility that Saddam could acquire weapons.’ That way, if another journalist is ever in such a position, she’ll know that the appropriate response should be: ‘THE DIFFERENCE, YOU CRIMINALLY ARROGANT AND SIMPLE-MINDED DISSEMBLER, IS THE THRESHOLD FOR GOING TO WAR OR NOT GOING TO WAR. IF YOU NEED TO HAVE THAT EXPLAINED TO YOU THEN THE JIG IS FRICKEN UP!!!!!!!!!!! BECAUSE YOU CAN’T POSSIBLY HAVE MADE THIS DECISION IN GOOD FAITH IF YOU CAN’T RECONCILE THE DISCREPENCY BETWEEN THOSE TWO DIFFERENT STATEMENTS!!!!’”
“Teacher,” said Kevin Spacey, “after what the Republicans did in the campaign against Max Cleland—the triple amputee Vietnam Veteran whom they juxtaposed with Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden because he voted against the Patriot Act—I’ve learned to accept that there’s no limit to how low they will stoop, because they understand that, for now, there are enough ill-informed, fear-based voters to lick up their gruel. Be that as it may, though, I still have to ask you: how am I supposed to wrap my mind around the fact that Rove’s flagrant use of 9/11 for partisan gain didn’t backfire and cause Bush supporters to vomit, especially since Mr. Bush claimed to be a uniter, not a divider?”
“I can’t wrap my mind around it either, Kevin, so I can’t help you. And if any of you figure out a way to wrap your mind around that Painfully Embarrassing time that W. landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln—the time when people who had just returned from a war were anxious to go home to their families, not stand around for 3 hours as part of a PR stunt under rented stadium lights at a cost of $1 million to taxpayers just so Monkey Boy could strut around as if he had just won third place in The Special Olympics—let me know. I mean, putting aside the bizarre Orwellian fact that the Administration’s defense of the ‘Mission Accomplished’ sign was that they didn’t hang the sign (they merely made it and gave it to the Navy, so blame the Navy), how is it possible that the entire Administration was oblivious to the fact that toppling a dictator is only HALF the battle???? Sure, they’ll say that they already know that, after all, Mr. Bush qualified his speech by acknowledging that there was still tough work ahead, yadda yadda yadda. Okay, so then WHY DON’T THEY JUST TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT SIGN??? And, for that matter, WHY, IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, DID THEY NOT ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION AND PUT IN MORE TROOPS INSTEAD OF LESS??!!”
“Teacher, speaking of creating opportunity,” asked Whoopi Goldberg, “what do you make of the fact that Republican Senator Lugar told Al Franken: ‘The government can’t create jobs’?”
“I’d like to make a noose of that fact and hang The Republican Party. They ought to just put up a sign at their headquarters that reads: ‘WE’RE USELESS AND WE HAVE NO IMAGINATION.’ For starters, the government could hire every electrician to install light and motion sensors on the light switches in every building. And besides merely telling Americans that we need to conserve, they could also make low-interest long-term loans available so communities can weatherize their homes, schools and businesses. And they can’t use the excuse that no one has ever thought of this idea since Harry Reid has already thrown it out there. It’s as though their playbook is to do the opposite of the Democrats and common sense, i.e., ‘Dark Days for Energy Efficiency’ and ‘Senate Republicans Screw Troops Yet Again.’”
“Not only are they useless,” Whoopi noted, “but they’re also clueless; as was first proven when Reagan took office and removed the solar panels Carter had put in; then again when Senator Dole ran a commercial denouncing Democrats for pushing midnight basketball; and again when a Republican Congresswoman said on the house floor that ‘The American people know how to spend their money more wisely than the government.’ By that logic it would mean that beef is a wiser purchase than tofu, cows’ milk a wiser purchase than soy milk, and that more than half the stuff in Wal-Mart is not useless junk.”
“Indeed, Whoopi,” said Lynn Samuels, “but, considering that the current incarnation of Uncle Sam believes that applying a ‘waste not, want not’ strategy to the economy would hinder prosperity, you have to admit that she’s right to accuse the government of being unwise with its spending; i.e., WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MONEY FOR THE LEVEES!!!!??? ...So I guess it shouldn’t surprise anyone that despite Katrina’s wrath they have still made it explicitly clear that their avarice knows no bounds, and, thus, won’t be satisfied until they repeal the estate tax on the top 2%, which amounts to $1 trillion in tax revenue. And to add insult to injury, on November 18, 2005, the Republican-controlled Congress helped itself to a $3,100 pay raise and then postponed work on bills to curb spending on social programs and cut taxes in favor of a two-week vacation. Then, on June 23, 2006, they voted down the increase in the minimum wage!! No wonder Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson were able to fill a whole book on their completely parasitic style of legislating in Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of Democracy to complement John Dean’s Conservatives Without Conscience.”
“Not only that, teacher, but Bush and his crazy neo-Cons still insist that the super rich get huge tax cuts despite the $200 billion it’s going to take to rebuild the devastation. So I guess we’re all going to have to set ourselves on fire to prevent that, otherwise it’s only a matter of time before China calls in its loan.”
“Teacher,” asked Jim Hightower, “why does President Flip-Flop act like he deserves a medal whenever he stands on principle even if it’s in the face of serious opposition, but then frowns upon others who do the same thing in opposition to him as if it’s not their civic duty to voice their dissent? Like, with Dixie Chicks. If Bush had half a clue about setting an example to the world about the beauty of democracy, not only would he have told the people to back off of them, his retort would have been: ‘I’m proud of my fellow Texans who have the character to honor America’s most important principle.’ Or like, with Terri Schiavo. If they genuinely believe that the federal government is morally obligated to usurp everyone else, then, fine. But how do they dare argue to the rest of us that we’re immoral for thinking that sometimes it’s necessary to decide if people get to continue living? What the hell do they think they were doing when deciding to explode bombs around civilians or when they execute those who might very well be innocent?”
“It would certainly be interesting to hear how he’d answer that himself. And he certainly deserves a special Presidential Academy Award for being able to keep a straight face when he said of Terri that ‘It’s always wise to err on the side of life.’”
“Teacher, a caller to Michael Reagan’s radio show said: ‘The war is going magnificently.’ So isn’t it possible that Wes, Chuck Hagel, Larry Diamond, Bill Krystol, Francis Fukuyama, William Buckley, Shep Smith, Newt Gingrich, Bruce Bartlett, Jack Straw, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Scott Ritter, Christopher Shays, Jack Murtha, Col. Mike Turner, Marine Captain Christopher H. Sheppherd, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Charles Pollard, Marine Maj. William McCollough, the Stop the War Coalition and Generals Sir Richard Dannatt, Colin Powell, Anthony Zinni, John Batiste, Paul Eaton, Gregory Newbold, John Riggs, Charles Swannack, Jr., William Odom and Paul Van Riper don’t know what they’re talking about?”
“Well, go read The Guardian article from Nov. 29, ‘Nowhere to Run,’ by Martin van Creveld, a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and one of the world’s foremost military historians. Several of his books have influenced modern military theory and he is the only non-American author on the US Army’s list of required reading for officers. According to him, President Bush should be impeached and put on trial ‘for misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 BC sent his legions into Germany and lost them.’ And that in Iraq ‘There is now a multi-party electoral system, but it has institutionalized and consolidated the country’s ethnic, sectarian and tribal divisions—exactly the sort of thing that should be avoided when attempting to democratize.’ Furthermore…‘No one can claim that any of this was unexpected. The dangers had been foreseen by numerous analysts and commentators long before the war started but they were ignored in Washington, mainly for ideological reasons.’
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