The Absolute Delusion of the Boy King Coward

[zulchzulu]

I watched Bush's speech tonight and tried to see why I have absolutely no respect for him. What I saw and heard was a fleeting assault of so many lies and half-truths and propaganda that it would take a week to parse through the asinine lies.

Bush referred to the "people of Iraq" numerous times where we are to see them as "allies".

These "allies" have been bombed by this country with more firepower than WWI, WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam combined. These "allies" have their country's infrastructure destroyed and they are lucky to have water that doesn't poison them or electricity that lasts more than 6 hours a day. We stopped counting how many Iraqis have died and are dying years ago. We redefined "sectarian violence" where car bomb attacks and shots in the front of the head are not counted as such.

The sputtering drivel from Bush about "capturing or killing the enemy" ignores the notion that those people in most cases are Iraqis, our "allies". It seems that Bush has finally learned what a Shiite and a Sunni are if only to use as metaphors in some madhouse cartoon world of the "good guys" against the "bad guys". It's a shell game he can play with the ignorant, the uninformed and the terminally loyal followers of his death screed.

As I watched him read the teleprompter better than usual (which isn't saying much) and then seeing him read the email from the poor parents of a dead soldier who apparently swallow the college dropout Sean Hannity's "freedom isn't free" meme, I thought about how much they wanted to rehearse that moment for effect. It was such an obvious show of faux-sincerity that even the mere idea that he understood their loss was well beyond his comprehension. Their dead son was now used as a prop for more dead sons and daughters to be thrown into the Freedom Isn't Free meat grinder.

Mostly, I was waiting for someone to show up behind the window behind him in the Oval Office and grab his speech and throw it into the fireplace. Then some law enforrcement people would crash through the window and arrest him for being a war criminal and a treasonous enemy of what America truly stands for. That was when I knew it was time to turn off the TV. But I kept it on.

I pray in my own way for those that are serving over there in this madness. They just saw how nothing is going to change, albeit a brigade or two of over-exhausted, under-protected and soon to be thrown into the trash set of soldiers. This AWOL Boy King Coward, who has made it a point to try to take away our own freedom, seeks only to destroy what his soft hands can render. We are just to sit idly by and let it happen.

God* help America.


* In the spirit of yin/yang/Great Spirit

[rusty quoin]

1. The part of the speech about the parents of their dead son,

I listened and couldn't imagine how they think their son's death is worth it in the end.

[zulchzulu]

2. Welcome to DU!

On your statement, I bet they get on TV tomorrow saying they had wished Bush had contacted them before using their son as a prop. They also are probably still searching for answers why their son had to die. I can only hope they can sleep tonight without crying all night.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Bush is a total sociopath. He has no conscience, so nothing is beneath him. He is incapable of

ever actually regretting anything that hurts someone else. The only regrets he might have would have to involve himself directly, and his own delusional self-centered world.

[alteredstate]

6. That part of Bush's speech made me cringe

My stepson is stationed in Baghdad, and I don't think Bush gives a rat's ass about his safety.

[zulchzulu]

7. I hope he's alright

Stationed in Baghdad...wow...when is he due back?

[alteredstate]

16. He might come home next summer, but we're not betting on it.

He's been there since Jan. 1st.

[tomreedtoon]

4. You should not have to justify your religious belief with a *.

Not here, anyway. There are people with all kinds of beliefs here. There is no need to pull political correctness crap in a standard post.

I put the question to anybody here. Are you offended by the word "God?"

You are?

Here's a piece of black tape. Put it over your monitor where the horribly offensive name appears. Feel better? Okay.

Now let's drop the fearful crap and move on.

[zulchzulu]

5. I don't wear religion on my sleeve...

Being raised a Catholic with several uncles who were priests, I've seen religion. I use the word "God" these days in my own way, which spiritually is currently somewhere between Taoism and the Hopi tribe with a little past staring at a candle meditation on the side. Is it "politically correct"? Isn't that Newtspeak?

If you are offended by me bringing up "God" in my own way and want to try to guilt me into some vamp about Jesus and all that stuff (I like Jesus too), then go do a rosary, ferchrissakes...no pun intended.

Do you want to hijack the thread with some garbled goofball gristle about "God"? As the Runt once sang, will the Real God please stand up...now will the Real God please sit down...stand up...sit down...stand up...sit down...

[tomreedtoon]

9. Sorry, you looked like you were being bullied.

There is a PC contingent around here that would remove all references to God, willy-nilly. And all references to race, sexual orientation, et cetera. I thought you had just been beaten up and left in a dumpster by those people, and were afraid to express a belief in a deity or higher power of any kind.

I hate bullies. And I hated the idea that someone had bullied you. If this wasn't the case, then, okay, no harm, no foul.

[zulchzulu]

10. Nah...

I've been trying to actually show that there are progressives who are equally Christians and/or spiritual. I've met them and I've gone to peace rallies where there are plenty from the spiritual corner who actually follow the words of Jesus, not use his image and words for hate...

I can't be bullied either. I hit back.

:thumbsup:

[pingzing58]

13. I love that... stand up, sit down, ... very funny. Not offended at all n God doesn't mind either.

[rasputin1952]

8. The most notable thing about bush's speech tonight...

was the incredible lack of emotion, on any level, that he displayed.

I believe the creature is a sociopath, always have, he could care about nothing other than those in his own little bubble-world, and even then, they are cast off when no longer necessary or aggrandizing enough to satiate his lust for his own narcissistic "personality".

When he came to the point where he was discussing the soldier and his family, I cringed. If it had been my son or daughter who died in this war, I damn sure would not have sent bush a "letter of appreciation", but to each there own, I sympathize with the loss that family has had. But it was bush and his insane "policy" that sent that soldier there, and I have yet to see bush show up at one funeral, show an iota of empathy, other than when cameras are present at some "pre-set" function.

This odious creature will be gone soon, and like most sociopaths, he will leave a trail of destruction and ruin for others to clean up. I can only hope and pray that the citizens of this nation NEVER allow another shitweasel like this to occupy a position of power and authority.

[zulchzulu]

11. You nailed it! I am so used to him being that way...but you got it.

When he read the email from the dead soldier's parents (if that even exists), he acted badly when he looked down as to make the audience think he ws not using a teleprompter. It was apparent in his speech patterns throughout the speech that he was reading a teleprompter...coldly and robotically.

His words were deathly cold and disjointed.

[rasputin1952]

12. Johnson showed great emotion, he knew men were being

killed and maimed. He, like all other presidents in times of war, felt compassion, empathy and sincere sympathy.

Lincoln would personally see widows and parents of those killed on the fields, he quietly ensured they would be taken care of.

Roosevelt and Truman knew what was happening, and went out of their ways to make sure the nation knew they felt the pain of those left behind from the carnage, they noted the sacrifice, they did not sway from the mission, but they took on the burden of loss.

bush, feels nothing; the process is not there, it never was. he has never been held accountable for failure, in fact, he was bailed out so often by Poppy and his friends, that failure somehow came out to be "success".

I don't want a president who wails incessantly at the news of a lost soldier, but I do want one who is not ashamed to show up at a funeral, perhaps get moist eyes and have the dignity and grace to acknowledge that sacrifice is a painful experience. Since this little cretin has never sacrificed a thing in his entire miserable life, he cannot fathom what others have gone through. To him, this is a game, and he feels he has to win at whatever cost...even though he has never won anything before legitimately.

His legacy will be as his life....complete and utter failure. He will go down in history as the worst executive this nation has ever known, and he's taking the neo-cons w/him...Thank God...:)

[opihimoimoi]

14. The GOP invested their time, their dollars, and their respect in Bush.. They got taken.

[rasputin1952]

17. Hi Opi! Near as I can figure, it was a waste of time...

waste of dollars and for the life of me....Lord knows respect just plain does not exist....:D

:hi:

[opihimoimoi]

18. GO BUCKEYES......

Bush is a waste of air water and food......

[illinoisprogressive]

15. I worry because Bush is really psychologically unfit and Cheney is a raving zealot.