We have some seriously deranged people running our government.......

[springhill]

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"The arrows are all pointing in the wrong direction," said Richard N. Haass, who was President Bush's first-term State Department policy planning director. "The biggest danger in the short run is it just increases frustration and alienation from the United States in the Arab world. Not just the Arab world, but in Europe and around the world. People will get a daily drumbeat of suffering in Lebanon and this will just drive up anti-Americanism to new heights."

The White House recognizes the danger but thinks the missiles flying both ways across the Israel-Lebanon border carry with them a chance to finally break out of the stalemate of Middle East geopolitics. Bush and his advisers hope the conflict can destroy or at least cripple Hezbollah and in the process strike a blow against the militia's sponsor, Iran, while forcing the region to move toward final settlement of the decades-old conflict with Israel.

"He wants a resolution that will solve the problem," White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters yesterday. "Not only do we feel sorrow for what happened in Qana, but also a determination that it is really important to remove the conditions that led to that."

"This moment of conflict in the Middle East is painful and tragic," Bush said in his radio address Saturday. "Yet it is also a moment of opportunity for broader change in the region. Transforming countries that have suffered decades of tyranny and violence is difficult, and it will take time to achieve. But the consequences will be profound for our country and the world."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14110834/

[slor]

1. The inmates are, indeed...

running the asylum.

[Magical]

2. Want an Itemized List of their Characteristics ?

http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/serial.htm#Sociopath

See...The Socialised Psychopath or Sociopath

[cyclezealot]

3. Even the better known crooks are thugs.

Example, John Negorponte. Now heads intelligence services. Involved in the quagmire in El Salvador. Condoned, likely even funded Neo nazi death squads under the former right wing government in El Salvador and Nicaragua. Involved in cover ups when the nuns were murdered there.
And to think many Democrats in the Senate, did not find his many nominations by Bush, totally offensive.

[EFerrari]

6. When I tried to talk to my senator's staff about this POS

they reacted as if I'd stepped on their toe. It was just weird.

[cyclezealot]

7. That's why I gave up on many a Democrat

Negroponte is a murdering thug. HOw can he be forgiven. Even Barbara Boxer voted for him once. I called her staff. Said something like the other proposed names were even worse. Senators can be allowed the ocassional lousy vote, if most of their record is excellant. She certainly must have known he is a murdering thug.
Does the legal concept of double jeopardy apply to presidential appointments.?

[EFerrari]

8. I shudder to think who Barbara had to think about that was WORSE

than ol' Death Squads. On the other hand, every time I think these felons can't top themselves, they do.

You know, that's when Latin America gave up on us. Both here and south of the border? That's when they saw through the Big Lie and knew that the Great White Father was a homocidal sociopath. Ronnie cost us the good will of that whole part of the continent. We will never forget the casual exploitation and slaughter. Never. It's just not possible. We all know some family who suffered.

[undergroundpanther]

4. The necons are sick,

morally depraved authoritarian psychopaths

Suddenly, about the Bushes, it all becomes clear. The whole family is under the baleful influence of a chap called Chang. Here is Governor Jeb Bush in a speech last week, naming Marco Rubio as Florida Speaker. "Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society. I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life. He has been by my side and sometimes I let him down. But Chang, this mystical warrior, has never let me down." Jeb then unsheathed a golden sword, which he gave to Rubio. It's not the first time Chang has made an outing. In a Washington Post article of 1989, Jeb's father, George Bush Sr, is described using him to intimidate opponents in White House tennis games, inquiring at key points in the match, "Should I unleash Chang?"
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/backbench/story/0,14158,1579224,00.html

George Bush, the President, is one of the meanest, vindictive men I have ever met. Initially, when everything was going his way, the atmosphere of the White House was one of triumph and euphoria but now that Bush’s past deeds are about to crush him, he has reverted to what he was before he stopped boozing: a mean and spiteful person, given to a foul mouth and expressing really vulgar contempt for anyone and everyone who dares to cross him.

Bush is in a crazy rage about all the resistance he has been facing. He believes very firmly that he is acting on the orders of God Almighty and that anyone, be it the head of the CIA or some rogue reporter, must be punished for daring to thwart the Will of God!

http://www.willthomas.net/Convergence/Weekly/Is_Bush_Nuts_The_Sequel.htm

Conservatism is a sickness,caused by authoritarian personalities and their loyal uncritical obeying "flocks"fucking up our government
with their 'ambitions', immorality and blind obedience. Conservatives conserve the bully hegemony. Conservatism is not a political party it is a social sickness and ethical aberration,domination wrapped up and excused through a facade of religion.

http://www.unknownnews.org/060502a-Panther.html

[izzie]

5. All these college people but none seem to do this

Look to where terrorist were and are now gone and look into what happened to make then go away. Why is that not a way to see what could be done about this? If I can see that why can't some of the brains in Gov. try it? After all the whole DOD is set up on the war that went before so why not see what worked with the terrorist of yesterday. For about 60 years Israel military has not worked in this field so look to some thing else. Bush I am sure would not see it as he is so into they are 'evil' he can not think with any reason. I also think terrorist are bad people but lets get with some thinking on this with all those brains in DC and around the world and not just blowing up people and stuff. I do not get the point. They blow up 3000 so we take out about 100,000, and we now have more terrorists. Is that really working.

[ClintonTyree]

9. Heaven forbid he should work toward "a resolution that will solve......

the problem". I guess he's waiting for one to fall out of the sky, some divine intervention that he could later take credit for. He IS, after all, god's chosen one. :puke: Diplomacy: something the bush administration has no concept of.