7 January 2006 (# 33)
For those paying attention, Tucker Carlson’s interview of Mr. Bush in 1999 was all we needed to witness to know this man should never be permitted to act as either President of the United States or Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces:
Talk Magazine (September 1999, p. 106)
In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, a number of protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Karla Faye Tucker. "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask. Bush whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't meet with any of them," he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed.
"I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with Tucker, though. He asked her real difficult questions like, "What would you say to Governor Bush?" "What was her answer?" I wonder. "Please," Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "don't kill me."
I must look shocked--ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel--because he immediately stops smirking. Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker Even more telling than Bush’s vile performance is the fact that he subsequently denied he was mocking her.
Now, imagine you are among all those who have had their limbs shredded, faces fractured and torn-away, eyes never to see, ears never to hear – those recovering from wounds they never should have experienced had their Commander-in-Chief not been a lying war criminal. Instead they are mocked by a guy who went AWOL from a cushy nothing of an assignment:
At first I thought this was a blog parody. I mean, really, no one could be this clueless. Right? Boy, was I wrong. Here's what President Bush had to say at Brooke Army Medical Center the other day. Remember, he is visiting U.S. soldiers who are missing arms, legs, and eyes. Some soldiers are horribly mutilated from wounds suffered in Iraq. Most of the soldiers Bush visited were not "injured", they were "wounded". You get wounds in combat. You get injured while playing football or cutting brush. This is not just mindless nitpicking on my part.
This demonstrates a Commander-in-Chief out of touch with the reality of combat.Click here: President Visits Troops at Brooke Army Medical Center
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060101.html"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself -- not here at the hospital, but in combat with a Cedar. I eventually won. The Cedar gave me a little scratch. As a matter of fact, the Colonel asked if I needed first aid when she first saw me. I was able to avoid any major surgical operations here, but thanks for your compassion, Colonel. "
The president needs to understand what combat means. It is not tangling with a chain saw and some prickly pear brush. It involves firearms and explosives. It means watching your best friend bleed out on the battlefield. It means mind numbing fear as you prepare to enter a building that may or may not be providing refuge for a terrorist. It means killing other human beings. And for some, it leaves an emotional scar that the brave soldiers carry with them to their grave.
Link: http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/01/the_battle_of_c.html Those are the words of someone who knows, Larry Johnson.
Mr. Bush mocks a death-row woman, severely injured soldiers and then proves he’s more than capable of mocking all the still living former Secretaries of State and Defense as he vividly demonstrated two days ago.
Ms. Maureen Dowd offers the best characterization of the infamous 15 minutes of the many I’ve read in her
Reach Out and Touch No One:
Doing the math, you've got to figure that the 12 wise men and one wise woman
had about 30 seconds apiece to say their piece to the president about Iraq, where vicious assaults this week have killed almost 200 and raised U.S. troop fatalities to at least 2,189.
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Because W.'s mind is so closed to anybody except yes-men who tell him his policies and wars are slam-dunks, uneasy seasoned mandarins are forced to make a noisy stink.
Brent Scowcroft, one of Bush Senior's closest friends, had to resort to the pages of The New Yorker to voice his objections. He
ominously said Dick Cheney, his old colleague, was someone he no longer recognized.
You wonder whether the other contemporaries of Cheney and Rummy from Ford, Reagan and Bush I days were thinking the same thing at Thursday's meeting:
Why have these guys gone so kooky?W. is drunk on Cheney Kool-Aid. So he got testy when Ms. Albright pointed out that North Korea and Iran were going nuclear while the U.S. was bogged down in Baghdad.
Then, after a quick photo in the Oval, he shooed the old-timers out, letting anyone who wanted to stay talk to the security factotum Stephen Hadley.
Link: http://select.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/opinion/07dowd.html?hpGov. Dean, these people must be removed and either prosecuted or treated, or both. America should see a juxtaposition of the above three examples of Bush’s behavior, perhaps coupled with him listening to children read to him while America was undergoing the most significant attack within it’s continental territory in more than 150 years. It is essential that every candidate adopt some mechanism to ensure what Col. Karen Kwiatkowski predicts actually happens:
Green Zone commander General George Casey and his predecessor, 5th Corps Commander in Germany, Lt General Ricardo Sanchez
are both Most Excellent Yes Men on Iraq. Yet, they publicly disagreed this week. Sanchez told troops on their way to a tour in Iraq that “Iraq was on the verge of civil war.”
Within hours, Casey, speaking to CNN in Washington, said specifically that Iraq was NOT on the verge of civil war.
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The reality-based world is an ugly place. The Casey-said, Sanchez-said debate
prefigures a year ahead that may be remembered as the year the reality-based world rudely intruded on the Potomac, shattering what is left of the façade and
completely exploding the myth that Bush-Cheney policies have made either the Middle East more democratic, or America safer.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-kwiatkowski/hesaid-hesaid-and-a-2_b_13373.htmlYes, the reality-based world inhabited by those who are harmed and abused, daily, by Bush and the neoconsters must intrude on the Potomac and bring these criminals to justice. As part of that process we also must make certain that every voter has equivalent access to a ballot and that no vote is counted in secret, ever again, because we know that Bush is going to do everything he can to prevent a legitimate Congress and the American people from holding him and his neoconsters minions accountable. Any doubt, check his behavior, a small sample of which is described above.
Thank you for your continued leadership,
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