W.R. Pitt´s Christmas wish

25 Dec 2002 | W.R. Pitt

[Michael81Dus]

Well, a bit lately but funny:

All I Want for Christmas By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Christmas Day -- Wednesday, December 25, 2002

I want to see the proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before we engage in a war that will send tens of thousands of civilians to their deaths, enrage the Muslim world against us, grievously wound the American economy, and guarantee more terrorism here at home. I am sure the Bush administration's incontrovertible proof that these weapons exist is a sheaf of shipping manifests from roundabout 1984, when we sent the stuff to Saddam in the first place, but I want to see it anyway.

I want to hear about the endgame for our Iraq war. Who will rule in Saddam's place, and how will that person be an improvement? How will the Shiites and Kurds be represented and protected? How long will American forces have to be there? How much will it cost? Who gets the payout from the oil fields? How much of this war is based upon business decisions? Will we stop at Iraq, or will we move on to Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Egypt in the manner that Richard Perle has often envisioned?

I want to know what happened on September 11th, and why, and who messed up. This does not count as a gift - as a citizen, I am owed this, and so are you.

I want to know what was in the smallpox shot Bush got. Was it distilled water or Maker's Mark?

I want to watch John Ashcroft pet a calico cat with a big grin on his face.

I want to know how Jose Padilla and the Guantanamo detainees are celebrating the season. They are not Christian, true, but they are people being held like cattle with nary a mention of basic rights. Maybe someone could send them a fruitcake with the ACLU's telephone number frosted across the top.

I want a nationally known journalist - any journalist - to begin the process of calling the Bush administration to account for its dizzying malfeasance. Enron, Halliburton, Harken, Arthur Andersen, Eli Lilly, Carlyle and O my Lord how the money rolled in. I want the Fairness Doctrine's reestablishment to be a lynchpin policy goal for a Democratic candidate in 2004. I want my free press back.

I want to know where the anthrax killer is.

I want to know where Osama bin Laden is.

I want to know if the two of them are living in sin with Amelia Earhardt somewhere in the suburbs of Paris. We can bomb Paris, right? We can bomb anyone.

I want to know what happened to Paul Wellstone's airplane.

I want 55% of Americans to vote in the 2004 Presidential election. 55% is not such a big goal; only 50% voted in 2000, and something like 39% voted in the 2002 midterms. Let's shoot for a 55% I-give-a-good-damn quotient, America. What do you say? When you don't vote, the terrorists win - the foreign ones, and the domestic ones.

Finally, I want every single soul in the Bush administration to read the following lines. I want them to pay close attention to the words in bold:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

This we call precedent, set by the Founders for all time in the Declaration of Independence. This we call our right as citizens.

Merry Christmas.

[Sparta]

Where's the Barf Alert?

[Monty22]

It's funny, you can stop reading this when he says we should worry about enraging the islamic world. This guy has NO idea that they are already completely enraged.

[KC Burke]

The Christmas list from the bitter left. What use is it?

[Michael81Dus]

Oh excuse me, it´s the first time that I posted an article. Barf alert means "laughing alert""?

[Michael81Dus]

Just take your time while reading and smile... the ideas of that guy are REALLY funny!! :-))

[Sparta]

Barf Alert means it's written by a liberal or expouses the daily liberal spin. Mr. Pitt has a special place in many Freepers' heart.

[Michael81Dus]

Alright, thanks. Now I´ll know it for the next time.

[Sparta]

I just added it under humor, because Pitt is hilarious!!!!
(Though he's not trying to be)

[KC Burke]

Oh, we all are very familiar with "that guy." He is persona non grata around here. It would be a shame to give him too much publicity. But his crude leftist longings are so easy to punture that I'm sure our fellows will give them a lancing like the festering boils they resemble.

[Little Bill]

Looks like Willy has been hanging around the Brewery in JP again. This tawdry, chubby , little sodomite is actually allowed to prevert the minds of children in the Boston School System.

[eshu]

I want to know what happened on September 11th, and why, and who messed up. This does not count as a gift - as a citizen, I am owed this, and so are you.

Don't hold your breath.... the first choice (refused) should tell you something about the real prioroties here...

[KC Burke]

A typical lancing would be where he says:

I want to know where Osama bin Laden is.

The answer would be:
He is not where Clinton left him...in control of a surrogate state tyrant party as its appointed Defense Minister with millions in hand making War on our country and "Crusaders" in general killing our countrymen after bombing our embassys on Clinton's watch.

[Michael81Dus]

The best and also most crazy part of the text:

"Will we stop at Iraq, or will we move on to Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Egypt in the manner that Richard Perle has often envisioned?

I want to know what happened on September 11th, and why, and who messed up."

God, I want to know who´s his psychiatrist, to send him my bid to quit his job.

[SamAdams76]

I want to know why there haven't been any great composers since Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Sure, we've had some good ones since such as Verdi, Wagner, Mendelssohn, Mahler, and Schubert. But no truly immortal greats. Why is that? Why don't we have a 20th Century equivalent to Beethoven or Bach? Or even Mozart?

I also want to know what the heck has happened to The Weather Channel. Those guys are pathetic. You get maybe eight minutes of content in the course of an hour. The rest of the time, you have endless loops of the same maps over and over again for six-hour blocks. The "local" forecasts are pathetic. You can get more detail out of the newspaper for crying out loud. And besides, they often cut into the middle of the local forecasts anyhow to bring us commercials. It is such a sloppy operation that it's pathetic. They used to be better than that. Now I just bookmark Accuweather.com and I guess I'll get rooked into paying the monthly fee that they are getting ready to impose just so I can get a damn halfway reliable weather forecast when I want one.

These things, and more, really piss me off. Have a nice day.

[Michael81Dus]

LOL Yeah, these are indeed the real questions of life!!

[thepitts]

I want to watch John Ashcroft pet a calico cat with a big grin on his face.

OK,I'll second this one.

[johnny7]

Pitt has a cinder-block for a brain. On the Titanic, Pitt would wear a wig and a dress and jump in a boat.

This scum needs a beating... real bad. He is pit... a hole.

[Little Bill]

Johnny7

Pitt does wear a dress.

[redbaiter]

Ah yes, the Fairness Doctrine. It's not fair that anyone who disagrees with big-government socialism should be allowed to say so on the gove - er, I mean, on the people's airwaves, so we must require all broadcasters to provide equal time to their opponent, so as to make sure the sheeple are not misled. Of course this effectively doubles the cost of a conservative talk show, as broadcasters would have to sell twice as much advertising time, and the opposition figure may not have the draw of say, a Rush Limbaugh or a Sean Hannity. The result: very few stations would carry either Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. That's fair.