OUR TROOPS ARE DYING FOR SYCOPHANTS (Condi Rice hearings-ultra barf alert!)

Creators.com ^ | January 20, 2005 | Paul Craig Roberts

[The Loan Arranger]

In her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "Condi" Rice personified the Bush administration's delusion-based "war against terror." Whenever a senator's question penetrated to the harsh reality, Condi waffled and evaded, choosing to protect at the expense of her reputation the neocon delusion that invading Iraq was the "right thing to do." Exasperated, Senator Barbara Boxer objected to Condi's "continuing assault on reality."

Condi Rice's outstanding qualification for secretary of state in the Bush administration is that she is the complete sycophant. She fits right in. Can you name anyone in the Bush administration who is not a sycophant?

Consider: On Jan. 13, the Financial Times reported that many in the Bush administration are alive to the "depth of the crisis" in Iraq, "but, they say, this is not a view accepted by President George W. Bush." Another source told the Financial Times that "reality based" assessments of the Iraq crisis "stop well short of the president."

Citing sources, the Financial Times reports that when queried by President Bush for his views on the progress of the war, Secretary of State Colin Powell replied, "We're losing." Bush responded to his candid secretary of state not by asking Powell to tell him about it but by asking Powell to leave.

The way President Bush sees it, bearers of bad news are "against America." This means that anyone who is not a sycophant is not "with us" but "against us." How can there be any bad news when America is Good, America is Powerful, and the other guys are bad and not powerful?

If Bush were aware that his army has failed to "secure Iraq," he might wonder at the neocon-Likudnik plans to attack Iran. Bush might even stop being Richard Perle's puppet. Or Ariel Sharon's poodle.

[The Loan Arranger]

This guy is a CONSERVATIVE???

[clee1]

No... this guy is a flaming liberal nutcase.

[rdb3]

This guy is a CONSERVATIVE???

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Why yes, of course. He's a strong, principled paleoconservative. The kind that others are unworthy to shake his hand.

Real men don't whine.

[swilhelm73]

The way President Bush sees it, bearers of bad news are "against America." This means that anyone who is not a sycophant is not "with us" but "against us." How can there be any bad news when America is Good, America is Powerful, and the other guys are bad and not powerful?

The terrorists we face on the battlefied in Iraq simply cannot defeat us militarily. They can kill American soldiers, and will, but they simply don't have the numbers and equipment to run our troops out of Iraq into the Persian Gulf, or to kill more then a tiny fraction of them.

So, why do they fight, and their allies in Syria and Iran supply and work with them?

Because they know they can win another way...

If you can convince the decision makers in America, ultimately the voters, that the conflict is unwinnable, the American army will leave the nation to the Jihadis.

How then do you convince the American voting public of this? Why by manipulating those who serve up the information to the America voting public. It helps, of course, that much of the press is more then willing to distort the news for their own personal agenda of bringing down Bush and the Republican party.

Consider, for a moment, how much this sort of bias effects news coverage in general when one of the MSM's stalwarts, Dan Rather, was willing to run what he knew to be fake records of Bush's National Guard service to try to weaken the President's election hopes.

While much of the defeatism one hears is simply based on ignorace and the placement of ideology over reality, one cannot but acknowledge that it is not only our foes most powerful weapons, but their only hope to defeat us

[7.62 x 51mm]

No, this guy is a liberal-progressive-demokkkRAT-socialist-commie-nazi-fascist-hate America-hate Israel wackjob. Bigtime.

[kb2614]

He's a conservative in the sense that Pat Buchanan is a conservative. Ole Paul has a wild hair up his butt about President Bush, just like ole Bucky. There isolationists. Don't know if Paul has a "blame the JOOOOSSSS" fetish like Pat does though. Wouldn't doubt it.

[KMC1]

summed it up nicely in my opinion...

[endthematrix]

"Does it remind you of Adolf Hitler, who, unable to invade tiny England, marched his army off into Russia?"

No. The US isn't playing total war like Hitler in WW2. The fact the author is ignorant of that is telling. Not worthy of a handshake? I think most don't want to get their hands filthy.

[iopscusa]

You are right, Jacobs is "a liberal-progressive-demokkkRAT-socialist-commie-nazi-fascist-hate America-hate Israel wackjob. Bigtime". May I add washed up, dead headed thinker...and traitor! May he drown in his own negativity.

[johniegrad]

Condi Rice's outstanding qualification for secretary of state in the Bush administration is that she is the complete sycophant. She fits right in. Can you name anyone in the Bush administration who is not a sycophant?

Guess who learned a new word today?

[metesky]

Don't know if Paul has a "blame the JOOOOSSSS" fetish like Pat does though.

From the article:

If Bush were aware that his army has failed to "secure Iraq," he might wonder at the neocon-Likudnik plans to attack Iran. Bush might even stop being Richard Perle's puppet. Or Ariel Sharon's poodle.

Pretty much tells me what I need to know.

[rdb3]

Not worthy of a handshake? I think most don't want to get their hands filthy.

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Of course, I was being sarcastic.

Real men don't whine.

[tkathy]

I had to look it up : "a servile self-seeking flatterer"

[Beckwith]

Sword swallower alert!

[kb2614]

Ah, nice catch,,,,,,figures.

[endthematrix]

Whew! Tonight I've come across may share of some crazy postings. I've been wading knee high in it! I wasted a good part of the night thinking I was battling a troll, when the guy thought I had signed up a proxy FReep account so I could do some 2 on 1 logic battle on him! Never crossed my mind. One of those two posts forward, one post back. Not much accomplished.

[tkathy]

Clinton's bottom kissers fit the profile fairly well.

[LarkNeelie]

Much better if we have a president who is surrounded by saboteurs, wot? ;o

Dr. Rice hardly strikes me as a yes-man heiney-kisser! I think Senator Boxer can back me up on that.