Eight billion mysteries stump the little man in the big White House

Free-Lance Star ^ | 9.2.06 | Fred Reed

[meandog]

GUADALAJARA--I'm wondering. Help me wonder. Either Georgie Bush is the minor, depressing, witless ferret I think he is, or I am. It has to be one or the other. If things don't start looking up pretty soon internationally, I'm going to be pretty sure which.

As best as I can tell, what the Maximum Cipher lacks, among an inexhaustible list of other things, is a hop toad's understanding of how people work. Here we have the explanation of just about everything he does. He's dealing with a world full of people, but has no idea what people are. He probably couldn't recognize one. So he doesn't take their predictable behavior into account.

Think about it. When he went braying into Iraq, he thought people would roll over, throw flowers, and have a democratic revolution. This would start a domino effect that would make all the other Muslim countries want to be democracies, too. They would climb over each other to be democracies. They would love us because democracies love each other. He just knew it.

This makes perfect sense if you have no flipping idea how human beings work.

[meandog]

I thought this guy was another liberal kook until I read his biography: click here ... I have to agree with the common sense the man makes!

[kinoxi]

When he went braying into Iraq
WTF?

[P-40]

This makes perfect sense if you have no flipping idea how human beings work.

He just summed up at least 90% of the politicians in Washington...

[Steel Wolf]

Ouch. Harsh, but fair.

[mosquewatch.com]

It is ok and healthy to disagree with some policies of President Bush.

Calling him a "depressing, witless ferret" leads me to believe he has a hidden agenda.

[Lancey Howard]

He has no faint idea of how people work. The man is an idiot.

FRED REED, who attended King George High School, is an expatriate living in Mexico.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

this is going to be a greeeaaat thread, with lots of braying here, too, LOL.

[metesky]

This article is horseshit from a horse's ass.

[italianquaker]

This must be maureen dowd day

[gcruse]

You read this piece, thought it was liberal kookery, read Fred's bio, decided the piece was common sense. Is that what you're saying?

[JLS]

I'm wondering. Help me wonder. Either Georgie Bush is the minor, depressing, witless ferret I think he is, or I am.

You are Mr. Reed. No need to read further.

[dirtboy]

When he went braying into Iraq, he thought people would roll over, throw flowers, and have a democratic revolution. This would start a domino effect that would make all the other Muslim countries want to be democracies, too.

Hmmm - since Iraq, Libya had renounced WMDs and Lebanon has moved towards democracy and splitting from Syrian influence. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have begun baby steps towards a more democratic society.

I guess facts are just too much of a bother when you are in full Bush-bash mode. And it's telling you would swallow it all up, meandog, and ask for seconds.

[Oldsailor]

If you see this as "common sense" then we now know much more about who you are.....and it ain't real purty!!!

[Darkwolf377]

If things don't start looking up pretty soon internationally, I'm going to be pretty sure which.

Yes, because the US president controls everything that happens in the world.

[ANGGAPO]

I agree. Sounds as if this turkey has a hidden agenda or is a closet Democrat.

[Soliton]

He claims to understand history. How is it that a country that we dropped two atomic bombs on can be one of our greatest allies?

[meandog]

Calling him a "depressing, witless ferret" leads me to believe he has a hidden agenda.

That's a bit over the line comment about the president...but he makes the point that Bush hasn't yet laid out his Iraq agenda to the country and Rick Santorium as much said the same in his MTP moment debate with his Dim opponent today.

[Dark Skies]

You've got that right. Wait until the Bush-bots get a load of this piece!

I hope there is a doctor in the house 'cause there's bound to be more than a few strokes and aneurysms.

[jwalsh07]

Of course, if you have read any history, which Bush hasn't, you will have noticed that people do not like being occupied by force. They don't like having their cities bombed. It galls them. It can, under certain circumstances (such as any circumstances) make them hostile.

I've read some history, especially WW2 history because my father and ten of my Uncles participated. We firebombed the crap out of Germany. We dropped nukes on Japan. I imagine that galled the Germans and the Japanese but the evidence is in there, killing them in great numbers and occupying their countries resulted in two stable democracies with one being a pretty good ally of those who did the killing and galling.

Now what?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"And you probably listen to ooom-pa music."
Uh oh! I listened to Big Joe last night!