Posted on 09/07/2004 9:56:13 AM PDT by wazoo1031
PRESIDENT GEORGE W BULLSH*T Sep 7 2004
Kevin Toolis
PRESIDENT George W Bush is proud to be a Texan. So no doubt he can recognise the smell that now fills the halls of the White House.
It's the same smell that wafts out of the mouths of every one of his spokesmen, from creepy Vice President Dick Cheney to film star buddy Arnie The Terminator.
And it's a smell that is emitted by Bush himself, every time he delivers his set piece on why he should be re-elected as president.
It's the stink of, well, I'm sorry, there's no other word for it... bullsh*t. Plain, old-fashioned verbal manure.
No lie is too outrageous to be spun. No truth is too sacred to besmirch.
When I first tuned in to the Republican National Convention last week, I thought I'd hit the wrong channel and caught the party convention of loony North Korean dictator Kim Jong II, whose robotic underlings hail him as a living god while half the population starves.
New York, Pyongyang, it all came from the same propaganda song sheet...
The Republicans told us about how great a leader ol' "Bushie" is. How wise, how wonderful, how terrific it would be for the world if only he were allowed to reign for ever!
It was all lies spun by the rich and powerful to fool the people and hide the disastrous record of the most dangerous, just plain stupid presidency the world has ever known.
The first, and biggest, lie is Bush's favourite - that America needs him as Commander-in-Chief to fight the War on Terror.
"I will defend America every time," he twangs.
But, of course, when Bush really did have the chance to risk his own life - rather than other people's lives - to defend the US, it was a different story.
Both Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry were young men in the 1970s, when the Vietnam War was raging.
Unlike Bush, Kerry volunteered and fought and killed for his country in the dangerous waters of the Mekong Delta. He was awarded three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star.
BUSH, a rabid coward, slunk off for guard duty with the Texas Air National Guard in some patsy little job his daddy's rich pals provided.
Bush spent most of his "war" drunk, partying with other spoiled rich kids. No one ever saw him in uniform and the only way he risked his neck was pouring too much beer down it.
But like conservatives everywhere, Bush and the Republicans have only a passing acquaintance with the truth.
With the aid of Karl Rove, his chief attack dog in the White House, Bush has turned Kerry's heroism into cowardice and his own spinelessness into silence.
Yet Bush remains a coward even now. Yesterday, seven US Marines died in Fallujah. The bodies of those young men will soon be shipped to America for burial. But the man who sent them halfway across the world to die won't be there to welcome these fallen heroes home.
Alone, of all American presidents, "Bushie", the great Commander-In-Chief, does not like to be photographed close to the dead reminders of his failures.
Instead of comfort, he gives the families of the bereaved the cold shoulder. Yet many of those soldiers would not be dead in the first place if they had the proper armoured vests and equipment to stop an AK-47 round - the favoured weapon of the Iraqi insurgents.
Scandalously, 87 per cent of the US military's Humvees (High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles) still do not have proper protection and 40,000 troops don't have effective flak jackets.
In desperation, some soldiers' families were forced to spend US$1,500 (£930) on the special plating needed to protect their loved ones.
Some Commander-in-Chief.
Lie No.2 comes from Bush's own twisted mouth... "I am running for president with a clear and positive plan to build a safer world," he says.
Yet Bush has waged a disastrous and unnecessary war in Iraq that has removed the ageing, patently useless Arab dictator Saddam Hussein and multiplied the threat of Islamic terrorism a thousandfold.
Al-Qaeda has spread its nihilistic brand of terrorism across the world, from Bali to Madrid, from London to the slaughterhouse of Beslan. Bush has trashed the world economy, sent oil prices rocketing, been responsible for the deaths of 20,000 Iraqis - and more than 1,000 US and British troops - and failed to capture either Osama bin Laden or Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
If that was the plan so far, God save us from four more years.
Dangerously, despite the catastrophe of Iraq, Bush still has his "axis of evil" eye on the overthrow of the Syrian and Iranian regimes - a surefire recipe for global warfare.
But for all the victims overseas, Bush has also added more at home.
Two million Americans have lost their jobs while Bush, the so-called fiscal conservative, has drained the Treasury with profligate tax cuts for the richest one per cent of the population.
The US government is now spending $400billion (£250bn) more each year than it earns. Bush's "tax reforms" - giveaways to his rich friends - left millionaires £62,500 ($100,000) a year better off but gave working families less than $800 (£500). These figures sound abstract... until you see the cruelty of Bush and the poverty of America.
In downtown San Francisco, for instance, close to the rich financial district, poor sick people who should be in hospital lie in the street, in scenes reminiscent of the slums of Calcutta.
A total of 42million Americans, 15 per cent of the population, have no health insurance.
THOUSANDS of children also go to bed hungry, while millions of others have been brainwashed into eating junk food that has turned the US into a nation of Mr Blobbys.
"We are making progress and there is much to do," says Bush. And if he is re-elected, there sure will be a lot more death, destruction and tax cuts to be handed out.
A lie told boldly, amid the razzmatazz of a party convention, and then circulated by countless flunkies, is still a lie.
We all know who and what George W Bush represents - the rich and the mean-hearted.
And the simple truth is that he is the worst president the United States has ever had. What's more, he's a danger to the rest of the planet as well.
Kevin Toolis is a writer and expert on terrorism
I'll say.
I've got a handful of friends-- including one close friend-- who have died in training accidents flying military jets.
I think everybody who calls Bush's service into question should understand how dangerous it is to simply fly a military jet in peacetime.
The best part of November 3rd will be listening to these girly-men shrieking and soiling their lace drawers. ;)
The editor tells us this at the end, although there is not one scintilla of evidence in the article to justify either claim.
Are we sure that this is not some sort of clever satire?
AIDS dementia.
Actually, I was so mad when I read this, that I kinda went off and replied to the Mirror's mail. Gee, you think they will print it?
Simply put, Kevin Toolis' vitriolic and hate-filled tirade against George W. Bush is nothing but the idiodic rambling of a left-wing lunatic. Where are your facts? Can you back up your grade-school accusations? How much is the Kerry campaign paying you? Where the hell do you get off? Did you happen to go to the PoundSaver School of Journalism? You're not American, so don't judge our president unless you have American blood running in your veins and have lived on American soil, you pompous jerk! So much for British journalism striving to be objective, fair and balanced. If this smear campaign is allowed by your press, you are even more pathetic than our liberal-loving-leftist media. By the way, stop painting conservatives with such a broad brush, you moron. In your bashing of conservatives, you failed to point out that John Kerry is a billionaire, and the Democratic Party is made up of a bunch of extremely wealthy Hollywood idiots who have "a passing acquaintance" with reality and use their money too push their Communist/Socialist agenda down ordinary American's throats. Why don't you just change your last name to Stalin? God forbid that terrorists strike again, either in America or Britain, but you can be assured that George W. Bush will not hand the situation over to the United Nations, he will act to prevent the act in the first place, whereas John Kerry just wants to wait until an attack, and then consult with the French before taking any action. I could go on and on disputing your ridiculous accusations, but I have better things to do.
Uhh.........kevin, I fart in your general direction.
Kevin, you know what I like about your article? NOTHING
PS you look funny too
I have to wonder what credentials this doofus actually has that qualifies him as an expert. Has he ever served with any government/military intelligence or counter-terrorism unit? It appears that the only thing he may be qualified to expound on would be the long term effects of a lack of personal hygiene.
A normal 12 year old would be embarrassed to put his name to this witless twaddle.
I wonder what this vulgarian's "expert" credentials consist of.
The epitome of the grade-school taunt "You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny."
Surely he jests, when the democRat convention was full of military satire, calling kerry a war hero and all.
His expertise probably consists of taking out his John Thomas and hiding in the produce aisle to terrorize the children.
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