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
While I can't address the "satire" part, I can comfortably refute any notion of it being "clever."
You're absolutely right!
Strike 'clever' from my post. ;^)
Aside from the usual travesties, this barfer ...
"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."
What a moron!
In SF, drug addled homeless crazies infest the streets because the local government caters to the homeless, doesnt demand they not urinate in the street, gives 'em freebies at the homeless shelter and refuses to lock them up even when they are certifiably insane and in need of institutional care!!
He blames Bush for the actions of ACLU-type ultra Liberals!!
Anyone in America who shows up at an emergency care unit will not be turned away. The US spends more on Government paid medical care than any other nation on earth.
The Mirror is a tabloid.
Toolis is an IRA sympathizer who wrote a book called Rebel Hearts which is a fawning book of profiles of 10 IRA terrorists.
So his "expertise" on terrorism consists of writing superficial puff pieces on Irish terrorists.
Little Kevin is also a screenwriter who used to live in San Francisco.
This would explain his apparent obsession with feces. I wonder if he caught "the slim" from Mark Morford?
This is the typical drivel you see on The Guardian message board. Get used to it: half of Britain hates our guts.
You forgot George Orwell...But then again, Orwell DID see the error of his ways, didn;t he?
No. Whatever he is, it is not an expert on terrorism.
What a vile little worm.
Specifically, The Mirror is a Fleet Street rag.
..and don't the Bush-haters know it!
Ivan, are you familiar with this guy?
A couple of schools of thought on this: What a schmuck to be commenting so hatefully on our Executive Branch of Government.
Little creeps in parliment like this guy must have been the driving factor that led to the rebellion 230 years ago.
And who does he think he is in the first place? Kevin Toolis oozes the socialist Euroweenie mentality that is everything anti-American. He is nothing more than a wanker hack.
Obviously he hasn't read 'Unfit for Command.'
No girly men allowed.
"walk softly and carry a big stick."
:-)
Full of fallacious crap. Where to begin? Most of our troops have been killed by roadside bombs or suicide bombers in cars, not by AK-47 slugs, so armored vests, which they now have, would not have helped in those instances. And he bemoans the fact that Bush is not on the tarmac, blubbering, when our fallen heros return.The POTUS has expressed privately to the families that he does care.Hopefully others will point out further bull replete in this ridiculous piece.
Kevin's Toolis limp is a frigging idiot.
A writer he is NOT.
The only thing he is an expert at is maintaining just enough brain function to avoid Life support machines.
If he were standing before me,I would do things to him that would give terrorists,NIGHTMARES!
Yo, Foolis. STFU !!!!!!!!!
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