Why we should be worried about George W Bush (Euro-Aussebarf Alert!)

The (Sydney, NSW) Daily Telegraph ^ | 6.29.02 | Bruce Wilson

[mhking]

Why we should be worried about George W Bush
29jun02
THE world outside the US is now getting used to the fact Americans have a fraudulently elected nitwit as their president, but George W. Bush excelled himself this week with a "long-awaited" definitive speech on Middle East policies that stretched even the weirdest imaginations.
BRUCE WILSON in London reports:

US embassies around the world moved to "explain" the batty future Bush saw for Israel and Palestine, but nothing could disguise that the bedbug was running the White House and anything could happen next.

Hey, look. Even Tom Cruise is worried. In London this week he said he wanted his adopted kids brought up outside the USA because of what happens inside the USA. He listed terrorism and street crime, but very cogently he listed corporate crime as a reason not to bring up kids in the old US of A.

Now, Tom Cruise is not a Grade A rocket scientist. In fact, he is a Grade A Scientologist. On the whole, though, I would say he was brighter than George W. Bush (along with my neighbour's catatonic cat) and it was most intriguing that he named corporate crime as a reason not to want to grow up in America.

The WorldCom affair comes after the Enron affair while the Andersen affair simply defies belief. It has become perfectly clear that major US corporations have been running out of control, throwing billions of dollars into a kind of international financial black hole.

In vain you ask (as I tried to do), well, where has the money gone? I mean, if you back a loser at Randwick, then you know where your money went. If these companies have lost billions – $US3.8 billion in the case of WorldCom – why hasn't somebody won it? Or got it? Where has it gone? Or, more to the point, did it ever exist?

Of course it did, said the Doormouse. Otherwise, it could never have been lost and 17,000 people sacked for the lack of it. This is Alice in Wonderland stuff, capitalism rattling around like a high-velocity round in a mental vacuum. Where was government? Where was control?

Twenty years ago, when I lived in Washington, the US was said to have a trillion-dollar-a-day economy that was so strong not even government could screw it. Now, you have to ask if things have turned, that apparent fraudsters like WorldCom can screw government.

Dubya Bush seems reluctant to address these issues. He is a Texan (although not by breeding) and there they let things take their course, execute mentally deficient minors, and generally behave like good old boys, taking the Chevy to the levee.

If it were not for September 11, Bush would be in serious political trouble in America. He may be yet, in the mid-term November elections. His shocked nation rallied around him as the personification of The Flag when the atrocities stunned us all. His personal rating broke all records.

Since then, though, what? On this side of the Atlantic he is seen as a kind of strange joke. Britons try to understand him, but in Europe they simply think of him as a sort of circus act. The Middle East pronouncement was so absurd they didn't know whether to laugh or simply ask the US senior political attache over for a commiserating drink.

These concerns are based on the belief – that seems to be proven – that Washington itself is a divided city. Colin Powell, in State, is trying to plead reason over the clamouring voices in Defence, led by Donald Rumsfeld, clearly a man not always entirely in control of his senses.

Bush is listening to Rumsfeld, and other strange voices – not least the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. And, as he does, the US looks more and more to be a long way away from the rest of the world.

bruce.wilson@newsint.co.uk

[Kevin Curry]

Watch out, or I'll call in Dan Day to chastize you all severely.

Oh, rubbish! You have no power here. Be gone, before somebody drops a house on you, too.

[pariah]

Thanks, mhk. I sent Mr. Wilson the following: "Since you and the whole liberal establishment have obviously been losing points off your already-deficient IQs, I am led to believe that somewhere some people must be getting SMARTER!"

[tpaine]

It is a well established fact that you are one of the most consistent anti-freepers on this forum, roscoe.

You ALWAYS tear down constitutional principles to defend statist ones. -- And your denials of these facts are ludicrous.

- Really, I think you're kept around just to stir things up a bit. -- Sorta as a town clown.

[Roscoe]

Our host has already corrected your falsehoods.

[tpaine]

You sure spend a LOT of time smearing an 'irrelevent' philosophy, CJ.

-- Because it threatens your socialist-statist visions.

[Cultural Jihad]

Irrelevant ideologies do not enjoy human rights. Roscoes do.

[tpaine]

Our host has already corrected your falsehoods. -[roscoe lies]-

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No, -- he didn't. -- I expressed my view, -- JR his.

[tpaine]

Irrelevant ideologies do not enjoy human rights. Roscoes do.

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You wish, CJ ..

-- But we live in a free republic, where we all have human rights. -- Even you.

[Roscoe]

Your representations of his reasons for suspending Sneakypete were false, he corrected you.

Try to show a little class.

[tpaine]

Your representations of his reasons for suspending Sneakypete were false, he corrected you.

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Class? -- You have none, as is proved by your insistence that I was 'corrected'.

I posted Sneakypetes questions & 'representations', and saw no real rebuttal. -- Did you?

[Roscoe]

Give your anti-Freeping a rest.

[tpaine]

Your repetitive lies need the rest, roscoe.

[TLBSHOW]

I did how did you miss it?

[Paulus Invictus]

I am? I refuse to believe that! And as for Bush being "not the brightest bulb in the chandelier" how do you personally know that to be true? Have you studied his educational credentials and his experience as a Governor of a big State as indicators of a lack of brains? If so, what are your "facts" that lead to your conclusion? Liberals have had a field day with that drivel for more than a year, but Bush proves daily that he is well above IGore in the brains department. He's certainly above the RAT leaders that spend most of their air time lying. Bush demonstrates he is well above the Eurotrash, socialist leaders in the brains and logic departments.

Methinks you are nothing more than a free thinking liberal with no conservative values. If I'm correct, there is no way to have a reasonable discourse with a free thinking liberal.

[LowOiL]

*~~One must ponder how long can IT last~~*

To: tpaine

I've given up on you too.

1113 posted on 6/26/02 5:21 PM Central by Jim Robinson
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[panther33]

I wrote an email to Bruce Wilson that you will want to read... trust me. I must apologize for not putting it on this thread (I am a brand-new Freeper). I accidentally created my own thread at http://www.freerepublic.com/fo cus/news/712143/posts?page=6

Please read and let me know what you think.

[Cultural Jihad]

Great response, panther33!

[tpaine]

Just as I replied to JR, -- I'll rephrase it for you.

-- I can't imagine why you guys think ANYone is here at FR for your approval. -- I came here because:

"Free Republic is a place for people to discuss our common goals regarding the restoration of our constitutionally limited republican form of government."

--- Please. -- Lemme know if this is no longer so.

[panther33]

I never knew liberals could come up with so many distortions and lies in a single post. Congratulations for achieving a new record. I pray for you.