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

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.

Boy, I miss FreeRepublic for couple of months and look at all I've missed!! Thanks for the tip, Teacher! Let me give it a try:

(From Post #121 by redfish1) Let me guess. You are white and a Christian right? What a shocker!

Why, yes! I am a faithful Christian conservative and happen to be white. You are very good.

One of the big problems with the reactionary right is your collective unwillingness to proclaim who you really are. Why not cleans [sic] your soul panther man and admit your bigotry, rasict [sic] views, [and] callous indifference to those who could not compete in the American style game called "the strongest win".

I am insulted. I am not a bigot, I am not a racist, and I do feel for those who have it rough. How can you make such baseless claims?

(Psss!! It's "the strongest survive" or "survival of the fittest." Oh well, you are wrong any way you look at it!)

Come on panther man....be a man and admit you think whites are superior and that Christianity is the only correct religion. I dare you to stand up for what you believe.

I will tell you what I do think. I believe that all men are created equal by our Father, and I do believe that the only way into Heaven is to accept the Lord Jesus as your Savior. However, if you ask the Lord for forgiveness for your sins and misconceptions, He will grant it to you. I will stand up for that which I have just stated, for that is what I truly believe.

He can be blamed by getting and keeping us in a war we shouldn't even be in!!!

You mean the war John Kerry voted for along with the majority of his political party's congressmen?

Was Kosovo a war we should have been in? If so, explain why.

Clinton was not my favorite Prez. but he did have the highest IQ of any sitting Prez on record,

If that's so, it was never evident. The guy didn't even know which hole a cigar goes in or what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

as well as actually assisting in setting us up with a surplus of several trillion dollars.

Oh, really? Like he had control over spending. Please explain what exact clinton policies set us up with such a surplus?

G.W. has the lowest IQ of any sitting Prez.

Please keep believing this it is the essence of why the Democrats are doomed to lose. But if it makes you feel good to fantasize about this, by all means, enjoy it while it lasts.

(somewhere in the neighborhood of a lead pencil.You KNOW #2)

Now, you know that's a lie. But I expect that from you.

and with his Third Crusade for the holy grail against the Muslim Devils,

You mean the individuals who were responsible for incinerating 3,000 human beings of various nationalities, the ones who send their fellow muslim's kids to commit suicide and provide the explosives, the ones who enslave their fellow citizens and cage their women, the ones who gas thier own citizens, imprison the children of political dissidents and reluctant scientists, the ones who think soccer stadiums are for lopping off poeople's hands and feet, and the ones who get their rocks off making videos of people they torture and decapitate in order to use the tape for recruitment?

He now has us back in a defict to Surpass Ronald Reagan's.

Please explain how he managed to do that. Also explain what happens when an economy grows and with it, revenues? And explain why congress has no role in creating deficits when they waste our money on silly things, fool's errands and ponzi schemes?

I was a Reagan republican

Oh, quit telling lies. No Reagan Republican would throw his lot in witha guy who was cuddly with the North Vietnamese and Jane Fonda and who told such lies about his fellow soldiers.

and now I am a VETERAN

Just now, huh?

who supports John Kerry (you know the guy who really fough in Vietnam, and won those silly things for bravery, I think they call them MEDALS of MILITARY HONOR and BRAVERY!!!!!)...

The one who told the world he had committed war crimes? The one who thought so highly of his medals that he let the world believe he threw them over the fence? The one who hung out with a group that seriously entetained a proposal to assassinate US leaders? The one who voted against the very weapons systems we have found most useful today? The one who couldn't find the time to attend an intelligence briefing because hewas too busy getting briefed by an attorney who stole classified US documents concerniing terrorism and took notes out of the national archives by concealing them in his pants? The guy who gets his advice from a wannabe-Frenchman who thought his own trip to Niger was the definitive statement on the matter of uranium sales and yet he failed to get intel on that itty bitty problem that Libya and Qadeer Khan had also gone shopping there while he was asking around about Iraq? The Kerry who sucked up to Vietnam to help get his relative a good deal on real estate? The guy who claimed he met with foreign leaders when the closet thing to a leader he'd met with publicly was also the head of Sein Fein, of the terrorist IRA fame? The guy who put himself in for a medal after being turned down on his first purple heart? The guy who has three purple hearts but never spent a day in the hospital? The guy who spent more time serving North Vietnam than he ever spent serving the US Navy? The guy who's tied to Cabrera the smuggler?

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