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

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

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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

[tpaine]

I agree with this guy 100% - calling VA advogado a nitwit is too kind.


BTW, sneakypete has been banned from the forum for upholding the constitutional principle about no 'religious tests' for public office.

[VA Advogado]

You guys are strange. Whatever made him think he has any obligation to "uphold" any constitutional principle here? This isn't the government. This is Jim Rob's living room and we should all abide by his rules, not some made up concept bouncing around inside your head.

[Zon]

I agree with this guy 100% - calling VA advogado a nitwit is too kind.

Now that is something I can definitely agree with -- calling a person that openly admits he's a Jack-booted thug a nitwit is far too kind.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Courtesy of Human Events

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
Al Gore Quotes,
courtesy of the Texas Lee County Republicans.

[LiberalsLie]

What happened to Bubba's posts? They were deleted.

Anyway, I wanted to reply to him about the war on terrorism being a joke.

I guess he thought FBI field agents armed with 9mm pistols and handcuffs should go 'arrest' thousands of afgahni and al quaida soldiers armed with ak-47's, rpg's, and stinger missiles? I guess when Bin Laden's guards at the cave entrance see the agents' search warrant, they'll say, "Oh ok, come on in". Or maybe it would be a coalition along with the brits. They don't carry guns but they do have some pretty dangerous clubs.

Bubba, make like a bank and have some sense. Stop mindlessly sucking down propaganda and actually think for yourself. Everything you say is unoriginal. You present no unique ideas. You are just repeating prepackaged BS, most of which is usually nothing but insults directed at the president's intelligence or american intelligence and values in general.

Just because you wear clothes made of hemp, have no understanding of basic economics, live on the campus of a liberal arts college living off your parents' wealth, and think Al Gore actually gives a damn about saving the whales, it doesn't mean you are smarter than everybody else.

I think 9/11 opened up many americans eyes to the general hypocrisy of the left, and I hope Al Gore runs in '04. I think the margin would be a little wider this time around. I think part of the reason is at one time or another after 9/11 every american asked themselves, "I wonder how Gore would've handled this?"

[tpaine]

You guys are strange. Whatever made him think he [the banned sneakypete] has any obligation to "uphold" any constitutional principle here?
This isn't the government. This is Jim Rob's living room and we should all abide by his rules, not some made up concept bouncing around inside your head. - VA asociopath -

Free Republic is a place for people to discuss our common goals regarding the restoration of our constitutionally limited republican form of government. If people have other agendas for FR, I really wish they would take them elsewhere. Thanks, Jim 226 posted on 2/7/02 4:01 PM Pacific by Jim Robinson

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As you can see, it is YOU that has made up some weird 'concept' for FR.
Take your agenda elsewhere, please.

[VA Advogado]

Some might call you a constitutional clown.

[VA Advogado]

I prefer court jester.

[tpaine]

You calling JRs request about the topic of the constitution 'clownish'?

[tpaine]

Coming from a sociopath, I'm properly devastated, rest assured.

[VA Advogado]

Coming from a sociopath, I'm properly devastated, rest assured.

Talking to yourself again?

[headsonpikes]

I feel sorry for kids like him.

They've spent 12 years or more in re-education facilities; they've been told they're incompetent to survive without 'society's aid and support; they've internalized the petty rules and self-critical political correctness slogans of the authorities, and resent that fact.

The only hope we freedomites have is that a critical mass of young people see things more or less our way. And sooner rather than later.

It's hard to assess the likelihood of that. The Republican Party fighting for the de-criminalizing of pot would help; young people detest hypocrisy--that should be our strongest ally!

Too many Republicans are secret Rooseveltians; they have conceded moral 'high ground' regarding a kind of native American socialism to the mobocrats on the left.

In any event, one can only pity this poor fatherless child, abandoned to the wolves of the state at an early age.

[LiberalsLie]

"The only hope we freedomites have is that a critical mass of young people see things more or less our way."

I am only 19 years old. I think most of the young socialists won't get anwywhere in life (unless they become hollywood stars) due to their inherent belief that someone else should provide for them rather than they provide for themselves. So I think things will work thenmsleves out.

And about native american type socialism: I think what they had going was a good thing. It was socialism. But it wasn't like the modern idea of socialism. They were like a big family, caring about eachother and providing for the good of the tribe. But they only did it because they cared about eachother. Someone shares with another person out of the goodness of their heart. You can't force kindness by an oppressive government. It just doesn't work; what it really is is theft in disguise. In the indian tribes if you became a bum and blew all your cowhides on peacepipes then you'd be kicked out of the tribe. But today in modern socialism if you become a bum you get more money! If someone wants to be in a socialist community, then I say they should start a family, but ironically enough the left is anti-family.

[NapaCA]

Bush Keeps It Clear And Simple

[cincpacpearl]

Bruce Wilson is a Moron and really, he is " irrelevent."

[cincpacpearl]

Bruce Wilson is a Moron and really, he is " irrelevent."

cincpacpearl