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

[revtown]

I got here from a link on Drudge.

[Paulus Invictus]

If this dingbat Brit is representative of Euro beliefs, he's a confirmed idiot who learned nothing from his stay in the US. I'm tired of Eurotrash like this guy and other recent Euromedia attacks on the US and the Prez. Why keep posting this junk? It's beginning to sound like RAT propaganda and slander and does not uplift the conservative soul.

[deadorinjail]

You all are being intellectually dishonest, and you know it. Regardless of what you believe in terms of Bush's effectiveness or politcal bent, it's clear that he's not the brigtest bulb in the chandelier. It's knee-jerk defensive reactionary arguments like the postings above that leave free-thinkers everywhere unable to accept or believe the rest of the Conservative agenda. You're doing your own cause harm.

[soozla]

This Bozo is losing sleep over GWB?????? I beg to differ with ya pal.......check this out! THROW THIS SHRIMP ON YER BARBIE, BRUCE!

[soozla]

Sorry, link won't work......this, maybe??

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/articles/A64828-2002Jun29.html

[Incorrigible]

where has the money gone?

Ask Jon Corzine, Democrat US Senator for New Jersey. As a former Goldman Sachs partner that spent $64 Million on his campaign, I'd say he knows where the money went.

THANKS FOR THE LINK MATT!!!!!!!

[BMG]

I wonder what drugs this mental defective was on when he wrote this mindless, Bush hating, anti-American, bleeding heart liberal article? President George W. Bush has more intelligence in his toe nail clippings then this guy has in his whole body. As far as Tom Cruise is concerned, I would like to buy him a one way ticket to Australia.

[Jeff Chandler]

deadorinjail

member since July 6th, 2002

[RightWinger]

Bruce Wilson sounds like a first rate moron...he should talk!

[Gracey]

You forgot to count the many counties that went for Goron through FRAUD.... There wouldn't be much brown marks left if we corrected that "minor" issue.

[fred flinch]

He wants to know where was goverment in Enron and World Com, Globel Crossing.This was all happening under the Clinton Adm. not Bushes, Anderson did all the auditoring

[fred flinch]

He wants to know where was goverment in Enron and World Com, Globel Crossing,this was all happening under the Clinton Adm. not Bushes.

[Caipirabob]

Tom Cruise said Bush is a bad, bad man. That's enough fer me. Yup, leaving the country...

Euro-weenies are in a "snit" over US policies, they may work! Can't have that! No sir-reee...

*sigh*

Hey, if we didn't have these freaks around to annoy us, we'd never learn to appreciate the significance of being "normal".

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

amen. Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, and George Michaels are all mentioned as being Bush-Haters, yet they are hollywood deviant types with sagging careers who wouldn't be mentioned in any conversation if not for their blinding ignorance

[buffyt]

Tom Cruise likes to go rock climbing, yet finds USA terrifying... I find rock climbing terrifying!!!

[Roscoe]

They "agree with this guy 100%" after the socialist nitwit claimed that, "Twenty years ago, when I lived in Washington, the US was said to have a trillion-dollar-a-day economy..."

A trillion-dollar-a-day economy? LOL

[Roscoe]

The Electoral College chooses the President (despite what the piss-on-the-Constitution crowd wants)

[b.d.bop]

You're spot on here. This Wilson moron is just not capable of an accurate differentiation of right from wrong.

[Jim Robinson]

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

B/S. Sneakypete was suspended for seven days for excessive personal attacks and bashing religion. He's been warned and suspended many times for the same thing.