What Else Will Bush Break Before He Goes?

[unhappycamper]

What Else Will Bush Break Before He Goes?
By Munir Daair
August 24 - 27 Issue

In his book Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward wrote that Colin Powel warned George Bush of the consequences of occupying Iraq. Powell called it the pottery barn rule: "You break it, you own it." But then, for a politician to take advice from a general is anathema, especially draft dodging politicians. One wonders how General John Abuzaid manages to function around Bush, Cheney, and Rice. Especially with American laser bombs falling on Lebanese children. They say blood is thicker than water ... Some blood anyway. But if you are busy killing Iraqis, killing Lebanese shouldn't bother you.

Anyway let's go back to the pottery barn rule. Three years after the invasion, America seems to have failed in Iraq. Now America has broken Lebanon. What else Bush intends to break before he leaves office is an open and frightening question. Assuming he doesn't create a crises of such magnitude that it justifies calling off or postponing the next election. After all, with a two terms limit, it is impossible for Bush to steal another election.

You think I am crazy? Under the new world order anything goes. Think about the scary London news. Granted, there might have been an attempted terrorist attack. How big? We don't know. What we do know is that it has diverted attention from Israel's atrocities in Lebanon. Nicely timed. Makes you wonder about the motives of both terrorists and Big Brother. Big terrorist and Big Brother now sound and behave so much alike that it's hard to know whom to believe. One has sleeper cells and the other sleep-deprivation cells, one uses suicide bombers the other smart bombers, both tell us "if you ain't with us, you're against us." Isn't Tony Blair the guy who claimed that Saddam could launch a WMD within 45 minutes? That lie contributed to the mass murder of 100,000 Iraqis and counting. How crazy was that? Maybe we should call him Tony B-liar. I sometimes wonder what's more idiotic. The fact that these lies are believed again and again, or the fact that the liars are elected, again and again.

Now they tell us that terrorists have tried to blow us to kingdom come. But we shouldn't be intimidated. Instead, we should just empty all of our pockets, get rid of all of our hand luggage, including your grandmother's milk of magnesia, strip whenever asked to do so, and have a pleasant flight. Yeah, sure!

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[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Breaking the heart & soul of democracy

At times I feel they have suceeded as portraying the world
as so dangerous and threatening that we will eagerly strip
bend over and cough anytime or place of their choosing.

I pray we can rediscover our heart and soul.

[zbdent]

2. several shredders and the fingers of several computer people

who refuse to wipe the hard drives ...

[Demeter]

3. His Last Target of Destruction Is the GOP

and that's ahead of schedule!

Not only that, it's a freebie! Totally unexpected, like finding a hundred dollar bill on the street.