wow... good article on Bush the TRAITOR

[trekbiker]

Here's what the first President Bush wrote about that in his memoirs:

"Trying to eliminate Saddam would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. There was no viable exit strategy we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

My brothers and sisters, it is just too darn bad his son can't read!

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=15876&mode=nested&order=0

[rock]

1. Too darn bad his son can't read!

Or listen.

[zbdent]

4. Or throw a decent punch

at Daddy.

Or show up for his constitutional duty that he took the oath for a couple/three decades ago . . .

[mediaman007]

7. But he does have this "intuition"

I have to say that Bush* is an expensive date.

[aquart]

2. Seems like George hates Daddy's guts.

Well, of course. Poppy had all those great jobs (and mistresses) keeping him away from home, leaving George prey to bitter Barbara. You don't forget that.

[fryguy]

3. great article

really takes bushco to task on how they're ruining the country - both the US and Iraq....

[Disturbed]

5. A "higher" father

W didn't talk to the earthly old man about Iraq. He talked to that
invisible old man that W likes to refer as the Almighty. Why do most Jews and Christians assume that god is a male?

[Technowitch]

6. Because that's what Yahweh was.

Before he got promoted to "God Of All And Everything Through Infinite Time" he was simply the war god of one particular set of tribes in a region of the world almost infested with different deities and belief systems.

Took them a long time to get around to saying all those "other" gods prohibited in their 1st Commandment were not gods at all, but rather "evil demons" -- presumably created by their Invisible Cloud Guy himself for reasons that no theologian has explained adequately. At least, in my opinion.

Besides making their god male, these folks also seem mighty fond of punishment and vengeance.

Anyway, wouldn't it be interesting to imagine a world where a Goddess-worshipping faith took hold?

Right, right, I know... it's always easier to destroy than to create. Another of our 'weaknesses' is that most of us are perfectly willing to tolerate them if they just leave us alone, whereas they grant us no such similar concession.

Atheists, avowed agnostics, and pagans: Unelectable anywhere in America. All hail "democracy."

-Technowitch