I believe that Bush's plan is to create as much chaos, civil wars,

[KlatooBNikto]

disorder and mayhem among the countries of the Middle East as possible. Democracy, Freedom and other pipe dreams are just that, pipe dreams. Our Press, always ready to toe the line, have swallowed this BS just like they have swallowed the lies about the War on Terror.

Meanwhile Bush, Cheney and the rest of the gang get to loot Iraq.

Life is fun when you get to fool all the people all the time.

[punpirate]

1. There's an old saying...

... about opportunity being in the midst of chaos. To some degree, I think that's true of both Afghanistan and Iraq.

I found a curious website a few weeks back, a blog set up by someone working for a subcontractor in Iraq for some contract let to, I think, IBM. The fellow had been describing the house where they stayed most of the time and where they had their offices. He mentioned that the house was on a street where a number of officials in the government lived (he didn't say, but implied, that these were US officials) and that some evenings, when things were quiet, they would have a sort of cocktail hour in the street.

He said that one official said that "things were going precisely according to plan," and that the plan described to him was "brilliant."

I've wondered how that jives with the increasing number of press reports which describe virtually no planning for the aftermath to invasion. It might simply have been the plan, all along, to create so much chaos that the official and unofficial looting could go virtually unnoticed.

Why that would be "brilliant," I don't know. I suppose that's a matter to be left to interpretation....

[libhill]

2. It would be brilliant

to you, if you were a greedy, self serving rat bastard Republican with no regard for the sanctity of human life. Let the children of the poor and the working class do all of the fighting, and don't sweat the innocent Iraqis who have had to suffer.

[HereSince1628]

3. I believe Bush actually said that in the run up to war

I think se was trying to say that he wanted to disrupt terrorist activity in SW Asia, but in a Freudian slip just said something like it's our job to create chaos.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. To break the US and

to bring our standard of living down to that of China and India! When the wages in this country reach the same level as the wages in those countries, where they've shipped the jobs, then jobs will start to be plentiful here again. It's called "The New World Order"! The super wealthy people behind the neocons, want to turn back the standard of living to 1900, back before unionization created the middle class! Bush's "ownership society" he was talking about, means back to the days of the company store, your little kids working 14 hours a day without any hope of ever getting an decent education and the company controlling every move you make and every thing you do, or have. Bush's "ownership society" means only two classes! The super rich and the poor working class like it was in 1900.

They HATE FDR, simply because he helped create the middle class and they have plotted to bring the middle class down since the 30s... Two words describes Bush and his enablers...Fascist Pigs! The Bush KKKlan are HOGS, when it comes to MONEY and above all POWER over the working class citizen's life!

[libhill]

5. But yet -

I'm sure we'll be just fine working for J.B. Scumsucker for .25 cents a day. Just shout Praise the Lord and Gawd Bless America twenty times a day, and everthang'll be all right. Don't be like them thar commnist Demmycrats what hate America, just cuz they thank they deserve a decent standard of living. An' if our womenfolks an' children get hungry, them good Republican fellers can set up the Ten Commandments fer ya to look at, down thar to the county seat.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Bush's plan is great for the 1% that got the huge tax cuts!

The other 99% got the shaft! Even though some are too damned stupid to admit the truth! I don't think Bush would have stood a chance in Hell in November, if Blackwell and Diebold hadn't delivered him! Gawd didn't have a damned thing to do with Bush "WINNING" either selection! It was GOPer Gangsters who turned the trick for sir smirks-a-lot!

"Morality my arse!

[acmejack]

7. And they are doing a fine job of it

We're hearing more and more about how we need to "compete" with the workers overseas. Michael Dell actually played a big part in starting the exportation of technical jobs, including my own. Got hold the line on costs, ya know, I only got $18B. Oh and by the way thanks for working your ass off building this company and don't let the door hit you in the ass...

oh btw, those stock options you got, forget it, they're worthless!

[Hubert Flottz]

10. The GOP has been trying to bust the unions in the US and to

lower the standard of living, ever since FDR saved us from the robber barons, who BTW, have ALWAYS totally controlled the GOP! Every time a Republican is in the WH the country goes to hell, for all but the 1% in the top income bracket! It must be some really LAZY BASTARDS who just don't want to work, that puts GOPers like the Bushies and Reagan in the WH, because, there sure as hell isn't EVER any work that pays a decent income, when the GOP is in the WH!

Recessions and Depressions, that's how the GOP has "FIXED THINGS" every time, since US Grant! Go look at the record! Democrats have always put the US on it's feet and then the GOP always comes along and pulls the rug out from under working class Americans! The GOP has some Gall, to call we democrats, UNPATRIOTIC! All they've ever done for the country is to steal it blind and then leave it broke when they get fired for their ineptitude and greed!

GOP = Greedy Overbearing Pigs!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Interesting. That explains too the recent reports that some of

the bombs are planted by us.

[libhill]

8. Even with the best intentions

which we all know are not part of the B.F.E.E. agenda, I don't think democracy will ever find a home in the Middle East. This is a region that has known nothing but monarchy and totalitarianism from the earliest times, Sargon 1st on down to today.