Morford: Because Dubya Said So!

[kskiska]

Because Dubya Said So!
Why prolong this insidious war? Gouge the economy? Rape the environment? Only one retort left

(snip)

Oh but here's Dubya, in an AA-grade bout of denial, summing up the entire point quite nicely: "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda is because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda."

See? That's all you need to know. There was a connection because I say there was a connection. We stomped into war for justifiable reasons because I say there were justifiable reasons. Nearly 1,000 U.S. soldiers have died for my oily and ultraviolent petrochemical corporate cronies because I say they should die. End of story and off to bed now, you little punkass American suckers.

And lo, "Because I said so" spreads like an ugly rash through BushCo's increasingly teetering, imploding administration, as they desperately cling to any tattered shreds of whatever the hell it was that they claimed was the original reason that they shoved this nation into an economic tailspin and launched us into a brutal, violent, unwinnable war that, by most every measure, we've already lost.

Why continue this hideous, bloody invasion that is failing on every front? Because we said so. Why continue gouging the economy like pigs in a trough? Because we said so. How can raping the Clean Air Act and increasing logging in national parks and rolling back 30 years of environmental progress and dissing the Kyoto treaty and molesting the planet in the name of massaging the testicles of your corporate cronies in Big Oil and Big Industry possibly be healthy for the planet? Because we said so.

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[Cocoa]

1. awesome

It is the new Bush doctrine. Screw proof. Screw validation. Screw the U.N. and screw Europe and screw your damn 9/11 commission and screw every hunk of lingering logic and humanitarian reasoning on the planet and screw, finally, the notion that we need to justify our actions to anyone, least of all the dumba-- American public, you who've swallowed every lie so far like Jenna swallows her 10th Coors Light.

:wow:

[ewagner]

2. The sad, sad truth is here

Because I said so. It is the final comeback line. It is the only line that still holds, given how we have been awash in so many outright lies and fabrications and bogus Orange Alerts and flagrant misprisions it would make Richard Nixon cheer. It is the last twitch of Dick Cheney's political sneer, the darkening blackness in Rummy's eyes, the last spasm of Condi Rice's comatose credibility, the only pathetic shield BushCo has left.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. W says: nyeah nyeah-nyeah nyeah nyeah !!!

What a candy-ass pussy.


:evilfrown:

[Vitruvius]

4. Der fuhrerprinzip: if the Fuhrer says it's so, that makes it so.

The Nazis believed it -- and so do the Rethugs w.r.t. their Leader.

P.S: 'fuherprinzip' is the German for 'Leader-principle'.

[Richardo]

5. Solipsism: Mark Crispin Miller examines this in the "Bush Dyslexicon"

Examples:

"When I was young and careless, I was young and careless"
"I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man."
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe—I believe what I believe is right."
"It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce."
"Home is important. It's important to have a home."
"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it."
"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."

Ego-driven, no?

[silverweb]

6. The bottom line.

The mark of a true authoritarian despot, parental or otherwise, is that attitude which declares, "Because I said so!"

May Karma bite all RW despots very, very hard precisely where it hurts the most!

On edit: Morford is a god. I was worried about him for a little while, there, but he's got his mojo back! :D

[struggle4progress]

7. Mr. Morley sounds a bit testy. I think many of us are feeling testy.

It's just about time for the left to start letting folks know that we're really NOT going to stand for any more of this @#$%.