Nicely Summed Up !!! --- 'Dear Mother - Bush Sucks'

[WillyT]

Dear Mother - Bush Sucks

By Alan Penny

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Like many families, my mother and I enjoy discussing politics. This is just something that we inevitably do when we are talking. My last phone call with her was no exception. In it, she told me that she is still undecided about who to vote for in the upcoming presidential election. According to her, the jury is still out on Iraq _ thus implying that it’s out on Bush as well.

Well yes, I suppose that in a way I agree _ it will be quite some time before we see if this invasion manages to germinate democracy in the region. But Pollyannaish dreams aside, is the jury really still out on Bush? Do we still not recognize the grievous affect of his myopic vision upon the world? My opinion, as you’ve no doubt figured out is an emphatic no. The case is closed. The verdict is in. Bush sucks.

George Bush likes to continuously repeat, in steadfastly robotic fashion, that America _ indeed the world _ is a safer place because of his invasion and occupation of Iraq. Saddam Hussein is in shackles and Iraq is now “free and sovereign” _ enough said. But is this the case? Are we really safer because of these actions? It seems to me that Mr. Bush is exhibiting some rather wishful thinking here. Apparently he’s forgotten his own argument for going to war in the first place. And I’m sorry “Duhbaya”, but bringing democracy to Iraq was not it. The battle cry of the pre-war days was Weapons of Mass Destruction. This was the only cry that could justify going to war.

The now disgraced and discredited neo-conservatives, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, knew this. So, despite all of the ambiguous evidence, they cried and they cried, played patriotic chicken with the Democrats and the press, and got their way. 18 months on, Iraq is in chaos, thousands are dead and dying, and hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars have been wasted. In addition, tens of billions of these wasted dollars are finding their way into the coffers of the previously struggling Halliburton Corporation, via a non-competitive bidding system and egregiously wasteful cost-plus contracting. Practices which for some reason Dick Cheney, the (currently) stock-option holding, former CEO of Halliburton Dick Cheney, has not spoken out against.

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Much More: http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200408/kt2004080220073754060.htm

OUCH!!!

I am now officially, an Alan Penny fan!!!

Kickin Ass here!

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[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. Penny, mentions the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans ! that......

is enough for me....thanks WillyT for the article

[WillyT]

2. Anytime !!! - This Guy Does One Hell Of A Synopsis !!!

Should be passed out as a flyer.

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Did your husband get a good night's sleep, or did they call him in from vacation???

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[WillyT]

3. *tap, tap, tap* Hello.... Is This Thing Working ???

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[Window]

4. Yikes!

Great. Thanks for sharing.

Peace

[WillyT]

5. You Are Welcome !!! - And I love This...

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And despite the failure of Bush to recollect it, this “pushback,” if you will, from the CIA, was the very reason that the neocons set up their own little intel shop in the Pentagon _ the very aptly name “Office of Special Plans.” This was the laboratory in which Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith and the rest of their merry band of neo-cons processed the bum data that convicted fugitive, Ahmed Chalabi, of the Iraqi National Congress, was feeding them. The kind of data they wanted to consume. Reinforcing the kind of decision Bush wanted to make.

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Man... does this guy post here???

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