I got this nauseating piece of propaganda from a friend today, who, as it happens, hates Bush. But, like many Republicans, she believes that the "speech" contains a lot of truth, especially as it was sent to her by a National Guardsman.
The GOP is able to sway people with seeminly honest and folksy type garbage as is posted below in the box.
First, though is my answer (which I've decided for the sake of friendship, not to send to my firend) because your first impulse on reading the "speech" will be to stop almost immediately. And I put a lot of time and effort into my reply. :D
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Don't worry. He'll never give this speech.
While there is no doubt that he would deny that he had any part in any of the anti-constitutional and civil law breaking that SHOULD have resulted in impeachment for him, Cheney and most of the cabinet, it doesn't change the fact of those impeachable acts.
But he won't give this speech or any other speech announcing his resignation.
He enjoys power way too much. And he doesn't give a flying leap or even a stumble off a shallow curb about what WE THE PEOPLE think or want.
But even if he didn't so love his position and did care about us, he still would never give this speech.
He isn't articulate enough to even read it!
(Just my opinion, but, no matter who sent it to you, it is a bunch of bad propagandistic dribble. I understand a whole lot better than the author of this piece apparently does "what is really going on" and it ain't what's best for this country or the world. It is about lining the pockets of Bush and his cronies at the expense of the American people AND the rest of the world.)
As for the rest of the speech, a lot of it is just lies. We have more homeless than at any time since the Great Depression. Many of those homeowners mentioned in the "speech" are hanging on to there homes with their finger tips. Loads of them are facing foreclosure due the unlawful predatory lending policies such as sub prime mortgage loans.
Unemployment numbers are low? Tell that to the millions of people (including yourself) who are under employed in jobs that are way below their abilities (and education) because the Bush admin did nothing to stop (and actually encouraged) the exportation of the best paying jobs in this country. And when the workforce changed from manufacturing jobs to computer and IT jobs, those were then also out-sourced. And even that is not enough. Corporations are demanding and getting from the Bush Admin. more and more HB-1 visas so they can import lower paid employees from out of country. They do this by using deceptive advertising of jobs and then finding any and all reasons to discount the applications of US citizens.
Remember when one job was enough to support a family (and families were larger then). Then in the eighties and nineties, both husband and wife had to work to support smaller families. Now, it has come to both husband and wife have to work two (or more) jobs to support the even smaller families.
("Welcome to Walmart!" or "Would you like fries with that?")
Well, yeah. It never really was "blood for oil." It never was a war to ensure cheap oil prices at all. It was a war meant to enrich the military industrial complex (KBR, Halliburton, the Carlyle Group, etc) as well as the oil cartels (Exxon Mobil, etc)
If anyone really believes now that the Iraq war was about securing a source of cheap oil, then that person hasn't been paying attention to oil prices (or anything else) for the last nearly eight years.
And don't give me this 'Bush Lied; People Died' crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.
I love this one! There were attempts (not reported in the US media ... and I'll grant you that the media doesn't tell us the truth. They've been cheerleaders for Bush from the beginning) to plant weapons of mass destruction evidence in Iraq. But at least one of those attempts to plant nuclear weapons evidence in Iraq was stymied by Covert Agent Valerie Plame and her anti-nuclear proliferation group in the CIA... (We all know what happened to Valerie Plame, albeit the official reason for her outing was because her husband told the truth about Niger and Yellow Cake Uranium.)
When those attempts failed, Bush had no choice but to blame the "faulty intelligence" for the lack of WMDs. He certainly wasn't going to admit that he lied about the intelligence. Remember the Yellow Cake Uranium again? Intelligence had already discounted that "evidence" months before Bush made it a center piece of his State of the Union address. That piece of "intelligence" had been pulled from a speech of Bush's three months before because it was patently false.
As for that unique enemy, it has been around far longer than the Bush Admin. It was active (even against the US) back in the 1970's. (Munich, TWA hijacking, and many, many more instances back then. Many of the aims are the same as then. The difference now is that religion now has a more prominent stage in its actions than it did then.
But the same could be said about the response of our government, too. Religion in this country is not a quiet personal relationship with whatever deity on chooses to believe or not believe in. It is a public declaration of intent very similar to those who oppose us, just using different religions.
One never WINS a war of ideas using guns, bombs, and land mines. That only causes maiming, death, psychological maiming, and a hardening of the beliefs of the people who are being maimed and killed.
There have always been people willing to die for their beliefs. Always. Joan of Arc. Nathanial Hale ("I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."), to name two.
Then, there is this one.
When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor.'
This is an out and out lie. Bush and his gang were telling us it would be a walk in the park. Three months after it started, he told us it was over. The long and fight bit was about terrorism... and that wasn't at the beginning. It was much later.
Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.
Oh PLEEEAASE! The New York Times was the loudest voice supporting Bush in the run up to the war. And they killed or delayed news stories that probably would have destroyed Bush's chances for reelection until after the 2004 elections.
As for supporting a politician who opposes Bush's plans for the world being aid and comfort to the enemy, GIVE ME A BREAK! This country was founded on freedom of thought, belief, religion, and political speech. Stating one's beliefs by supporting a politician whose beliefs mirror one's own is not FedExing a grenade launcher to an enemy. It is being a good citizen.
As for the rest, what complete balderdash. I've been very disappointed in Pelosi, but I would much rather have her as President than Bush or Cheney.
And since I wouldn't even kick George Bush's ass using my own foot or the foot of anyone I cared about, I certainly would never kiss his ass.
I'll leave that for those who have so willingly drunk the cyanide laced FlavorAid (Kool Aid if don't remember FlavorAid or Jonestown).
Whether you love him or hate him, this is pretty good...........
If Bush resigned today, this is what his speech would be.....
Normally, I start these things out by saying 'My Fellow Americans', not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.
I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution, let me assure you: There's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.
The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world, or what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.
Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that's despite record numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we're mentioning minorities, I'll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't sink in.
Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. We face real threats in the world. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.
Don?t give me this 'blood for oil' crap. If I were trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don't give me this 'Bush Lied; People Died' crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.
Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Clinton established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?
You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them.
That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fig ht. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor.'
Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.
Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.
In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet; it just isn't on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol.
I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and has a Cat 5 hurricane approaching.
I could say more about your idiotic belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.
So, I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream of) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.
Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too.
That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it - you can have her. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.
So that's it. God bless what's left of America. Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you - kiss my ass!
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