Rumsfeld Greets Evil! What a Mover and Shaker!
I'm only posting this to continue the thread we have begun that will surely birth the American Party --- the 3rd party that may take America over the edge to (you guessed it) --- Human Responsibility! Wha-Hoooooooo! Have at it ...
posted by Brent Sigmeth at 9/15/2005 10:11:00 PM
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Saddam, under sanctions and pressure (after having destroyed his WMD), in an unbelievable move, switched his OIL trading currency to the Euro --- that was the nail in his coffin. If you want to keep your country, don't switch from the American dollar to the Euro. We'll just spend the american worker's tax dollars and simply come n' getcha!
...and by the way ... as we sit here in this war against islamic fundamentalism/extremism, does anybody care to know that Saddam was a brutal yet secular leader? He was attempting to live out the generations of religious factions within his own borders by being heavy-handed (much like Castro). When you have a country that is divided three ways by religious beliefs, the only short-term way Saddam saw in controlling them (thus, evading cival war -- between borders that were set by the western world) was to be a brutal dictator in favor of secular social progress --- all-the-while, he had created public highways, hospitals, schools, universities, and common marketplaces. Despite his cruelties and harsh penalties, he was creating a society far beyond the stone-age human rights of one of our closest allies, Saudi Arabia. Hard to believe. I'm all up in the air, but I do know that there are plenty of middle eastern countries involved in much greater hamun rights violations than Saddam Hussein.
Does that mean we can get rid of the fundamentalist Christians?!? (sorry.... my peacemaker is having a molotov cocktail right now....)
Fundamentalism is fundamentalism is fundamentalism. It doesn't matter what underlying the beliefs are--it's all about controlling and repressing individual thought & action through rigid rules and simplistic answers to life's problems outlined by "enlightened" leaders who know better than everyone else. They claim to hold the keys to salvation. And there's always an "other" that must be struggled against and overcome.
Hmmm... you know, that sounds a lot our current political leadership.
Hear, here ... one is lead to wonder if they didn't study the power of fundamentalist leadership and use some of it to their advantage (i.e. "Senate Democrats hate people of faith" - Republican Senate majority leader Bill Frist). Duh fucking DUH. How does a population show the blasphomy of its leaders? How do you shine the light? It's gotta be bright and annoying, for sure.
As an aside (and this ain't an ego thing, 'cause we're all in this together ...), our mechanic at Cannon Auto Repair said to me on the phone today (we have one of our ailing cars in there presently), "Oh, by the way, Brent --- keep writing those letters to the editor. I really get a lot from them ... anyway, I really like them. Good job." So, that's my blue-collar-ish take on it ... these people are workers and they're starting to get it (wages not keeping up at all with inflation, etc.) .... but, it's an uphill battle. Mostly, it takes humility (or humanism or whatever). In the end, being a human gives us an edge --- it's these carzy fundamentalist monkies that have had the ear of the regular folks -- the stereotypical democratic/liberal/progressive battle. If we ever gain them again (as we have in the past) we can't lose them again.
Okay, I'll stop now. Bed times. Sorry. BUT REALLY!!!!
Where's my reverend?
sleep tight sweet prince
I'm for folks ... against idealogical monsters. Sleep well.
(could my "for" ever be perceived as pandering? I don't think so; I like folks, dammit).
Hey, instigator here.
I gotta run to a wedding today, which will be an interesting contrast to the events of last month.
Good to see the fulminating brew of the Party starting.
Before anyone lays down specifics as to "stands", perhaps there is another approach? Every stand you take causes some folks to tune out. Is there a way for a "party" to spread itself around? Have many "stands" under one tent?
It's just that our current system is a filter that inherently makes folks either vote for someone they don't fully agree with or else drop out of voting altogether....the "party" acts as a screen, and a lot of us get strained right on through, and have no one to feel proud of voting for.....
Hmmm, yeah, if were going to play the Game, my goal is to tear it down, make people re-assess the Game itself....which is my regular schtick.
Take care, all!
Looks like there's already an American Party, or actually several of them (state parties). Hmmmmm. Google "American Party".
Hmmm, America Party? How 'bout we take it back to the source, Amerigo Party. 'Course, then we're all conquistador-lovers.
I'm leaning towards the F*ck That Sh*t! Party myself, these days....
Some of you may follow this blog, but just in case you missed it. From Steve Gilliard's "The News Blog."
The Spineless President
Bush after New Orleans
The Spineless President
by SteinL [Subscribe]
Mon Sep 19th, 2005 at 06:38:02 PDT
It's been touched upon before, yet deserves to be revisited, now that we are seeing the aftermath of Katrina wreaking havoc with the White House.
This image will have seared itself into the eyes of many, following the president's speech last week.
It is far removed from how the president likes to see himself, as the man in charge. Yet we've seen repeated evidence that he is not in charge. That positions he states are immovable suddenly shift, once Cheney and his cronies get to explain things to him.
Or when his pollsters sense a shift in public opinion.
Bush, who would never nationbuild and never use the US military to engage in dangerous adventures in foreign lands - did exactly that, once he became president.
Bush is gutless. He has no vision. He lacks the skills and abilities to create positive change.
We term politicians visionary when their goals and ambitions turn into action and tangible progress. They are delusional when everything they state they wish to do crumbles into dust, or ends in calamity.
This is what he wants to be.
Trouble is, he's always AWOL when it comes to the crunch.
And then he wants others to sort things out for him. The reason no one is made accountable in the Bush presidency is because his officials aren't working for him, he is their prop, and they are doing what they damn well please. Rumsfeld would have been given a gun and been told to shoot himself in any other nation by now - he's still there, ruining the military and the reputation of the U.S. abroad.
A man who manages to write two conditionals, "I think" and "I may", as well as wondering whether he could possibly go to the bathroom, in a short note to his Secretary of State - is not in command, he is being commanded.
He didn't go to Vietnam, and his administration has spent more time trying to bury the truth of TANG than it ever spent on Homeland Security after 9/11. Rather than take charge of his destiny, back when he was with the TANG, he tried to shirk his duty and has lied about it since.
And that's the truth about Bush - the shirker of duty. That's why we have these record-length vacations. He really doesn't want the responsibilities of the job he applied for, just the perks. He's deeply uncomfortable with the duties and responsibilities of his office, which is why he is so disengaged.
There is no "there" there with this man. Nothing solid, nothing that a nation can build upon and believe in. Everything is spun and twisted and turned upside-down.
He was famously braindead for seven minutes, following the second plane crashing into the WTC - and then he went hop-scotch around the nation on AF-ONE. He was not in command, never was. Turns out you can't run a nation on the basis of a brief Bullhorn-moment - there has to be some substance, not just the luck of the occasion.
He allowed Bin Laden to get away at Tora Bora (and again his people spent a lot of time lying to the American voters about that, before last year's elections).
He went into Iraq, without a plan, without a clue and without a mission - other than thinking it would be like taking candy (oil) from a kid, "'cause the U.S. got all this military might, see."
And once things went south in Iraq, he lost the courage to be a War President, through both the good and the bad. Churchill, whom he likes to compare himself to (or his speech writers) led through both the good and the bad. Bush only wants the good.
Sure, once Baghdad "fell", Bush could pull his Mission Accomplished carrier strut - but when the truth of Iraq became apparent, he tried to pretend there were no deaths, imposed a ban on showing the coffins of returning soldiers killed in action, restricted access to military hospitals for the press and allowed his officials to lie and lie about the true state of the war in Iraq.
And still the soldiers go without necessary armor. Churchill would have seen to it that they had the armor they needed, the moment the problem was apparent.
They lied about Abu Ghraib. They lied about Guantanamo. They lied about the weapons used against civilians in Iraq. They lied about the treasure of Iraq, and how it was stolen, by the CPA and its cronies. They lied about the Weapons of Mass Destruction.
And they kept on lying and conniving.
A small plane approaches Washinton D.C. The capitol and White House are evacuated. No one tells the president, because the president isn't in command, Cheney is. Cheney is told. Cheney is brought to safety. Bush is out on his bike.
Then Katrina comes.
And Cheney may either have been told to stay out of the picture (there are rumors of a falling-out following the Washington D.C. incident) or else there was some "minor surgery" that Cheney had to undergo and that can explain his absence.
Bush's handlers were gone - he was on an extended bathroom break, so to speak. Had no one to turn to for instructions, and chose to stick with the plan, while New Orleans and Mississippi drowned. Bush with a cake. Bush taking credit for the end of the war against Japan. Bush with the guitar.
And then the shirt sticking to the president's back, as he hauls himself back into the largest CEO perk on the planet - that image spells the end of the Shirker in Chief.
He's been revealed.
The White House carted in generators to light the president and his backdrop, to stagecraft a comeback for their necessary prop. Trouble was, they forgot to run an electricity cord to the clock in the tower behind Bush. All through his speech the clock stood where it stopped when electricity to the city was interrupted. Still does. 6:38 the clock says.
What better image of the failings of the Bush presidency? They throw all kinds of resources at the moment, but nothing actually happens, nothing actually gets going. Only the presidential photo-op takes place - but there is no "there" there - just a lot of noise in the foreground, as the treasury is being looted, the planet is raped and soldiers and civilians die, to carry out the delusions of a clueless and adrift presidency.
posted by Steve @ 1:20:00 PM
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