Good column in the Washington Dispatch today

[hangloose]

His point comes out at the end of the article

Acts of God Versus Acts of George W. Bush
Commentary by David Rozelle
January 4, 2005


George W. Bush sleeps like a baby these days. Never much of a thinker, our president’s freeze-dried ideology has spared him the task of thinking up and writing down New Year’s resolutions. His goals stand as propounded – deep-rooted in his fallow mind by November’s shallow election victory.

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But what about the “lesser” half of this president’s fellow citizens -- those of us who didn’t vote for the man’s coronation? It appears that we can either go along with George II or go to hell. There will be no calling Bush to account for his policies. The late Flip Wilson, a popular comedian, used to duck accountability by quipping, “The Devil made me do it.” Everyone laughed. George Bush, an Evangelical Christian, declares, “God made me do it,” and at least half of us quake.

Not even during the aftermath of devastating tidal waves does George W. break his clueless, dogmatic stride. The media reports, for instance, that the president first had announced he’ll set aside a Scroogian 30 million dollars for victims’ relief -- this on the heels of an announced 40 million “donated” by corporations to pay for his inaugural balls in January. (Let the good times roll in tie-and-tails D.C., while a tsunami rolls over Asia’s poor.) Where’s the moral balance in all this? Where’s the “compassion,” neoconservative or otherwise. Where’s the sense of decency?

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In the wake of the murderous tsunami, it will never occur to George W. Bush to ask himself the difference between an “act of God,” as some have called the Asian calamity, and an “act of George,” as a friend has called the ongoing catastrophe in Iraq. Although 100,000 innocent lives have been taken by both phenomena, it is at the ghastly number of dead where the similarities break down.. For instance, the Iraq War is, without question, a direct consequence of a direct military order given by a human being -- the president of the United States -- for reasons now leniently called “mistaken.” The tsunami, needless to say, cannot be pinned to human volition at all: it is a natural disaster -- unpreventable, inexplicable, and irrevocable. If blame for setting it off is to be placed, there is no one to blame but God.

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http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_10632.shtml

[itzamirakul]

1. Yes, it is good...

It is always good when someone in MSM speaks for truth instead of continually winding one lie thread after another onto their reel.