Is the Bush administration factually mad?

[billyskank]

From today's Guardian:

As a consequence of the catastrophe that occurred in New Orleans, people in the US and throughout the world have started to re-examine the record of the present leaders of the first world superpower. A shift in opinion has taken place almost overnight. History, throwing us all back into our seats, suddenly opened its throttle.

Katrina - everyone refers to the hurricane by her name as if she were some kind of avatar - revealed that there is dire and increasing poverty in the US, that black people are typically treated as unwanted second-class citizens, that the systematic cutting of government investment in public institutions has produced widespread social disequilibrium and destitution (40 million Americans live without any aid if they fall ill), that the so-called war against terrorism is creating administrative chaos, and that within and against all this, voices of protest are being raised loud and clear.
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All political leaders sometimes parry with the truth, but here the disconnections are systematic and crop up not only in their announcements but in their every strategic calculation. Hence their ineptness. Their operation in Afghanistan failed, their war in Iraq has been won (as the saying goes) by Iran, Katrina was allowed to produce the worst natural disaster in US history, and terrorist activities are increasing.

An ignorance about most of what exists, and an abdication from the very minimum of what can be expected of government - are we not approaching disconnections which amount to what can be called madness when found in the minds of those who believe they can rule the planet?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1570243,00.html

[Heidi]

1. Kanye West said it better and shorter, but it bears repeating.

Thanks, billy! :loveya:

[billyskank]

2. He said it so succinctly

I had to put it in my signature. :)

[bridgit]

3. for crying out loud when is the world going to wake the hell up...

republicans do not give a ratz puh-tooty about anything or anyone but themselves; when you work it down to the cellular level they only care literally about themselves. cheney wasn't even off somewhere like far too many say he is pulling strings, ropes & levers while pushing mad buttons for christ's sake he was off buying a house for HIMSELF therefore welcome not merely to the republican war on terror; but welcome ye...

to the republican war on the known world ~

[bridgit]

4. billy kick...

:kick:

[billyskank]

5. ...

:thumbsup:

[bridgit]

6. billy kick2...

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