George W. Bush, a true LIB

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Note: Not to be confused with liberal.


Once again, another fiasco reinforces my belief that Bush is a true LIB.

Liar, Incompetent, or Both.

Take this whole Katrina thing. Any halfway with-it resident of New Orleans was acutely aware their city was below sea level, and a lame system of levees is all that stood between it and becoming part of the Gulf of Mexico. That's not my speculation now - that's how it was described to me 20 years ago by a close friend who had lived there for many years. At that time, I did not know it was below sea level, not did I know that levees were all that kept Mother Nature out, until he told me. So he has known it for the last 30 years; I, in turn, have known it for the last 20 years, and you can bet that anyone involved in living in, or governing, New Orleans, or perhaps even all of Louisiana, knew it.

For Bush to claim no one could have anticipated the levees breaching tells me this is pure LIB. Lying, incompetence, or both. And from what we've seen of the video of him being told in advance of how bad it could be and that the levees could be topped, it's obviously lying, and for him to claim that he didn't think topped = breached, is pure incompetence (or lying). Whichever way you take it, liars or incompetents are not who we need leading this nation.

Oh, 9/11. Yes, yes, yes. "No one could have anticipated" terrorists flying planes into buildings. No? Kamikaze's were doing it to ships during WWII. We knew Osama had us in his gunsights. We knew that he had targeted the World Trade Towers in the past. We knew from that famed Presidential Daily Briefing that he was determined to strike within the United States. Richard Clarke and Bill Clinton both warned Bush about it when Bush took office.

Did anyone in the administration specifically know the plan to board the planes on September 11th and fly them to New York and Washington? I certainly hope not - if they did, and failed to act, that would have been treasonous incompetence. But you don't need to know the specific plan to ramp up security and tracking measures. Instead, Bush downgraded the counterterrorism office. That's just pure incompetence. To sit there for some twenty minutes after being informed (the infamous seven minutes and then the photo op afterward), is pure incompetence. To say he did so because he didn't want to upset the children is just lying. Or is he so incompetent that he can't say he was just told that there was something important going on and they need the president right away and we'll have to do this another day, kids, okay?

Failure to get Osama, and to focus all our resources on getting Osama. This is both incompetence and lying. Nearly five years later, and Osama's still running loose. There is no excuse for this.

WMDs and the march to war. Apparently lying, because there were no WMDs and a lot of the justifications were fabricated or taken out of context. Granted, other presidents believed Saddam had WMDs too, but they didn't take us to war just because of that. Saddam was contained and wasn't going anywhere. Another 6 months wouldn't have killed us, it would have had us going in when it wasn't the heat of summer, would have given the inspectors the time they asked for, would have been more time to reassure, and perhaps work with, the world community, and maybe bring some Arab countries on board to boot.

But, no. The hell with the world, he thumbed our nose at Germany and France, and most of "old Europe", squandered all that international good will we had coming out of 9/11, and divided the nation, not just among Democrats and Republicans, but made Arabs and Muslims the boogeymen - effectively making the situation worse. This is pure incompetence.

Tax cuts and war spending? Did you notice how he insisted the tax cuts be pushed through before announcing the expected costs of the war? Wars are expensive. Although a tax cut gives ME more money, it gives the government LESS money. Maybe if my daddy was rich and I could always go back for another hundred thousand I might not appreciate it, but I work for a living and I know that if I take a voluntary cut in income and start spending on my credit cards like crazy, it's going to catch up with me. And although I may look more prosperous, because I bought a big-screen TV and a new Lexus, if I bought them on my credit card then it's a false prosperity that will eventually come back to haunt me. Bush can get away with it though, because unlike my personally racking up my credit cards that I will eventually have to pay (on my reduced income), Bush doesn't have to pay right away, if at all. He just has to survive until 2008, and then it becomes someone else's problem.

The tax cuts, then, are pure foolish irresponsible incompetence in the face of the huge impending costs of going to war. And if he says they're not, then he's either lying, incompetent, or both. A true LIB.

Oh, it goes on and on, from the false terror alerts to his position on Global Warming, to his odd insistence on making gay marriage prevention the top American priority coming into the election. Of all the things going on in the world, that was the least of my worries.

So, anytime I hear anything that makes me wonder what the administration is smoking, I inevitably come to the conclusion that it has to be either lying or gross incompetence.

Or both.

And that, my friends, scares me.

[politicaholic]

1. Well, there's a reason why NOLA was #3 on the list...

of likely terrorist targets.

If that whole Homeland Security thing wasn't such a load of BS, then the levies would have been reinforced, secured, and monitored.

No accountability what so ever.

[Neil Lisst]

2. well said!!

They lie even when there's tape proving they lie.