Bush to America: War!

[bridgit]

'Faced with a collapse of popular and political support, the president’s response in an address to the nation was astonishing: Not only will the war effort go on unabated; it will be escalated and expanded.

The first question that arises is: Why was it necessary to dawn the mask of deliberations, dancing silently through two months of weighty consultations, for this?

This did not represent a change in strategy. It did not represent a change in thinking. Rather, it was open defiance: Damn the election; load the munitions! It was a barely discernible rephrasing of the same old tired lines:

“We must not fail” but we have failed.

The war is “noble and necessary” when in fact it was a war of choice founded on repeated lies and deceptions.

We are engaged in “the ideological struggle of our time” when in fact we have prosecuted the oldest imperial strategy in history: a war for greed and dominion.

We are “advancing liberty” by ripping a nation apart at the seams.

“We have to fight them over there so we will not have to fight them here” when in fact we have created more enemies by our actions than we can possibly count.

On and on, the president stands firm, lock-jawed and determined. He will not back down. He is a war president: Once a war president, always a war president.'

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan07/Random11.htm

[muntrv]

1. America to Bush: Go enlist and take Dicky deferrments with you.

[whistle]

2. Bush is Wagging the dog!

[Teacher in SC]

3. You're probably right.

I hadn't thought of that, but now that you mention it...

[hatrack]

4. "Lock-jawed" . . . Hmm . . . Isn't "lockjaw" an old-fashoned word for tetanus?

:evilgrin:

[bridgit]

5. yep...

:rofl:

[northofdenali]

6. Maybe we'll get lucky.

Maybe he'll start frothing at the mouth. Oh, wait, that's rabies. Well, if the shoe fits.....

[Leopolds Ghost]

7. Why, President Ahmadinejad, I forgot all about our disagreement. I even forgot what you called me.

"Do you mean worm?"

[caffeinefwee]

8. Bush To America