Maureen Dowd---W.'s Mixed Messages

[kpete]

Saturday, March 11, 2006
Maureen Dowd: W.'s Mixed Messages

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The president also does not seem to understand that he spurred the dissonance that led to this vote of no-confidence. Since Sept. 11, he has been anti-terror but pro-Mideast, a position that has left Americans confused. His enemy is a tactic that's too vague to pinpoint, too vast to ever defeat. In some ways, the country seems more alive to the true origins of the fiends who attacked us than the president.

His nuclear deals have so jumbled up the carrots and sticks that American threats on nuclear proliferation have lost all meaning.

W. and General Rove present the war on terror as Armageddon and World War VIII, yet in every other aspect of foreign policy, it's business as usual. One minute they're scaring Americans into supporting their power grabs by essentially yelling, "They're coming to kill us!" The next minute, the Persian Gulf is still the great nexus for capitalist deals by the likes of Treasury Secretary John Snow, Dick Cheney, Halliburton and the Carlyle Group.

The president preaches that we are seriously threatened by autocratic Arab societies that won't modernize and become free markets, but then his cozy relationship with autocratic Arab regimes, including the Saudis, continues basically unchanged.

As Michael Hirsh of Newsweek summed up in a recent column: "How then did we arrive at this day, with anti-American Islamist governments rising in the Mideast, bin Laden sneering at us, Qaeda lieutenants escaping from prison, Iran brazenly enriching uranium, and America as hated and mistrusted as it ever has been? The answer, in a word, is incompetence."

read the whole article at:
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com/2006/03/maureen-dowd-ws-mixed-messages.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Bush is reaping what he has sown

Americans as a whole have bought into the fear tactics, including, sadly, the concept that Muslims, and Arabs in particular, are dangerous and not to be trusted. Therefore, when Bush suddenly does things like the ports deal, they decide he's unhinged. The ones who realize the scheme are still concerned, because the last thing needed now is to spread around nuclear technology-it sends the message that every country should become a member of the nuclear club.

[tularetom]

2. Their own bigotry is biting them in the ass

They screamed "Raghead" for five years and got everybody in Jesusland scared shitless of Arabs. Now they want to make a business deal with "Ragheads". Bubba can't understand this.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. It's not incompetence. It's called working at cross-purposes.

You can't do bizniz with someone who does bizniz with your enemy. Stupid is as stupid does.

[madmark]

4. its a mix of incompetence and cronyism (both domestic and foreign)

which I upon reflection could be seen to be at cross-purposes; but the incompetence has been in governance, not in obtaining and maintaining power. Ultimately its the American people who are incompetent for reelecting this incompetent cronyist.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Yes, the fault lies with the American people for being

to damn lazy to get away from the right-wing echo chambers.

But the biggest blame of all goes to private, parochial elementary thru high school grades which indoctrinate children to follow, and not to think for themselves.

[Divernan]

6. Jeez! Can't you spell BIDNESS? What, are you a foreigner?!?!

Sarcasm off.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. LOL!

[aden_nak]

5. Ahem. It's "Mexed Missages".

[pfitz59]

11. Luv your bumper sticker......

Could be any two reich wing nutjobs!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

7. Brtilliant. Right out of the ball park. Bet timmy doesn't invite her

on his show to talk about it tomorrow. :)

[TahitiNut]

10. The "vast" versus the "half-vast" ... indeed.

MaDo still doesn't nail it. It's a fraud and impossibility to declare 'war' against a "tactic that's too vague to pinpoint, too vast to ever defeat." This entire regime's foundation is an amalgam of frauds - a series of crimes and deceits beyond counting.

[necso]

12. Great piece. /nt

[jaysunb]

13. Modo may call it " incompetence " but

I got another word for it : Greed ! at all costs, including treason.:evilfrown: