For 10 Long Years, the Sons of Bitches Have Made a Killing Off of War!!!!

[Octafish]

"Money Trumps Peace."

Click the picture and hear him -- the occupant of the Oval Office whose cronies made fortunes fighting the global war of terror over the past 10 years -- actually say it during a press conference on Feb. 14, 2007.

My unofficial transcript:

"Let's put it this way. Uh. Money trumps peace. Sometimes. Heh heh heh. In other words, commercial interests are very powerful interests throughout the world."

[Bonobo]

1. "Shit, so we knew about the hijackers!? That can't come out or it's all our asses...

But oh well, we can use this to our advantage."

Or something like that I suspect.

[Octafish]

4. Bush was briefed and went back to cuttin' brush and actin' tough 'n' stuff.

The record shows Caligula Jr. didn't act after getting the heads-up. He's never been held to account in public, under oath for never acting on that CIA intelligence.

Remember how he appeared before the 9-11 commission with Dick Cheney? It's like Smirko needed a handler. Analysis from Knight-Ridder:

Tag-Team Testimony from Bush, Cheney Will Limit Divergent Answers

WASHINGTON - President Bush's plan to appear before the Sept. 11 commission with Vice President Dick Cheney at his side violates a fundamental rule of investigations, but the panel accepted the unusual arrangement to get the president's cooperation.

As anyone who has ever watched a cop show knows, witnesses and suspects are best grilled alone to expose any inconsistencies in their stories.

"Get 'em alone, keep 'em alone, and don't even let them talk to each other immediately after, if you can help it," former New York police detective Robert Louden said Wednesday, recalling the tactics he used during his 21 years on the force. "In an ideal world, you want them separated."

SNIP...

No date has been set for the tag-team testimony. The arrangement virtually eliminates any possibility of divergent answers from Bush and Cheney, and lets Bush pass off any question he'd rather avoid and makes it impossible for the commission to ask either man any follow-up questions.

CONTINUED...

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R

Booze, rage and justice in the participation age

It is now clear to me that the people's rage is a tool in the hands of the new electronic and digital corporate state. Its various channels, eddies and pools, regardless of type, can be directed toward all sorts of mischief and profit. Left or right, the angry throngs on both sides can be managed and directed. They can be sent chasing various injustices, denouncing evil characters on Wall Street, Times Square bombers, BP executives, or whatever, worked up into slobbering outrage over Sarah Palin, and thus kept divided and working against each other for the benefit of last gasp capitalism.

Once outside the furious drek of American political and economic life, and having finished the last book I will ever write, I found myself asking: "Why did the good in the American people not triumph? How can it be that so many progressive, justice-loving citizens failed? Their positions were well reasoned. The facts were indisputably on their side. Obviously, there was, and is, more going on than merely losing battles to demagoguery and meanness. Why do we lose the important fights so consistently? What has kept us from establishing a more just kingdom? Something is missing.

I think it is, in a word, the spiritual. The stuff that sustained Gandhi and Martin Luther King, and gave them the kind of calm deliberate guts we are not seeing today. I am not talking about religion, but the spirit in each of us, that solitary non-material essence, none the less shared by all humans because we are human. When we let our capitalist overlords cast everything in a purely material light -- as material gain or loss for one group or another -- we played the oppressor's game.

It was always a game with no vision. Just good guys, bad guys, pissed off people, or apathetic disenfranchised ones, amid one helluva lot of money changing hands. Mostly the wrong hands. That game drives us to the petty larcenies we perform against one another in the name employment, and the atrocities abroad to which none of us lay our rightful claim as beneficiaries of the empire's pillage. Our purposeful blindness to such things necessarily eliminates any universal vision. All the best ones are universal.

Yet down inside human beings is a love of justice. Honestly. The psyche seeks balance, and therefore seeks justice. Regardless of the perversion of its definition, and therefore the laws, by those who own nearly all of our country and damned well intend to own the rest, we know.

~ http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/07/waltzing.html">Joe Bageant, "Blogging toward the Kingdom"

RIP - Joe Bageant (1946-2011)

[Octafish]

5. Mr. Bageant spelled it out: Without Justice, the Republic Will Fall.

The people know when some are above the law, there is no justice.

In New Mexico, five Democratic state senators tried to do something about it:

Senators Gerald Ortiz y Pino and John Grubesic introduced SJR5 on 1/23/07 calling for impeachment of Bush and Cheney. Despite testimony from many concerned New Mexicans, it was killed by Republicans and 9 Democrats on 3/8/07 using a procedural vote that cut off debate.

PS: Thank you for the outstanding passage, DeSwiss. Mr. Bageant put the issues into words in a most concise, compelling and convincing way. Our nation very much miss his presence. We will even more in the days ahead.

[Nostradammit]

3. Sweet Jesus, I had forgotten how much I despise that creature.

If I ever have children again I'm going to do everything in my power to ensure that they
turn out to be his polar opposite.


Hell's too good for him.

[Octafish]

7. The Bush Family Tree gives new meaning to the term 'Deadwood'...

Know your BFEE: Merchants of Death

Wonder why America's noose media never brings that up?

Most importantly: Your children will be very fortunate, indeed, to have you for a parent, Nostradammit.

[Tennessee Gal]

6. Not only have they made money, they screwed the economy

with their tax cuts for the wealthy. Don't ever forget that he is the only pResident to ever cut taxes during a war. Every other President raised taxes to pay for the wars.

[Generic Other]

8. The money of the rich is more important than the children of the poor

That's what I heard.

[ThatsMyBarack]

9. I didn't get too far with that video.

My IQ just dropped about 10 points listening to that "money is peace" bullshit.

[Mnemosyne]

10. Thanks, Octafish. George W. Bush is a war criminal, hasn't the brains god gave a carrot, but

so often he actually did tell the truth; to his 'base'. People always called him a liar, they never seemed to realize he wasn't speaking to us.

"money trumps peace", should be on his gravestone, inhuman pos.

[butterfly77]

11. And they are using...

that money now trying to kill us,in every way possible.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. Yep...and he "hit the Trifecta" Raid the SS lockbox in the event of a war, National emergency or

a recession. Rat fucking bastard.

Bush, in the weeks before September 11, pledged to honor the sanctity of the Social Security lockbox except in the event of recession, war, or a national emergency. But after "everything changed" on 9/11, he reportedly gloated to his budget director, Mitch Daniels, "Lucky me--I hit the trifecta!"