Re: America used to champion success, now we are led by a failure

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>America Used to Pride Itself on Championing Success. Now the Busheviks Cheer
>on Failure and Smear Patriots Who Would Make America More Secure.
>A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
>
>It's been the story of Bush's life.
>
>Time after time the man failed until friends of his father bailed him out.
>It happened with his failure to serve in Vietnam, his missing months of
>non-service in the National Guard, his alleged drug conviction, his failure
>at oil drilling, his failure at everything he touched. This was a guy who
>was asked to leave the Carlyle Board -- the incestuous money mill for Bush
>Dynasty loyalists -- because he didn't have anything to offer.
>
>Then Karl Rove "adopted" him, like Henry Higgins adopted Eliza Doolittle in
>"My Fair Lady." There was that fateful moment that Rove loves to recount
>when -- as Poppy Bush's go-fer and driver -- he picked a young George W.
>Bush up from the Union Station in Washington, D.C., and like a sculptor
>eyeing a nice slab of marble, thought to himself "There's my meal ticket.
>This guy is named Bush and in a $2000 suit I can make something of him. He's
>got the height, the Eddie Haskell look of false earnestness, and the right
>cocky swagger."
>
>Of course, Rove turned Bush into a political marketing success, creating an
>image of a Governor and then a President out of an empty suit with a
>political "brand" name.
>
>But before the pitch man with the golden shiv for character assassination
>teamed up with the ne'er do well son of a declining WASPish East Coast
>dynasty that had decided to put on cowboy boots, Bush was always being
>pulled out of the frying pan and the messes he created by Daddy's friends.
>The only exception was his money-making stint with the Texas Rangers, where
>he was essentially "used" for his name in return for a "favored son"
>financial share in the team. And the value of his stock soared due to he and
>his partners using eminent domain to steal real estate from surrounding
>citizens, which then inflated the value of the franchise.
>
>So, when you look at George's history, you can understand Iraq from a
>different angle. Yes, it was a war that sprung from Neo-con fantasies of
>being "Masters of the Universe," a religious crusade, a motivation to
>control Iraq's oil, a desire to reward GOP corporate campaign contributors
>with war profits, a political need to turn Bush into a "War President" to
>then insulate him from any criticism (which would then be termed
>unpatriotic), Bush's psychological need to prove that he was tougher than
>his Dad, etc. -- yes, the Iraq War was due to all these motivations and
>more.
>
>But, in the end, the Iraq War is really just another George W. Bush fiasco,
>the kind in which historically Daddy or his friends arrived to pull his ***
>out of the mess that he had created -- and clean things up before
>governmental authorities stepped in.
>
>But now, the Iraq War is too big of a monstrous disaster for Daddy to fix
>for Junior.
>
>The American public is split into several basic camps, as we, as a nation,
>try to figure out how to salvage lives and our national pride from another
>George W. Bush's epic "shock and awe" calamity:
>
>- The true believers who will continue to follow George W. Bush over the
>cliff because they believe he is the "branding image" created by Rove: an
>earnest Christian white guy, just like them, who is conducting a divine war
>against the heathens. These people are supported by the parasitic partisan
>right wing media machine, whose job is to cheerlead Bush on as a "great
>leader" as he drives America over a cliff.
>
>- The pragmatists who realize that the war is unwinnable, that Bush has
>created another one of his personal failures, that Rumsfeld is demented and
>incompetent, but that the prestige of the United States is at stake, so we
>can't pull out of Iraq because the sole remaining superpower doesn't cut and
>run, even if it's been led into a trap by an incompetent leader. So we
>continue to compound the original mistake by continuing to fight on for the
>mere sake of showing force and saving face.
>
>- The Republican elected officials who are starting to worry about the toll
>that the war will take on the fate of the GOP in the 2006 elections. This
>group doesn't know what the heck to do, but Chuck Hagel is one of them who
>has put his nose to the wind and can smell the rebellion in the heartland.
>
>- The Democratic leadership in D.C. who has been emasculated to the point
>that they are too timid to catch up with public opinion on the war,
>exemplified by Joe "Wrong Way Corrigan" Biden who believes we should send
>MORE troops to Iraq. These Democrats are limping behind national opinion and
>Republican dissenters like Hagel.
>
>- The patriots who are truly concerned about America's national security and
>want an orderly withdrawal of troops, international involvement in cleaning
>up the mess in Iraq, a removal of American military bases, and an emphasis
>on fighting terrorism, not having more Americans die for Bush's folly. One
>of the few Democratic senators in this camp is Russell Feingold.
>
>- The patriots who know that a wrong war cannot be made right and want the
>immediate withdrawal of troops and a renewed emphasis on strategically
>fighting terrorism in order to best ensure our national security.
>
>It should be noted that the latter two groups also want the Bush
>Administration to be held accountable for betraying the national security of
>the United States of America and lying the nation into an ill-fated and
>mismanaged war.
>
>In Idaho, Bush declared that "war protestors...make our nation less secure."
>Nothing has made our nation less secure than the Bush Administration. The
>people who want to stop our soldiers from needlessly dying are concerned
>that Bush is imperiling the national security of the U.S. due to his
>misjudgment, vanity, and partisan agenda.
>
>Wealthy, elite pals of Poppy Bush could bail Junior out of the many fiascoes
>and jams he got himself into prior to Karl Rove doing his Henry Higgins bit
>on him.
>
>But a war that has killed nearly 2,000 American service men and women,
>wounded thousands upon thousands, killed more than 100,000 Iraqis, and cost
>American taxpayers billions upon billions of dollars is something that even
>Daddy cannot fix.
>
>Others are left, as usual, to clean up the rich, frat boy's mess. But he
>outdid himself this time, and the powers that be don't know quite what to
>do.
>
>We do: indict, convict and imprison the ringleaders of the Bush
>Administration and don't let another soldier or Iraqi die for "Baby Doc"
>Bush's latest personal failure.
>
>It only takes some courage to stand up to the bullies who betray America.
>That would be the patriotic thing to do.
>
>http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/08/edi05060.html


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Rick (Richard Allen) Hohensee Party of one
candidate, President of the United States of America
humbubba@xxxxxxxxx Maryland, USA
Ground troops out of Iraq Put the CIA under INS
Semi-legalize drugs Prosecute Bush Tighten the borders
Isolate Israel Tax churches halve military aquisitions
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