Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Bush's Boys Push the Panic Button Again
Here we go again. The bullshit machine is on full throttle. Today, Porter Goss (Bush’s boy), Robert Mueller (Bush’s boy), and Donald Rumsfeld (also Bush’s boy) raised the red flag on Iranian nuclear weapons, Syrian intransigence, and Al-Qaeda cells lurking in America. Add the recalling of our ambassador to Syria in response to the killing of Rafik al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, and you have a classic case of Republican hysteria mongering.
Crisis!, Crisis!, Americans be very afraid of our non-specific, non-substantiated, hearsay warnings.
My immediate reaction was “How can they even think about going to war with Iran without an army?” It just as quickly came to me that the answer was that Iraq would essentially have to take care of itself now that it has an elected government. Not tomorrow, but in the very near future. As long as we have permanent Iraqi military bases and protect the oil fields, then the rest of the country can to hell for all Bush cares. Another thing, now that Bush believes the Palestinian/Israeli issue is "settled," he can turn up the pressure elsewhere. Best of all, it takes the heat off Bush and his budget disaster.
Now it’s time to see just how gullible our oh-so-politically-aware population is going to be. I’ll give you 5 to 1 odds they suck it down faster than Jeff Gannon… well, I’ll leave that up to your imagination.
Crisis!, Crisis!, Americans be very afraid of our non-specific, non-substantiated, hearsay warnings.
My immediate reaction was “How can they even think about going to war with Iran without an army?” It just as quickly came to me that the answer was that Iraq would essentially have to take care of itself now that it has an elected government. Not tomorrow, but in the very near future. As long as we have permanent Iraqi military bases and protect the oil fields, then the rest of the country can to hell for all Bush cares. Another thing, now that Bush believes the Palestinian/Israeli issue is "settled," he can turn up the pressure elsewhere. Best of all, it takes the heat off Bush and his budget disaster.
Now it’s time to see just how gullible our oh-so-politically-aware population is going to be. I’ll give you 5 to 1 odds they suck it down faster than Jeff Gannon… well, I’ll leave that up to your imagination.
