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Bush’s Joke: The "Good News" from Iraq

by Open-Publishing - Friday 13 October 2006
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And you thought it was a Hell-Hole LAST year!

Bush, a bit stumbly and somewhat incoherent yesterday in the Rose Garden (what a sweet smell!), tried once again to persuade the doubting Thomases in the Press Corps that Iraq’s problems are just a series of temporary glitches and that they can be fixed!

I really had a huge guffaw when Bush had the audacity to actually say he was proud of the Iraqi citizens who wanted "freedom" so desperately they were willing to sit tight and put up with the violence which plagues them daily! That’s like saying that the good people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were pleased to hang around after the twin blasts in 1945 because they loved their country so much! Evidently Bush is unaware that approximately ONE MILLION good citizens of Iraq have already fled the country in the last 3+ years and many thousands more are itching to get out...but can’t afford it.

So, on top of the unrepaired infrastructure, the failing oil industry, the long gas lines and the civil wars raging around the country, the Kurds are ticked off at their neighbors to the North AND the South, Sunni clerics are without persuasive power to bring peaceful settlements, the Iraqi Police are corrupt, the Army inept, and the fledgling government in shambles and without public trust or support!

Add to that mess the US occupiers becoming more despised by the day, and the numbers of dead and wounded civilians and soldiers climbing steadily every day. DOD figures show 17,000+ US troops thus far returning home with "diseases" (as yet unidentified and untreated), and the new and staggering information that the US intends to keep troops in Iraq at full strength until at least 2010!...at an incredible $8 BILLLION per month!....and,well, you just want to sit down and cry. Cry for the Iraqis, for our troops, for their families back home, for the US taxpayer, and for the poor suffering citizens of the United States who have to live under the madman tyrant we’ve all come to know and despise.

What was that about "Not with a whimper but with a bang"?

Forum posts

  • Disgusting and disgraceful in front of the fact that 1.1 million Iraqis got murdered since 2003. The Americans making jokes during their press conferences or discussions about Iraq - it gives genociders some relief, I guess.

  • Our great "Decider In Chief" looks more and more like Kim Jung Il everyday.
    He has to make himself smell better by going into the Rose Garden aka "The Savage Garden"
    named by Jon Stewart Show.
    Kim Jung Il is much better read, more curious, and well spoken....All things that Bush is lacking in.
    Boggs

  • I wonder when it is that the good people will start to realize that the American Street has a bloodlust for the Arabs and Muslims.

    This Bush press briefing should be an indicator of this Bloodlust. For example, not one of the press corps asked a question that deviated from the administration’s stance; in effect, giving a tacit approval for their actions and justifications.

    • Of course, would you expect more/less from this bunch of Media War Whores?
      Evidently they are so afraid of their jobs going to India that they have decided to "bite the bullet."
      Or maybe they like the agenda of torture and war. To some I guess the smell of blood is addicting, like oil!
      Boggs

  • This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.

    T.S. Elliott’s ’The Hollow Men’, published in 1925.

    • Yes, I know the quote; I was taking artistic licence and reversing it...a sort of joke. villy

  • I would ask all of you, What is your Utopian form of government? Please. So I can understand what is your desired direction for world governments.
    jab

    • Utopia? You’re kidding, of course!
      It’s what we DON’T want that’s important. No authorization of torture. No policy of job outsourcing. No cowtowing to foreign countries with trade deals which favor THEM, not our workers. No more paying for benefits for Illegal immigrants.

      No more tax cuts for the super rich, but increased cuts for the middle class. No more rate increases in Medicare while our Congress gets all the goodies. No more slowing an increase is the minimum wage while Congress keeps getting raises!

      No more supsidies to Oil Companies who are already raking in enormous profits!

      And no more invasions of countries whom we "believe" "might be a threat to it’s neighbors or the USA"

      No more incredible deficit run-ups.

      Utopia? Hell no, just reason. The Republicans aren’t offering any.

    • I would suggest as simply MY personal preferance a government that had at it’s center a LOVE of REAL FREEDOM, that existed mainly to make sure EVERYONE was able to pursue whatever type of Liberty they so desired as long as that pursuit didn’t infringe upon anothers ability to do the same. A tough balancing act, but not impossible, and a FAR cry from the type we have now which is IMO a government that uses the base of the pyramid simply as fodder for the convenience, amusement, and enrichment of a twisted criminally insane select FEW.

    • The people of the world aren’t searching for Utopia, mon ami and neither are they searching for a world government. All we are searching for is ADEQUACY, not perfection, decency, not saintliness; and competence, not genius. We don’t ask for much, except to be left alone so we can lead our lives in quiet dignity, and to do that you need decent, honest and rational leaders who are looking for their constituents best interests, not their own shallow aggrandizement.
      The vast majority of us aren’t calling for the moon or the stars, and I don’t think that demanding decent competent leadership is calling for the moon or the stars.
      We certainly no longer have decent & competent leadership in the United States, not in the Congress, and definitely not in the White House.
      Humanity’s sense of individuality is not like any other mammal, save perhaps the cetaceans, and the primates. We are not pack predators like the wolf and the dog. We are far more adaptable than that, but if you listen to the world’s most powerful ’leaders’, the Americans, it would seem that they would have us believe that we are in need of alpha males, All-American alpha males for that matter. No, wrong species, neocons. We don’t need alpha males to run our lives, we are quite able to run our own lives, thank you. We need leaders, not Dictator-wanna-bes, not greed monsters, not corrupt parasites, which is basically all we have here now in America.

      The last thing we need is a world government. A world government will always turn out to be oppressive and dehumanizing. Yes, the world’s nations should abide by the Rule of International Law, but this shouldn’t imply a world government, which can only mean the impostition of a more costly bureaucracy at the expense of our general well being, more instrusion into our lives under the pretense of improving our lives, more oppression disguised as security measures to make our lives ’safe’, but will eventually deprive of us of our basic human rights. This is exactly what has happened to the world’s most powerful nation-state, the US. What we have now is a ’controlled’ democracy, not a real one, and I’m afraid that any world government will be part and parcel of the same kind of twisted development, only worse since it will be world-wide.

      What the US is doing now to the world is enforcing a ’globalization’ made up solely of the most depraved and greedy of humankind: the money makers, (including the IMF and the World Bank, which are American inventions) the arms manufacturers, the die-hard and obsolete oil industry, and last but not least a pharmaceutical industry looking to make money from the world’s new dependence on neuro-chemicals. This ’globalization’ is basically the imposition of a Pax Americana, an ipso-facto world government, a world government, that if allowed to grow and fester, will embody the worst of Huxley’s ’Brave New World’ and not one bit of Thomas More’s original vision whatsoever.
      As for me, I won’t have anything to do with any world government that will inevitably drain us all of our various cultures, that will inevitably homogenize us all into one global bee-hive, suppress our individuality until we become nothing but insects enslaved forever and serving no other masters but the most degenerate minds imaginable.

      I heartily recommend to all of you, FA Hayek’s masterpiece, ’The Road to Serfdom’.