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Thief in the White House

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 26 July 2005
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A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Adam Southwick

Long before 9/11 or the invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush’s biographer Mickey Herskowitz quoted the presidential candidate as saying, "One of the keys to being a great leader is to be seen as a Commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it." And: "If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it."

After a mere 26 months in office, Bush kept his word and spent his capital on Operation Iraqi Freedom.

But just where did all that "political capital" come from that gave him his "chance to invade"?

The answer: He stole it from you and me.

He terrified an already frightened America with an imminent threat of mushroom clouds and dirty bombs from a "madman" in Baghdad, and we reluctantly gave away our capital to the President so that he would keep us safe from those nightmares. (After all, he promised us that his evidence was "a slam dunk.")

So the capital was spent, and "mission accomplished" was proclaimed. The war President had saved us all from Saddam’s weapons of doom!

But time went on...

And no weapons of mass destruction were found...

And then came Joe Wilson’s New York Times article ...

Followed by the Downing Street Memos ...

And we came to learn that there was no imminent threat, and Saddam had no nuclear weapons, or any other WMDs ...

And suddenly, the thief in the White House was exposed.

But as the shock and horror of this treasonous scandal even now continues to unfold, and the gravity of the crime slowly sinks in, it becomes apparent that our thief-in-chief stole much more than just "political capital" from us.

He stole our trust. He stole our national respect in the world. He stole the lives of our sons and daughters that were needlessly slaughtered in the sands of Iraq. He stole the lives of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens. He stole hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to fund an illegal war of choice.

He stole from us all, and all for political power — all to be seen as a great "Commander-in-chief."

There’s a thief in the White House.

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/07/con05255.html

Forum posts

  • Aw, quit your whinning.

    You can’t do a single thing to change what is happenning or what is going to happen. You are a weak, foolish blogger. You will not change anyone’s mind with a rehashing of things that were already talked about and dismissed.

    Over an over again fools like you repeat endlessly what are simply events and thoughts that no one cares about. And that is the biggest reason that you are and will be ineffective.

    • Why don’t *you* quit your whining and look reality in the face for a change. Or have you and reality filed for divorce?

      It’s obvious to anybody outside of America that a mentally defective madman is running the country, and that he has invited the inmates of the local mental asylum to help him. I was watching a discussion on BBC World before last year’s "election", where a reporter from the Times (the original newspaper from London) mentioned that fact that George W. Bush would probably lose his deposit in any European election, poling only a few hundred votes. Interestingly enough, even the reporter from the New York Times was nodding in agreement!

    • To what you say about Bush losing out in an European election; I conclude that this does not include England... [Hahahaha]

      But what does this have to do with the price of tea in China?

      Look, Bush is a White American and White America put him in charge to lead and do their bidding. Somehow you all think that Bush is detached from the thinking of the rest of America... Are you ever wrong. Save for a handful, the rest of White America believes and has total faith in Bush and his administration.

      Again, for most of the bloggers here, they seem to think that the White American is good at heart and mind and that somehow Fox News, Rush and the Ditto Heads, Bush, et al, are somehow different then the rest of White America. The fact is that Fox News, Rush and all of the others are part of the pool of White America; they were and are from the same community with the same thinking and same biases and same desires.

      My original assertation still stands... Your whinning will do absolutely nothing to correct whatever wrongs you percieve. If you do not believe me... Post back to this blog in 2009...

    • Whining? This is the problem I have with Bushies...My FACTS Vs. their RHETORIC and my ANALYSIS Vs. their EMOTION. So why are YOU bothering to read? Are you a paid troll from the Republicans (Yes, Prissy knows)
      How about you go get your "entertainment" from reality TV, like the rest of your "intelligent" friends....Your boys are going down, understand? Do you have a degree in Criminal Justice? No. Do they? No. Does Prissy? Yes.
      There’s so much more:
      Jeb Bush...Shocking ’Coin Gate’ Crimes and Murder Published on 02 July 2005 Source: TNC Staff Reporter FL

      Florida Investigator Who Got Too Close to Florida "Coin Gate" Silenced by Jeb Bush’s Gangsters

      This is from a professional Criminal Justice mag, not the National Enquire.....

      http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com bottom right link on page "Coingate"

      Just like the rest of them, these slime intend to let time on filing charges expire....to hell with the overwhelming evidence. If it was you or I - well, we’d be locked up by now...

  • Commander in Thief is George Murder Bush.

    To all the supporters of this scumbag: the civilized and educated people all over the world, and that is the majority of human mankind minus the rednecks - laugh hard about you.

    Just look what a sad figure you have put in the oval office. Hardihar... God you are so funny!!!

  • I don’t think the article was meant for changing peoples minds, especially the likes of those who say "you can’t do a single thing to change what is happening or what is going to happen". Maybe that’s how alot of us would react to a murderous thief , but depite the odds, many would prefer to fight to their death. This "rehashing of things that were already dismissed" by SOME are not "events and thoughts that nobody cares about". Many of us care, but we keep gong back to sleep and it looks like we need these repetitive wake-up calls. And, who knows?... maybe the truth can be absorbed the same way the lies were...being repeated over and over again. Thankyou, Buzzflash reader, for not giving up.

    • As I have said to the other reply...

      Post back in 2009 if you care to remember and see if I am not correct.

      You are powerless to do anything other than post replies to this blog. There are 200 million White Americans who stand against you. How do you plan to reason with them and get them to see what you see? How much access do you have to the power structure that governs you? How much access do you have to these peoples who stand against you? How much time do you have to do this? How about your abilities to communicate and articulate your thoughts and ideas to make others undestand and motivate? Why should these peoples give up the benefits they have and feel they have in Bush and his leadership to listen to you?

      Think... Think and you will see you are zero and have a zero chance to change anything beyond the sweat on you nose.

      While the White-Right may have their delusions; you by no means have any less delusions.

    • How ’bout if you post back here in 2007 when gas hits $ 4 a gallon because of George White Bush’s excellent mideast adventures and corporate white America mortgaging the country to COMMUNIST China in return for all that cheap outsourced labor that drives down the Bible Belt’s standard of living, forcing them to shop at Mal-Wart for eternity. Then, because gas is too expensive and attendance is dwindling ( people will have to chose between attending or eating) , they’ll have to cancel NASCAR and stop making SUV’s and you’ll kill yourself .

  • Okay, I’ll post back in 2009 if we’re still alive. I think I see your point. Still I think our instincts for survival in the face of murderous thieves is only natural(besides those of us are too petrified to react) which is to fight to our death. Some see the futility and pray to their God for themselves and their enemies...whatever...if the outlook is totally negative why give in so soon? The Iraqis haven’t, and look at what they are and have been up against for decades: colonization, Saddam, the santions, the occupation. Wrong or right I would like to be optomistic.

    • Warmonger Bush will definitely go down in history as a Hilter. There is no other legacy for him after what he has done and will do while he occupies the White House.

      The mentaly defective, social psycopaths that support him will also share his disgraceful story in the history books. What kind of Christian would support murdering, starving, torture, greed, gross dishonesty?

      Bush’s history will be one of the vile scum who claim to believe in Jesus doing exactly the opposite of what Jesus Christ taught while he walked the earth. The Taliban pales in comparison to the Redneck Jesus Freaks of the USA today.