11th August 2003, 10:56 PM
On a related, but different, note... my analysis of why Bush does policy the way he is. Based on what I've read in places like Time Magazine and from stuff like Al Gore's speech last week (great speech, by the way... but I doubt anyone else here watches C-Span? :) )
'Sadaam is trying to buy nuclear materials from several African nations"
Junior said something like that in his last State of the Union address. He said that Sadaam was trying to buy nuclear material from some African countries, even though the CIA knew that the intelligence was highly suspect to the point that they eventually figured out that it was a forgery... yet despite that our idiot said it in his State of the Union address.
That is called lying. A much, much worse kind of lying than Clinton's, which were to cover a stupid personal mistake... that lie was to get us to go to war. Much more serious and criminal.
He also, of course, lied every day for about a year and a half as he said that he had proof Sadaam had WMD and that the inspections weren't working -- the CIA had intelligence that put ... more than sufficient ... doubt (read: once we got in there we learned that they were all completely false) into both of those ideas, but he'd never, ever let "truth" stop him.
Some people just say "Bush is a moron, so its not his fault". Or "his advisors say it and he believes". Sorry... but WRONG. He may be dumb, but he's not STUPID. He DID graduate from Yale and law school, after all... he IS intelligent.
His problem is that he knows what is right. Not like, he thinks he knows what is right but will listen when people say in reports what the truth is. He knows. Far, far before he knows any facts. He KNOWS WHAT IS RIGHT. He KNOWS that Sadaam is evil, has WMD deployed all over his nation, and has citizens who will welcome us with open arms. He KNOWS this so it is TRUE... and whatever the agencies (intelligence, forestry, foreign affairs, economics, labor, whatever...) say is silly lies which we must correct to reflect the truth, of course.
This is, of course, just as true about his approach to domestic policy... how else do we get a tax cut "which will work" by giving HUGE cuts to the top 5%, the very group least likely to spend it on things that will actually help our economy... and then when it miserably fails GETTING ANOTHER ONE WITH THE SAME MORONIC RHETORIC?
Bush knows what is the right thing to do about taxes -- give breaks to his nice, nice friends who helped give him SO much money to get him here... and himself, of course. He is quite rich too. Helping the economy? Just like the idiotic stories about how we were invading Iraq to save the Iraqi people, cover lies to placate the masses... because, of course, they know a lot of those stupid masses will listen. :(
Oh... and Weltall, not participating here because you know you can't win? :)
'Sadaam is trying to buy nuclear materials from several African nations"
Junior said something like that in his last State of the Union address. He said that Sadaam was trying to buy nuclear material from some African countries, even though the CIA knew that the intelligence was highly suspect to the point that they eventually figured out that it was a forgery... yet despite that our idiot said it in his State of the Union address.
That is called lying. A much, much worse kind of lying than Clinton's, which were to cover a stupid personal mistake... that lie was to get us to go to war. Much more serious and criminal.
He also, of course, lied every day for about a year and a half as he said that he had proof Sadaam had WMD and that the inspections weren't working -- the CIA had intelligence that put ... more than sufficient ... doubt (read: once we got in there we learned that they were all completely false) into both of those ideas, but he'd never, ever let "truth" stop him.
Some people just say "Bush is a moron, so its not his fault". Or "his advisors say it and he believes". Sorry... but WRONG. He may be dumb, but he's not STUPID. He DID graduate from Yale and law school, after all... he IS intelligent.
His problem is that he knows what is right. Not like, he thinks he knows what is right but will listen when people say in reports what the truth is. He knows. Far, far before he knows any facts. He KNOWS WHAT IS RIGHT. He KNOWS that Sadaam is evil, has WMD deployed all over his nation, and has citizens who will welcome us with open arms. He KNOWS this so it is TRUE... and whatever the agencies (intelligence, forestry, foreign affairs, economics, labor, whatever...) say is silly lies which we must correct to reflect the truth, of course.
This is, of course, just as true about his approach to domestic policy... how else do we get a tax cut "which will work" by giving HUGE cuts to the top 5%, the very group least likely to spend it on things that will actually help our economy... and then when it miserably fails GETTING ANOTHER ONE WITH THE SAME MORONIC RHETORIC?
Bush knows what is the right thing to do about taxes -- give breaks to his nice, nice friends who helped give him SO much money to get him here... and himself, of course. He is quite rich too. Helping the economy? Just like the idiotic stories about how we were invading Iraq to save the Iraqi people, cover lies to placate the masses... because, of course, they know a lot of those stupid masses will listen. :(
Oh... and Weltall, not participating here because you know you can't win? :)
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