Buck Fush

[vicente]

Protesters held up signs as U.S. President George W. Bush passes by during the inaugural parade in Washington, January 20, 2005. One of the thousands of signs by anti-Bush protesters was a 36"X48" sign that read BUCK FUSH. Thousands of anti-Bush protesters turned out to voice their dissent.

There should have been billions, world wide, protesting.

One Democrat was quoting as saying"
“What, exactly, do these Republicans think they're celebrating? …. the fact that President Bush has publicly promised that no one will be held accountable for the mess in Iraq, despite mass deception about weapons of mass destruction, and despite the fact that we have lost more than 1,500 heroic soldiers with more than 10,000 wounded?” Nancy Pelosi

At his Inaugural, George Bush vowed to vanquish tryanny,...guess he's going home to a large bag of pretzels to choke himself to death.
In my opinion, America will not heal during the next 4 years unless Bush is tried and executed for his crimes,...against America, Humanity and Nature.

[Thomas Knierim]

Some German news agencies released reports yesterday according to which president Bush plans a sequel to the Iraq invasion in his second term, inofficially dubbed "Fight against evil II", which consists of a forceful change of government in Iran. According to the report, the country is already teeming with American intelligence personnel collecting strategic information such as a list of targets to be attacked from the air, and a most-wanted list of mullahs to be assassinated. Very chilling news indeed. Can anyone confirm this?

Thomas

[sahyo]

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=6657

[vicente]

Thanks asheera,...that news was also on US news, ie: U.S. conducting secret missions in Iran. Reuters
Jan. 16, 2005 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6832704/

This however was my favorite commentary for today:

God Bless America...
...We’re gonna need it.

January 20, 2005

What is one to say about today? To the horror of its well-wishers across the world, the United States—once the “last, best hope of mankind”- is re-inaugurating the worst president in its history; one who has exploited an attack, the success of which its own incompetence helped enable, in order to execute an extremist agenda that is killing thousands, costing trillions and leaving all of us far more insecure than when it began. Before November 2, we could argue it was all a mistake; the guy ran as a “compassionate conservative,” misrepresented his record, Nader screwed everything up, and we actually voted for Gore anyway. It took the Republicans on the Supreme Court—two of whom were appointed by the guy’s dad—to stick the country with this regime filled with ideological fanatics and corrupt incompetents. Now, what are we to say? Fifty-nine million members of our nation do not mind that we were deliberately misled into a war that has drained our blood and treasure to create nothing but hatred and chaos; and that the very people who were at fault have been rewarded and promoted, encouraged to look for new targets to spread their hubristic malevolence. It defies all logic and truthfully, my ability to explain or even fully understand it. One thing is for certain: Based on an virtually unanimous unwillingness to consider its past mistakes and learn from them, things are going to get far, far worse before they get better. Thousands more will die. Trillions more will be squandered. Millions more will grow to hate and revile the name of the United States of America and prepare to attack us in ways for which our government is resolutely unwilling to prepare. Avoidable catastrophe awaits this nation and its victims during the next four years as we will undoubtedly reap what we have sown.

One thing’s for certain, none of this would have been possible without the enthusiastic cooperation—if not cheerleading—of the nation’s mainstream media. Thomas Friedman, considered a liberal opponent of the Bush administration who nevertheless advocated for its mendacious arguments vis-à-vis Iraq and then explicitly excused its willingness to lie because, after all, Hussein was a vicious dictator, cannot help but recognize the damage the administration has done to the nation’s good name the world over. Still, he once again chooses to empower its worst instincts vis-à-vis yet another abominable adventure in Iran by finding what? A single Oxford student in Paris. And pronouncing on the basis of this intrepid bit of investigative reporting that Iran is a “Red state” by extension, would welcome an American invasion of the type outlined by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker. Four years from now we will be assessing the fallout from that catastrophe undoubtedly in dead Americans, Iranians and additional hatred—and terrorists—bred the world over. God Bless America. We are going to need all the help we can get. Eric Alterman

[NeverMind]

Lets just eat his soul. Did he get egged this time?

[jesupocaplypse]

What's the range on three man slingshots? If you were take, say 3 three man sling shots, overlap them into 1 triple strength launcher.... what it be possible to barrage the white house from a reasonably safe distance... with red paint filled water balloons?

Maybe a remote controlled airplane, loaded with something nasty to dive bomb the 'prez' on his way inside?

[venom mama]

i voted for kerry


bush does love his wars
he thinks of our troops as nothing more than toy soldiers for him to play with


i do love america
but sometimes i just don't understand her.

[vicente]

bush does love his wars
he thinks of our troops as nothing more than toy soldiers for him to play with


December 5, 2002—If any of us are to have a future worth having, the world's leaders, the members of Congress, the US corporate media and people of all political persuasions who value freedom and democracy had better start seeing George W. Bush for what he is: a sociopath and a passive serial killer.

Psychiatrists tell us that all serial killers lack the emotions that make us human; that they have to learn to emulate those emotions in order to get by in society. Hence, a charming, well educated fellow like Ted Bundy who is known to have murdered 15 women and may have killed 36 before he was caught.

While Bush is no Bundy, when it comes Bundy's education and acquired charm, and to our knowledge has never personally murdered anyone, it has been evident to us that there is something missing in George W. in terms of his lack of compassion and empathy. As governor of Texas, he set a record in signing death warrants—154 in five years. He even made fun of the way convicted killer Karla Faye Tucker begged for her life.

If we believe the psychiatrists, a sign of a future serial killer is a child who delights in torturing and killing animals. George W., as a child, did exactly that. In a May 21, 2000, New York Times' puff piece about the values Bush gained growing up in Midland, Texas, Nicholas D. Kristof quoted Bush's childhood friend Terry Throckmorton: "'We were terrible to animals,' recalled Mr. Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. 'Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,' Mr. Throckmorton said. 'Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.'"

On Sept. 12, 2000, Baltimore Sun reporter Miriam Miedzian wrote, "So when he was a kid, George W. enjoyed putting firecrackers into frogs, throwing them in the air, and then watching them blow up. Should this be cause for alarm? How relevant is a man's childhood behavior to what he is like as an adult? And in this case, to what he would be like as president of the United States."

We're finding out, aren't we? While we, in two articles before the 2000 election—Sept. 21 and Oct. 23—noted Bush's penchant for blowing up frogs, the corporate media blew it off, just as it had no interest in what he was trying to hide by obtaining a new Texas driver license and his 1976 drunk driving conviction, or the fact he was AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard. Instead, they bought into his nonsensical claim of being a "compassionate conservative" and "a uniter not a divider" who was going to "restore honor and dignity to the White House."

All through the 2000 campaign and up to Sept. 11, 2001, the corporate media depicted Bush as an affable, tongue-tied bumbler—the kind of guy Joe Six-pack would like to have a beer with—turning a blind eye to his dark underside. It mattered not that he stocked his illicit administration with the worst of the worst: John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Gale Norton, Paul O'Neill, Harvey Pitt, Thomas White, John Negroponte, Otto Reich and convicted Iran-contra felon Elliot Abrams who received a 1992 Christmas Eve pardon from George W.'s father.

Then, despite his peculiar behavior on Sept. 11, the corporate media and his handlers transformed him into a leader extraordinaire in the mold of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rolled into one.

And as Bush had Afghanistan bombed back beyond the Stone Age to rid the world of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, then switched to claiming it was the Taliban that had to go, then declared there was an "axis of evil" and it was really Saddam Hussein who was the "mother of all evil" and that war with Iraq was in the offing to get rid of Saddam, the corporate media cheered him on and to this day continues to beat the war drum. They have yet to consider that the passive serial killer needs to feed his lust for blood by sending others to put their lives on the line and do the killing for him.

In his Sept. 12 article, White House insiders say Bush is "out of control," Mike Hersh wrote, "Some among Bush's trusted White House staff fear what they are seeing and where Bush is taking us. His state of mind hauntingly reminds them of Richard Nixon's Final Days. They fear Bush is becoming Nixonesque . . . or worse. Although Bush lacks Nixon's paranoia, he may entertain even more dangerous notions."

But their desperate late night phone calls to trusted reporters has not seen the light of day in the corporate media. Yet, some of us outside the Beltway have long had an inkling of what we are dealing with.

More proof lies in Alexandra Pelosi's documentary, Journeys with George. Pelosi, the daughter of incoming House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, was a producer for NBC when she wangled the assignment to spend 18 months as part of Bush's campaign press corps.

From the surface, Pelosi's "home movie," as she calls it, seems to be nothing more than a love fest as George W. works to charm the pants off her and the rest of the press corps. The striking thing about this George, even though Karen Hughes is often seen hovering at his elbow, is that he isn't tongue-tied when he is pumping up his ego, dishing out digs and being sarcastic and crude.

Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon and professor of media studies at New York University, who also sees the darker Bush, said in a Nov. 28 interview with the Toronto Star, ""Bush is not an imbecile. He's not a puppet. I think that Bush is a sociopathic personality. I think he's incapable of empathy. He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and he's a very skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged idiocy, this is what a lot of people miss."

Miller said he did intend The Bush Dyslexicon to be a funny book, but that was before he read all the transcripts, which revealed, according to reporter Murray Whyte, "a disquieting truth about what lurks behind the cock-eyed leer of the leader of the free world. He's not a moron at all on that point, Miller and Prime Minister Jean Chretien agree."

"He has no trouble speaking off the cuff when he's speaking punitively, when he's talking about violence, when he's talking about revenge," Miller told Whyte. "When he struts and thumps his chest, his syntax and grammar are fine. It's only when he leaps into the wild blue yonder of compassion, or idealism, or altruism, that he makes these hilarious mistakes."

In a speech last Sept. in Nashville, trying to strengthen his case against Saddam, Bush's script called for him to say, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." But the words that came out of his mouth were, ""Fool me once, shame . . . shame on . . . you," followed by a long pause, then, "Fool me—can't get fooled again!"

Said Miller, "What's revealing about this is that Bush could not say, 'Shame on me' to save his life. That's a completely alien idea to him. This is a guy who is absolutely proud of his own inflexibility and rectitude."

Another example, Miller said, occurred early in Bush's White House tenure when he said, "I know how hard it is to put food on your family."

According to Miller, "That wasn't because he's so stupid that he doesn't know how to say, 'Put food on your family's table'—it's because he doesn't care about people who can't put food on the table."

Miller told Whyte, ""When he tries to talk about what this country stands for, or about democracy, he can't do it."

"This, then, is why he's so closely watched by his handlers, Miller says not because he'll say something stupid, but because he'll overindulge in the language of violence and punishment at which he excels," Whyte wrote.

"He's a very angry guy, a hostile guy. He's much like Nixon. So they're very, very careful to choreograph every move he makes. They don't want him anywhere near protestors, because he would lose his temper," Miller said.

"I call him the feel bad president, because he's all about punishment and death," Miller told Whyte. "It would be a grave mistake to just play him for laughs."

[NeverMind]

Dude, every kid messes with animals at one point in their lives.
My freind cam thinks its funny when he tackles his dog.
Last 4th of July, me and my buddies got a bucket full of small crabs and tossed firecrackers into the bucket.
Can you honestly say that you never stepped on a bug that you knew was harmless, etc?
I am no bushie, but I dont think thats a valid reason to hate him.

[venom mama]

Originally posted by NeverMind@Jan 22 2005, 03:15 AM
Dude, every kid messes with animals at one point in their lives.
My freind cam thinks its funny when he tackles his dog.
Last 4th of July, me and my buddies got a bucket full of small crabs and tossed firecrackers into the bucket.
Can you honestly say that you never stepped on a bug that you knew was harmless, etc?
I am no bushie, but I dont think thats a valid reason to hate him.



i've never gone out of my way to hurt something, so no not every kid has done something to an animal.

tackling a dog is just playing with it, causing pain to a living creature is simply cruelty.

yes, hurting animals is a valid reason to dislike him.


and as for what you did to the crabs, well, you shouldn't admit to such things, it's not even a little bit cool. what did you get out of it? did you laugh? "oh ya look what we can do, we can hurt something that has no defense against us."



i like your posts nevermind, so i'll just forget about this one here.



respect your fellow earthlings.




:peace:

[Thomas Knierim]

Well, I am glad that not all Americans support Bush.

In Europe we have always watched Republican presidents ascending to power with great suspicion. This was the case with Ronald Reagan as well as with Bush. I must say that my personal impression of George W. Bush on the first day I saw him on TV -even before he became president- was not very good. There was something of "cold stone" about his attitude and his speech, an ossified expression, which told me that he cannot be trusted. First impressions.

I thought to myself, "I hope this guy will not be the successor of Clinton," but unfortunately this was what happened. I can tell you that most Europeans don't like the Bush government. This is partly something political and partly something personal. At the political level, Europe doesn't want the U.S. to go unilateral in questions of global relevance, and at the personal level we are repelled by what we perceive as arrogance of power in persona like Bush, Rice, or Rumsfeld.

I believe that Europeans are very sensitive to this issue. If we see the U.S. government acting from a position of force without taking international resolutions and instruments into regard, that is not something we like. It leaves a bitter taste. We don't want U.S. forces in the Middle East, in Korea, or anywhere else. This is not because we are against Americans, but because we fear that it does more bad than good. It comes at a high human cost and it destabilizes these regions in the long run.

Unfortunately this position is often construed as "Anti-Americanism", which not only emtionalizes the dialog, but is also quite inaccurate. Most Europeans are not anti-American. After all, America's population consists largely of European immigrants and we feel that there is a close cultural relationship. Europe and America have much more in common than they have differences. Those who visited or have worked in the U.S., like myself, can easily relate to Americans and their culture. It's a great country after all.

The problem is really the power politics we have seen from American presidents, in particular Republican presidents, and especially foreign politics where America is often perceived by Europeans as behaving like a bull in a China shop. Granted, the conditions in Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Burma and other countries are quite terrible, but whether or not military action is justified should not be decided by a single government, but by the U.N. which has been brought into being for exactly that purpose.

Greetings, Thomas

[NeverMind]

I realize its inhumane and mean,
but teenagers aren't exactly known for kindness.

Everyone, at one point, takes pleasure in someone else's pain.
I laughed when the kid got hit in the head with a wrench in Dodgeball

Pssh. Crabs don't feel pain.
And most males are stupid.

[NeverMind]

I did read about in incident where Bush was saying some pretty mean and unnecessary things at an execution in Texas that made me cringe. Has anybody else heard that?

[sonrisa]

NM, the most infamous of those incedents is that of Karla Faye Tucker, which you can read about by clicking here (http://www.dangerouscitizen.com/Photo+Gallery/568.aspx)

[NeverMind]

Ugh that makes me sick to my stomach. I can just imagine him standing over the electric chair laughing maniacally then throwing the switch and cackling as lightning cracks overhead and doesn't the President feel justified? Does he feel GOOOOD about himself knowing that one more "criminal" has been taken off the streets?

[jesupocaplypse]

in the future, when society is rebuilding itself after bush has finally past, hopefully we will teach the hard lesson learned by this to our children, that just like WWII and Hitler, the rest of us will grow and better ourselves, improve our set up, that such demons like Bush never get a hold of such power again

Why No One Man Should Ever Have This Much Power and Control at His Fingertips... (unless i's Aragorn)

Sauron has returned... he is poisoning the minds of the masses... taking over the east... only by rallying together and fighting back will be able to destory him, and save the world...

[NeverMind]

Sauron has returned... he is poisoning the minds of the masses... taking over the east... only by rallying together and fighting back will be able to destory him, and save the world...

And, like Sauron, he has his loyal (usually unattractive) servants who rapidly create more and more loyal followers just lik themselves.

[sonrisa]

whatever

just gimme a nite with Viggo & if he's any good
:D I'll probably keep him!! :P

[NeverMind]

give me a night with Legolas and I'll make him my elf love slave!

[jesupocaplypse]

hah!

Now Galadriel, i imagine she would likely be one of the greatest lovers in all of middle earth...

:P

[sonrisa]

:D

[NeverMind]

Whoever Liv Tyler played, I wouldn't mind hitting that.

I found it very amusing that her elvin father in LOTR was also Agent Smith in the Matrix.

[sahyo]

vicente:


Thanks



:) thanks

[venom mama]

looks like nevermind has love for everybody

[NeverMind]

"We've had enough of these politicians' wars
What we need right now is love
We've had enough of these military scoreboards
All we really need is love"
-RX Bandits

great philosophy from a wonderful new-age ska band
everyone should check them out

yeah im loving on the world

which is easy when ur so HAPPY!

[sonrisa]

found this in my hotmailbox....

As Things Fall Apart, Lie and Lie Again
Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Suppose you are the party responsible for invading a country under totally false pretenses. Suppose you had totally unrealistic expectations about the consequences of your gratuitous aggression.

What do you do when, instead of being greeted with flowers, you find your army is tied down by insurgents and you have no face-saving way to get out of the morass? If you are the moronic Bush administration, you blame someone else.

Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, Cheney and Bush blame Syria and Iran for the troubles that they brought upon themselves. The Iraqi insurgency, say the Five Morons, is the fault of Syria and Iran.

Here is Rumsfeld excusing himself for his dismal failures in Iraq: "Partly it's [the insurgency] a function of what the Syrians and the Iranians are doing."

You see, the facts that the US invaded Iraq on false pretenses, killed and maimed tens of thousands of Iraqis, shot down women and children in the streets, blew up Iraqis' homes, hospitals and mosques, cut Iraqis off from vital services such as water and electricity, destroyed the institutions of civil society, left half the population without means of livelihood, filled up prisons with people picked up off the streets and then tortured and humiliated them for fun and games are not facts that explain why there is an
insurgency. These facts are just descriptions of collateral damage
associated with America "bringing democracy to Iraq."

The insurgency, according to the Five Morons, is because Iraq and Iran won't close their borders, thus letting in "terrorists" who are responsible for the insurgency. Some might think that this accusation is an example of the pot calling the kettle black coming as it does from the US, a country that has not only proven itself incapable of closing its own borders but also has demonstrated no respect whatsoever for the borders of other countries.

The Bush administration, which already held the world record as the most deluded government in history, has now taken denial to unprecedented highs by blaming Syria and Iran for its "Iraqi problem." Why didn't Americans realize that it is dangerous to put a buffoon in charge of the US government who hasn't a clue about the world around him, what he is doing or the consequences of his actions?

Why is Secretary of State Rice trying to set Iran up for UN sanctions--which the US can manipulate to justify invading another Muslim country--when the US has proven to the world that it cannot occupy Baghdad, much less Iraq?

Are Iran and Syria going to quake in their boots after witnessing the
success of a few thousand insurgents in tying down 8 US divisions? The bulk of the US force in Iraq is engaged in protecting its own bases and supply lines. It was all the generals could do to scrape up 10,000 Marines for their pointless assault on Fallujah.

What is the point of the Bush administration's bellicosity when it has been conclusively demonstrated that the US has insufficient troops to successfully occupy Iraq, much less Syria and Iran? The American people should be scared to death that they have put in power such deluded people.

Are Americans going to fall for the same set of WMD lies a second time? Are Americans going to deliver up their sons, and perhaps daughters as well, to be drafted and sent to the Middle East to be killed and maimed for no American cause?

The US Treasury is empty. The once "almighty" dollar is tottering. The US military is stretched to the breaking point. Former allies look askance at America. Hatred of America has reached an all time high.

The Bush administration must bring its policies in line with its means
before it leads our country into greater disaster. The Bush administration and its deluded sycophants must stop poking fun at "reality-based" experts and listen to a reality-based message.

There is no possibility of the US imposing its will on the Muslim world. By its behavior the Bush administration is confirming Osama bin Laden's propaganda and breeding more terrorists. Much better to address the causes of Muslim discontent--America's enabling of the Israeli government's mistreatment and dispossession of the Palestinians, and America's export of "culture" that glorifies the sexual promiscuity of women.

It does not serve America for Bush to impose Ariel Sharon's agenda on the Middle East. Bush's insane policy is producing rising anger that endangers Israel and America's puppet governments in Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan along with the Saudi regime. Ironically, this is recognized by Egypt's Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah, who was unable to refrain from pointing out that Bush has managed to create a Shi'ite crescent from Iran to Lebanon.

What, King Abdullah wonders, will be the next unintended consequence of the moronic administration that the American people in their superior wisdom and virtue have seen fit to empower in Washington. "If our aim is to win against terrorism, we can't afford more instability in the area," warned the king prior to the ill-fated US invasion of Iraq. "It's the potential Armageddon of Iraq that worries all of us."

It should worry Americans, too.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: pcroberts@postmark.net

[Thomas Knierim]

This week Bush visited Germany.

I can hardly remember any American president's visit to Germany that was accompanied by more frenzied security measures than this one. There was a one mile security zone around the president secured by 10,000 armed forces, the red zone in the immediate vicinty was completely sealed off, there were people scouring the roof tops for potential assassinators, divers in the river next to the Mainzer castle looking for bombs on the riverbed, people sealing off gullys with welding equipment, dogs, helicopters, and ten thousands demonstrating all over the country.

This visit probably entailed more security efforts than all five Clinton visits combined. - Looks like Bush is not very popular in Germany, although the chancellor did his best to maintain the impression of cordial carefreeness.

:lol:

Cheers, Thomas

[vicente]

Looks like Bush is not very popular in Germany,

"As a boy in Maine, George Bush was the oldest of many cousins and would set the rules for summer games at the family compound. “If he was losing he’d change the rules — or take the ball and leave,” one cousin told me. Then there was the time when, as a new kid, just up from Texas at his prep school Andover, Bush was tripped and mocked early in an intramural soccer match. He waited for a chance to exact revenge — then blindsided his foe so viciously he nearly broke the boy’s ankle. “He spent that match angling to take me out,” said the Andover alum, now a successful businessman. “And he did.”

far from being the dim-bulb tool of Karl Rove’s genius, Bush was a shrewd, prickly, win-at-all-costs guy who never should have been underestimated — as he was, for a decade — by the tottering Eastern power structure that dismissed him as a foolish, errant son of privilege.

Far more revealing are the glimpses into the combative, even arrogant heart of Bush’s character — and that of the Bush Clan. These are people expert at boarding-school blasé, at hiding a seething need to win behind a veil of bumbling nonchalance."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7017489/