Bye George
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Yep, and no pulling punches either. Here's another Margolis article from January 15th - i think its on topic with the thread too.danmand said:
.. the last disastrous act of the Bush administration ...
Unfortunately ...
"In 2006, the Bush administration worked out a plan with Israel to again invade Lebanon, crush Hezbullah, then go on to attack Syria and Iran. This plan, like other American-Israeli machinations, collapsed in ignominy. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, struggled to prevent the UN and world powers from ending Israel’s attack on Lebanon, which killed over 1,000 civilians and inflicted billions of dollars in damage on Lebanon. But Hezbullah’s unexpectedly effective resistance turned the invasion into a US-Israeli defeat.
Now, she has been at it again in Gaza, attempting to thwart efforts by the UN, EU and other powers to end the massacre there. Once again, America has covered itself with shame and hypocrisy. Shame and hypocrisy only exceeded by America and Israel’s co-conspirator in the Gaza siege, Egypt, which has barred the only escape route from the hell of besieged, starved Gaza."
It isn't just the Bushies in the executive branch that are taking such an unjustifiably one-sided view of the ME. Most of the statements coming from the floor of the US Congress these days are enough to make any even halfway fairness oriented person sick! The Israeli lobby is doing as well now as the tobacco lobby did in the 70s and 80s. The American public, as usual, is very, very slow to wake up.
"In 2006, the Bush administration worked out a plan with Israel to again invade Lebanon, crush Hezbullah, then go on to attack Syria and Iran. This plan, like other American-Israeli machinations, collapsed in ignominy. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, struggled to prevent the UN and world powers from ending Israel’s attack on Lebanon, which killed over 1,000 civilians and inflicted billions of dollars in damage on Lebanon. But Hezbullah’s unexpectedly effective resistance turned the invasion into a US-Israeli defeat.
Now, she has been at it again in Gaza, attempting to thwart efforts by the UN, EU and other powers to end the massacre there. Once again, America has covered itself with shame and hypocrisy. Shame and hypocrisy only exceeded by America and Israel’s co-conspirator in the Gaza siege, Egypt, which has barred the only escape route from the hell of besieged, starved Gaza."
It isn't just the Bushies in the executive branch that are taking such an unjustifiably one-sided view of the ME. Most of the statements coming from the floor of the US Congress these days are enough to make any even halfway fairness oriented person sick! The Israeli lobby is doing as well now as the tobacco lobby did in the 70s and 80s. The American public, as usual, is very, very slow to wake up.
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Hey Giorgino, have a few drinks with me...well more than a few...and tell me all about Tora Bora.Mr. Lucky said:
Another round Dubya...a triple JD and water...not a problem....so tell me did you even look at the dossier on bin Laden before the National Security Advisor threw it in the trash?
The Nightmare is OVER
CNN reports Dubya has already left the White House!
Good riddance Dubya ..... the Worst POTUS in US history!....
CNN reports Dubya has already left the White House!
Good riddance Dubya ..... the Worst POTUS in US history!....
Yesterday on C-Span, Steve Scully (of Washington Journal) asked Ronald Reagan's Chief of Staff what Obama should say to George W. Bush Jr. and his response was "maybe he (Obama) should ask Bush to leave on the 19th."WoodPeckr said:CNN reports Dubya has already left the White House!
Good riddance Dubya ..... the Worst POTUS in US history!....
I guess he did.
Gyaos Baltar.
Hey Woody, what are you going to do with all your free time now that there’s no more Bush bashing posts to write? Your boy is in and the world is now perfect.
Well CF, we now enter the Post Dubya Era ......lots of messes to be cleaned up.
Let's just hope it's more successful than the Post Katrina Era Dubya presided over!....
Let's just hope it's more successful than the Post Katrina Era Dubya presided over!....
This time tomorrow the Bush nightmare will be relegated to the history books. The Reign of Error has come to a close.
Good fucking riddance.
Now comes the monumental task of repairing the untold damage: two failing wars, a collapsed economy, nightmarish levels of debt, destroyed credibility overseas and a tattered Constitution amongst other debacles.
Will the Republicans be on-board to help fix this mess? Will the "support the president no matter what" radio hate-jockeys suddenly change their tune? Will the American people actually make the sacrifices that are going to be required to put the nation back on solid footing?
Time will tell.
Good luck, America. Good luck Mr President. Congress and Senate, good luck. You're all going to need every ounce of courage, common sense, fortitude and bipartisanship you've got.
Good fucking riddance.
Now comes the monumental task of repairing the untold damage: two failing wars, a collapsed economy, nightmarish levels of debt, destroyed credibility overseas and a tattered Constitution amongst other debacles.
Will the Republicans be on-board to help fix this mess? Will the "support the president no matter what" radio hate-jockeys suddenly change their tune? Will the American people actually make the sacrifices that are going to be required to put the nation back on solid footing?
Time will tell.
Good luck, America. Good luck Mr President. Congress and Senate, good luck. You're all going to need every ounce of courage, common sense, fortitude and bipartisanship you've got.
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OnTheWayOut
He'll rehash and milk things for years ........he didn't research and find all those buzzwords and catch phrases just to dump em all .......... it's not like he can come up with anything new or original just like that! *lol*Cinema Face said:Hey Woody, what are you going to do with all your free time now that there’s no more Bush bashing posts to write? Your boy is in and the world is now perfect.
LOL!!!slurp said:
Hey slurp....
Talking about 'milking' things, isn't it about time to give Corn Flake his 'milking' then slurp it all up!.....
Apparently we aren't the only ones ...
This from Huffingon Post:
Bush was given an Iraqi-journalist-style sendoff on his last full day in office Monday, as tourists and demonstrators lobbed shoes, pumps, boots, sandals and Crocs from Pennsylvania Avenue onto the White House lawn.
Before launching the operation live, the shoe-chuckers took target practice in Dupont Circle on a 20-foot-tall blow up doll of the outgoing president, decked out in the flight suit he wore aboard the "Mission Accomplished" aircraft carrier.
Unlike Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi reporter who inspired the protest, none of the shoe-throwers in the group were arrested. (Later that day, reports NBC, one man was arrested for chucking a shoe at the White House.)
Marching down Connecticut Avenue with handfuls of footwear, the group of about a hundred was on the receiving end of enthusiastic honks, thumbs-up and waves from people in the street.
The reception was almost as warm from the people guarding the White House.
"Don't hit me!" one officer behind the White House fence joked as shoes rained around him.
Tracey Primavera, a shoe-lobber from Provincetown, Massachusetts, shouted at the guard that she had a pump that would look nice on him.
"I tried that. It didn't look good on me," yelled back the officer. Primavera tossed him the pump anyway.
Tourists on Pennsylvania Avenue picked up shoes and lobbed them at the White House as well. "A lot of random people joined in," noted one organizer, David Swanson. "Everybody wanted to be photographed with an "Arrest Bush" sign.
The tourists also joined a spontaneous chorus that formed. On the night of the election, thousands of people swarmed the White House and sang the old sports classic, "Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye." The song made a reappearance Monday, as did a number of tunes apparently written for the occasion, with lyrics such as "Hang down your head, George Bush/Hang down your head in shame," and "Take him to the Hague" -- the latter sung to the tune of "Working on the Railroad."
The target practice on the giant Bush doll began around 11:00 in the morning and was still going five hours later, as thousands of people walking through the circle stopped to pick up a shoe and wing it at the outgoing president. Some threw fastballs like al-Zaidi. Others tied several together in an attempt to land them on Bush's long Pinocchio-esque nose. Children took part. ("Okay. One more shoe, kids," said one parent.) Some folks simply walked up to the doll and kicked it in the shins. It fell over at one point and people rushed it, beating it with shoes.
Still others, like al-Zaidi, missed.
"Ah! I missed!" yelled Sharon Kerr, in town from Austin, Texas, after chucking wide of her presidential mark. She said that she felt a little like the Iraqi reporter for missing. But she noted in his defense, "He had people blocking him."
Kerr began to leave the circle but stopped. "I'm gonna go one more time. I'm gonna nail him this time," she said before winding up and striking him cleanly in the belt.
Cheryl Upshaw, in from Atlanta and sporting a full-length fur coat, hit the Bush doll high on the shoulder. "I was really trying to aim for his heart," said Upshaw, a registered nurse who owns a home healthcare agency. The throw was cathartic, she said, and it seemed to relieve some of her anger.
"It's not that I hate him," she clarified. "I don't hate him personally. I hate what he has done to this country."
Medea Benjamin, a cofounder of the antiwar group CODEPINK, said the protest was a way to "get the Bush era out of your intestines."
"I was a little reluctant because I want to be in a positive mood," she said. "I don't want to be seen as doing something violent. The shoe-throwing is borderline, but the intent is to insult, not to hurt. There's a fine line."
Once all the shoes had been tossed onto the White House lawn, the officers collected them and piled them into the back of a small truck. "The next person who throws them gets arrested," said one, though the entire pile had already been thrown.
As the protesters headed back toward Dupont Circle, a Secret Service agent left them with a parting observation.
"You all won," he said.
Some have speculated that Dubya will have a problem finding gigs now - but if he goes into the used shoe business he ought to be set for life!!
This from Huffingon Post:
Bush was given an Iraqi-journalist-style sendoff on his last full day in office Monday, as tourists and demonstrators lobbed shoes, pumps, boots, sandals and Crocs from Pennsylvania Avenue onto the White House lawn.
Before launching the operation live, the shoe-chuckers took target practice in Dupont Circle on a 20-foot-tall blow up doll of the outgoing president, decked out in the flight suit he wore aboard the "Mission Accomplished" aircraft carrier.
Unlike Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi reporter who inspired the protest, none of the shoe-throwers in the group were arrested. (Later that day, reports NBC, one man was arrested for chucking a shoe at the White House.)
Marching down Connecticut Avenue with handfuls of footwear, the group of about a hundred was on the receiving end of enthusiastic honks, thumbs-up and waves from people in the street.
The reception was almost as warm from the people guarding the White House.
"Don't hit me!" one officer behind the White House fence joked as shoes rained around him.
Tracey Primavera, a shoe-lobber from Provincetown, Massachusetts, shouted at the guard that she had a pump that would look nice on him.
"I tried that. It didn't look good on me," yelled back the officer. Primavera tossed him the pump anyway.
Tourists on Pennsylvania Avenue picked up shoes and lobbed them at the White House as well. "A lot of random people joined in," noted one organizer, David Swanson. "Everybody wanted to be photographed with an "Arrest Bush" sign.
The tourists also joined a spontaneous chorus that formed. On the night of the election, thousands of people swarmed the White House and sang the old sports classic, "Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye." The song made a reappearance Monday, as did a number of tunes apparently written for the occasion, with lyrics such as "Hang down your head, George Bush/Hang down your head in shame," and "Take him to the Hague" -- the latter sung to the tune of "Working on the Railroad."
The target practice on the giant Bush doll began around 11:00 in the morning and was still going five hours later, as thousands of people walking through the circle stopped to pick up a shoe and wing it at the outgoing president. Some threw fastballs like al-Zaidi. Others tied several together in an attempt to land them on Bush's long Pinocchio-esque nose. Children took part. ("Okay. One more shoe, kids," said one parent.) Some folks simply walked up to the doll and kicked it in the shins. It fell over at one point and people rushed it, beating it with shoes.
Still others, like al-Zaidi, missed.
"Ah! I missed!" yelled Sharon Kerr, in town from Austin, Texas, after chucking wide of her presidential mark. She said that she felt a little like the Iraqi reporter for missing. But she noted in his defense, "He had people blocking him."
Kerr began to leave the circle but stopped. "I'm gonna go one more time. I'm gonna nail him this time," she said before winding up and striking him cleanly in the belt.
Cheryl Upshaw, in from Atlanta and sporting a full-length fur coat, hit the Bush doll high on the shoulder. "I was really trying to aim for his heart," said Upshaw, a registered nurse who owns a home healthcare agency. The throw was cathartic, she said, and it seemed to relieve some of her anger.
"It's not that I hate him," she clarified. "I don't hate him personally. I hate what he has done to this country."
Medea Benjamin, a cofounder of the antiwar group CODEPINK, said the protest was a way to "get the Bush era out of your intestines."
"I was a little reluctant because I want to be in a positive mood," she said. "I don't want to be seen as doing something violent. The shoe-throwing is borderline, but the intent is to insult, not to hurt. There's a fine line."
Once all the shoes had been tossed onto the White House lawn, the officers collected them and piled them into the back of a small truck. "The next person who throws them gets arrested," said one, though the entire pile had already been thrown.
As the protesters headed back toward Dupont Circle, a Secret Service agent left them with a parting observation.
"You all won," he said.
Some have speculated that Dubya will have a problem finding gigs now - but if he goes into the used shoe business he ought to be set for life!!
