Decaf wrote:truthhurts wrote:
Decaf wrote:
What this bombastic fool is trying to tell us is that he believes George Bush is an evil dictator, and religious conservatives are his unwitting slaves.
Well, I would not exactly say Bush is evil. Cheney perhaps, but not Bush. Bush is just a fool who thinks God is personally leading him, that this makes him the ultimate decider and therefore immune from mistakes, and the hell with anyone else's opinions or evidence that suggests corrections need to be made to past mistakes. I fear he has one more really, really, really stupid "God is leading me...I am the decider, I know what is best" move left in him before he leaves office regarding Iran. You think oil is high now? Hold on to your wallet.
As for religious (and not so religious) conservatives being his slaves, that has been the case in the past. Like a bunch of lemmings being led to the cliff. Speaking of that cliff, we have the deepening recession, oil and gas through the roof, inflation moving up, the tensions with Iran, Afghanistan re-igniting, Iraq, and the list goes on and on. And still, those lemmings follow, chanting "Yes master, yes, master." All Bush has to say is "The terrorists are coming to get us, follow me, I will protect you", and the lemmings, oblivious to everything else, chant "Yes master, yes, master, whatever you say must be right."
If it was not so damn sad, it would be funny.
Just blame it all on Bush and Cheney huh? Tell me Hurts, what have the Democrats done to stop this so-called mess?Kinda like asking the accountants why they have not fixed the mess the CEO and his staff made. The CEO in this case is George W. Bush. The President is the one primarily in charge of national security, and boy, has he made a total mess of that.
Whose watch did 9/11 occur on? Bush's
Who had been specifically warned about al Qaeda by the outgoing Clinton Administration? The Bush Administration. The warnings came from Richard Clarke as well as George Tenet. Further, he got another briefing on August 6, 2001 while on vacation at his ranch. Remember, Bush spent almost the whole month before 9/11 on vacation. He has set a record for Presidential vacations, but that's another story. Anyway, here is some info on that meeting:
President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.
The warning came in a secret briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a "closely held intelligence report" that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.NY Times ArticleWhat was the result of these warnings Bush received? Well, we all saw the twin towers come down, didn't we? Guess he was playing too much golf. No wonder he quit.
Who pulled resources off chasing bin Laden (the guy who was responsible for 9/11) and the Taliban in Afghanistan to go on a wild goose chase in Iraq? Bush
Who vastly underestimated the resources that would be needed to do that, and the length of time it would take, if it could ever even be successful at all? Bush
Who failed to make the connection that taking Saddam out would embolden Iran? Bush
Who started torturing detainees, and has been trying to make end runs around the Constitution ever since? Bush.
And on the domestic front, who kept cutting taxes on the rich as the deficit kept going up and up and up, and the value of the dollar down and down and down, as we had to borrow money from China to fund the government? Bush, with help from the majority (at the time) Republican Congress.
Who has the policy that "all regulation is bad", which led to, among other things, our current mess with housing and foreclosures? Bush. Why regulate the lenders? Well, we found out why, didn't we?
And who, the whole time all of this was going on, kept saying, more or less, "Yes master, whatever you say. You are the Decider, we will follow and not question"? That would be you, Decaf, and those like you. The folks who voted for him twice and who still think, even remotely, that he has a clue. You're a lemming, Decaf. Does that truth hurt?
Further, the fact that you refer to our our present situation as a "so-called mess" just goes to show how far out in Loopy-ville you are. You are not just a lemming that is following the "Pied-Piper of Destruction" (Bush) to the cliff, you (along with Raymond, RushReader, and a few others) are part of the advance party that has already gone over it.
Now as for how the Democrats will attempt to clean the mess up when they have control of Congress (they don't now, a slim majority is not control by any stretch of the imagination) and when we have a Democrat in the White House, we'll just have to wait and see, won't we? That will be in January 2009
