George Bush The Deflector.
I was listening to “pacifica radio” and one of the guests pointed something out. George Bush doesn't lie, he subtle pushes the truth a few degrees off the mark. His example was that George Bush said that no one in his family had gotten him out of serving in Vietnam. This is absolutely true George Bush senior had called a neighbor who had called the head of the Texas Legislature and George was “in” the air national guard. ( I say in quotes here because well he didn't really put in all of the time required but hey he is the son of privilege so ...) I am dedicating this web site to translations from the Bush Presidency so the rest of us can read his statements to the press and really have a sense of the man and understand how it sounds inside his own head.
"My brother Jeb has assured me the state of Florida."
~George
W. Bush, 2000
Well this is pretty simple but at the time I was mystified, how could George Bush be so damn sure that his brother could deliver him Florida? Well as in so many things in his life it was pretty simple. His brother had changed the demographics in his state to more accurately reflect the republican party. By removing enough people from the rolls in Florida who would vote democratic he had taken the state and could count on it without the vote being counted. Read “The Best democracy money can buy” for a much more in depth analysis.
"We can't let this child come under the sway
of an isolationist, tyrannical state led by a self-obsessed
sociopath. By all means, send him back to Cuba."
-George
W. Bush
Here I have to admit George is being a little hard on himself.
"There ought to be limits to
freedom."
-George W. Bush
Now here what I think that he means that his political contributor have every freedom but the rest of use well will just have to learn to do without. There was a man who was protesting at an airport, with a sign that said something like “No War for Oil”, He is being charged with “threating the president of the United States”. He was protesting outside of the “free speech” zone. You may think that you can speak out freely in this country but you would be wrong and even if that is true you are going to beaten by the police along the way just to show you they can beat you.
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our
children learning?"
-George W. Bush
Here again I think Bush is a little hard on himself and Laura, sure there are the occasional run in with that law but I truly believe they are raising their kids right.
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot
easier-
so long as I'm the dictator."
~George W. Bush,
Dec. 19, 2000
Which brings us back to why the Bush's are so scary in the first place. Grandfather Bush got some of the seed money for the family fortune from a Nazi Germany. There are several book out that document this in great detail. I don't really care about that it's in the past but I'm not sure that Bush wouldn't rather rule in a “Banana Republic” as long as he was running the show there would be no problem, If you listen to “Pacifica Radio” archives there is at the core of this presidency a few good men who are called “Neo Conservatives”. They espouse a new world order were a few men rule by “divine right”. The sheep will have their religion and other pabulum but a few good men who are born to rule will take the reigns and keep them firmly in their grasp. We live in very scary times for this very reason. I think that smile you see play across Bush's face occasionally is the view that hey don't worry I am the king I have been raised up because I was trained my whole life for this. He is a multi-millionaire common man who tells what he wants you to hear but don't worry behind my rhetoric, “I am doing the right thing”, It looks all the time like I am running for office but that is not true. That a few multinational companies benefit is just happenstance. I am a little man just like you if you ignore a few extra digits behind my personal wealth. Trust me I know what it is like to work for a living although I never have really done anything like that.
"It isn't pollution that's harming the
environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing
it."
-George W. Bush
Read into this that Bush couldn't give a damn about the environment other than that at his ranch and if enough money came in maybe not even there. This administration doesn't care about the EPA they look at it as an obstruction in the way of getting things done.
Now let contrast the two George W. Bushes.
Governor George W. Bush yesterday criticized what he has called exercises in "nation building" and said he would only use force if U.S. territory or citizens, defense-alliance members or "friends in the Middle East" were threatened.
"I don’t think we can be all things to all people in the world," he said. Those arguments are often used by those opposing any U.S. military action in non-NATO, non-oil-producing nations. Bush has called for a review of U.S. commitments abroad.
Jim Lehrer asked:
If you're just going to - you know, the use of the military, there's - some people are now suggesting that if you don't want to use the military to maintain the peace, to do the civil thing, is it time to consider a civil force of some kind that comes in after the military that builds nations or all of that? Is that on your radar screen?
Governor Bush's response probably had military families standing up and cheering:
I don't think so. I think - I think what we need to do is convince people who live in the lands they live in to build the nations. Maybe I'm missing something here. I mean, we're going to have kind of a nation-building corps from America? Absolutely not.
Our military's meant to fight and win war. That's what it's meant to do. And when it gets over extended, morale drops.
Now of course "Post 9-11"
There's no doubt in my mind that when it's all said and done the facts will show the world the truth. There's going to be, you know, a lot of attempts to try to rewrite history, and I can understand that. But I'm absolutely confident in the decision I made.
--George W. Bush , Pretoria, South Africa, Jul. 9, 2003
There are some who feel that the conditions [in Iraq] are such that they can attack us there. My answer is "Bring 'em on!"
-- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jul. 2, 2003
These are two different point of view and I don't care that 9-11 happened these men are so far apart how could they live inside the same body if not for the fact that he has no core values. His is a puppet and the strings are pulled by men we don't even see. Men who have a vested interest in controlling Iraq long term regardless of the body bags that will roll home. You know I was sucked in by the candidate Bush I thought here is a decent if dim man. I was wrong on both counts he is a sharp individual with an eye for political opportunity. We are going to spend 3.9 Billion a month in Iraq and 700 Million a month in Afghanistan I wonder who will get the lions share of that. The military and civilian planners for the future of Iraq or the friends of the Bush campaign.
The argument for war.
JOSEPH WILSON, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ: My judgment on this is that if
they were referring to Niger when they were referring to uranium sales from
Africa to Iraq, that information was erroneous and that they knew about it well
ahead of both the publication of the British white paper and the president's
State of the Union Address.
SEN. CARL LEVIN (D), MICHIGAN: The Defense Department itself said that there
were shipments sought of uranium from Africa. They said that in December of
2002. So it wasn't just the president saying it in the State of the Union
message in January this year, but the Defense Department had said nine months
after this report from Joe Wilson, said in a printed document that was published
all over the country, that there were uranium shipments from Africa and that
that was the basis for proceeding against Saddam Hussein.
WILSON: Either the administration has some information that it has not shared
with the public, or yes, they were using the selective use of facts and
intelligence to bolster a decision in a case that had already been made, a
decision that had been made to go to war.
"These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president,"
Tenet said, referring to Bush's State of the Union speech in January.
Here Tenet eats a bullet for the team because he is out of politics. They will drive him out but in the end it should have been Dick Cheney he knew full well the that this information was bad and either kept it from the President or shared but either way he should have to get out of politics because he has defrauded us at least that is what Wilson would have us believe.
More later.
