September 17, 2004 

 

 

 

 

Once again our illustrious leader takes a fact, deliberately manipulates it and feeds it back to us poor stupid citizens.  Mr. Bush made an amazing speech at the Republican Convention about how well the situation was progressing in Iraq.  Flowery adjectives flowed as his audience jumped to their feet cheering their war time Commander-in-Chief for his correctness in invading Iraq and his magnificent handling of the occupation.  Star struck journalists, overcome by emotion couldn’t find strong enough statements to describe President Bush’s performance.  Here is where I get to enjoy a “yeah, but” to my Republican friends.

 

When Mr. Bush presented his rosy picture of the positive situation in Iraq, he knew he was lying.  He had received a classified National Intelligence Estimate in late July that spelled out a bleak outcome for Iraq’s future.  The results of this extremely pessimistic report are in complete opposition to what the president wants us to believe. 

 

Out of three rotten possibilities, the best estimate is a tenuous stability in political, economic and security terms.  The worst possibility is the onset of a civil war.  So, . . .We are spending a million dollars a day, over a thousand of our military personnel have died, thousands of our young men and women have been wounded, there are no WMD’s, the majority of the world hates us, there were incalculable civilian casualties, insurrection is increasing daily, there are now more terrorist cells than ever and the best we can hope for is a tenuous situation.  From this our leader extracts the basis for his acceptance speech.

 

Mr. Bush appeared before a unit of the National Guard this week and repeated the same pathetic lies in his efforts to prove his capability as a “war” president.  He and his posse of similarly conscience deprived  individuals have no qualms about their lying.  Lying to fool voters is a good thing.  Why confuse us with too many real facts?  This tight little group does not need the approval of their public.  Only they know what is best and what is best is to keep the undeserving masses in the dark.  A new day has dawned and guess just who gets to play king?

 

 

 

 

A multiple choice

 

 

President Bush is:

A.     A liar

B.     Delusional

C.     Arrogant

D.     Under-qualified

E.     The worst president in the history of our country

F.      All of the above

 

 

The Answer

All of the above

 

 

September 19, 2004

 

Things Bothering Me Today

 

 

A National Guard unit from South Carolina now awaiting deployment from Fort Dix in New Jersey had to have a disciplinary lockdown.  The battalion is scheduled to leave for a year or more in Iraq.  These soldiers will be based in Northern Kuwait and will escort supply convoys into Iraq which is one of the most hazardous of all assignments.  As of today the Pentagon is relying on the National Guard and the Reserves to provide 40% of the troop strength in the escalating hostilities.  Over the last two months the troops have received only 36 hours of leave.  The base commander claims ugly confrontations and brawls forced the lockdown.  These civilian soldiers have not been able to say a proper good bye to their families.  They are also complaining the accelerated two month training fails to put them at the same level of preparedness as regular army troops.  Fear and resentment seem to be the direct cause of the volatile situation at Fort Dix.

 

Does it occur to anyone else that our president has made a mess of the situation in Iraq?  Does anyone else see how this situation is only going to get worse?  If our troops are demoralized before even leaving our shores, what shape will they be in after 12, 18, 24 or 36 months?

 

In his radio address yesterday President Bush assured Americans of the continuing improvement of the situation in Iraq.  He also told us violence would be escalating.

 

I go around saying Huh quite a bit lately.  It’s better, it’s worse, the future is bright, we’re safer, we still face danger – I wish our leader would come up with just one coherent message which I don’t have to replay over and over in an attempt to understand.  He of course refused to address the official report he’s had since July which emphatically states the future is pretty grim.

 

The president is making his third trip south in response to the hurricane damage.

 

My heart goes out to all those affected by the horrible coincidence of three major hurricanes hitting the south this year but Mr. Bush you can’t do anything on a personal level for these poor people.  You being photographed handing out ice will make a great publicity picture for your resume but is getting in the way of the serious efforts being made by these people to recover.  Instead of burning up tax payer money to fly you to Florida on Air Force One, use the cash to help rebuild affected areas.  Instead of showing up stay out of the way.  They don’t need you and your hordes of security measures.  Stay home.

 

For the first time in our history outside monitors will be watch dogs during our presidential election on November 2^nd. 

 

We have now become a banana republic.  Why doesn’t that frighten anyone else?

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

September 20, 2004

 

Forty three days to go!

 

 

Forty three days from today Americans will cast their votes for our next president.  I can’t think of a time when the result of an election will have such an impact on our futures.   A vote for the Kerry/Edwards ticket is a vote for responsible government policies.

 

Today Senator John Kerry gave a rousing speech before an audience at New York University which included families of 9/11 victims.  Showing America a visage of strength and resolve, Senator Kerry totally debunked Bush’s new rationale for war as well as Bush’s rosy but ridiculous claim of our ongoing successes in Iraq.  The president was accused, and rightly so, of making the wrong choices which make us more, not less, vulnerable to terrorist attack.  While Senator Kerry admitted the Congressional vote giving the president authority to use force in Iraq was correct, the president misused the authority by invading prematurely, without a real coalition, with faulty intelligence and with no plan to address the problems in a post war country.  Compounding his incompetence, the president persistently lies to us about the long term prognosis.

 

Far from turning this speech into just a “Bush blew it” rant, John Kerry outlined four immediate steps to be taken, if we are to have any chance of changing the impending disaster.

 

First:  This week we must move to get real international support.

 

Second: Get serious about training Iraqi security forces.

 

Third: Get the Iraqi reconstruction plan in gear.

 

Fourth: Take immediate, urgent, essential steps to guarantee the promised elections next year.

 

This was a John Kerry who looked and spoke like our next president.  Every single undecided voter has to read Senator Kerry’s speech in its entirety if they want to make a decision without the slant of the media.

 

 

 

 

 

October 1, 2004

 

Today has been a busy day for me as I wrote letters to all the major media outlets.  Needless to say, John Kerry hit a home run last evening proving how important it is for us to cast our vote for him.  The performance of our sitting president was not only pathetic but scary.  This is our leader.  This is a man who impacts our lives in very important ways.  This is a man who couldn’t string two sentences together without a teleprompter, not even if his life depended on it.   The only thing he was able to convince me of last night was the importance of learning.  President Bush is a poster boy for illiteracy.  Laura, you really should give your husband some remedial lessons.

 

The following is the letter I sent to the New York Times entitled, “The Alternate Universe of George Bush”.

 

I watched the debate last evening totally convinced John Kerry not only won the debate but admirably demonstrated the qualities which we should be demanding from any candidate aspiring to the highest office in our nation.  Senator Kerry logically laid out his plans to safeguard America against terrorist attack.  He shared with us a common sense approach which would end the quagmire in Iraq.  He looked and sounded presidential.  This was a man I could gladly trust.

 

In stark contrast, George Bush was incoherent, stumbling, peevish and smug.  I was left with the impression he had been primed with five responses which he dutifully regurgitated on cue throughout the evening disregarding the actual questions posed by the moderator.  As I retired last evening, the polls I checked all agreed – John Kerry won the debate hands down.  There could be no other reasonable conclusion.  I was wrong.  When I awoke this morning the “spin patrol” had been very busy working the media, who seem to eagerly acquiesce.  Now we are being told President Bush was articulate and on message.  What message?  I was embarrassed by our president’s performance.  At times he rambled on leaving me perplexed as to what he was trying to say.  This president has spent a lot of time trying to convince us of the correctness of every one of his decisions, especially the decision to invade Iraq.  He clearly lacks the ability to defend his decisions in a clear coherent manner.  The message he sent me as he smirked into the cameras was – “I am the president.  Who are you to second guess me?”

 

 

A few minor points for President Bush

 

Doing, going seeing, lying, bombing all end with a “g”.  It is not doin, goin, seein, lyin, or bombing.

 

It is pronounced….nu-cle-ar!  If you can’t pronounce it just say “big bomb”, we’ll get it.

 

It is. ….pro-lif-er-a’tion.  Again, if you can’t pronounce it don’t use it.

 

Peninsula has no “h”.

 

It is “I am going to show you” not “I’m goin ta show ya’.

 

When you’re at the podium….Stand up straight.  You looked like you were melting.

 

Knock off that “I’ve climbed the mountain” nonsense.  Unless Washington, DC has had a change to their topography, you don’t have a mountain there. 

 

Do us all a favor; call in your answers next week.

 

  

 

October 3, 2004

 

 

Miscellaneous Thoughts

 

 

Excuses, excuses

 

The Bushites continue to advance more and more of their sad reasons their candidate blew the debate.  Those who are still convinced of Mr. Bush’s win are in a separate delusional category of their own – you know like Cheney still believing his own story about WMD’s. Some of the more amusing:

Mr. Bush was tired from all the work he did helping the residents of Florida recover from the hurricane damage.

He was tired because he usually goes to bed at 9:30 PM

His lighting was bad

He was nervous speaking in front of a crowd

John Kerry cheated

The TV cameras weren’t supposed to be on him when he wasn’t speaking

 

Feeling sorry for the president, I offer him a few more he has my permission to use:

English is my second language

Laura forgot to starch my shirt

I didn’t realize John Kerry would share the stage with me

The questions were hard

I didn’t have my cheering section

I had to answer questions on my own because

the Big Dick was busy scaring voters

The podium kept moving, so I had to hold on tight

I’ve never had to answer questions before

Karl Rove told me Kerry had laryngitis and would have to mime his answers

Kerry cheated by using big words like nuclear, proliferation and peninsula

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first it is, then it’s not spin

 

Did you notice before the debate, its outcome was made out to be Kerry’s last stand?  All the pundits agreed it was Kerry’s last chance to even remain in the running.  It was also agreed by the media to be just the icing on the sure fire re-election of Bush.  The next day we are told by these same geniuses that debates mean nothing.  They apparently prove nothing.    HUH?

 

When the president received a sizable bump in numbers after the convention, we were told Kerry couldn’t possibly catch up.  Polls never lie.  Bush’s re-election was a sure thing.  Team Bush – Karen Hughes, Karl Rove, Bob Novak, etc., etc. couldn’t stop themselves from gloating.  They were so smug, thinking they had proven themselves the winner.  Kerry beats the hell out of Bush in the first debate and sure enough Kerry is accused of gloating, proving once and for all how despicable he is.    HUH?

Kerry’s numbers now show him in a dead heat with Bush and we are told polls mean nothing.    HUH?

 

Can you believe the parody being sold to us as impartial journalism?

 

 

October 7, 2004

 

I attended the burial of my friend Jose yesterday.  More accurately, his remains were interred.  On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, the coroner’s office of New York City, using DNA finally identified Jose’s remains.  It took three years after his death on 9/11 for the process to be completed.  My friend Jody and her children have existed in a sort of limbo since that day.  Yesterday that chapter in their lives has finally closed and they and we his friends will begin the healing process. 

 

For me, part of that healing will have to include dealing with my fury towards our current president and his administration.  As a matter of fact I can’t remember ever being as infuriated as I am at Mr. Bush and his cabinet of evil incompetents.  I personally believe he is the worst president in the long history of our republic.  I also believe he has damaged our country more than any other of his 42 predecessors. 

 

I accuse him of being partially responsible for the attacks on 9/11.  If not for his total dismissal of any “Clinton” policy perhaps he would have better understood the unstable hotbed of the Mideast.

 

I detest his smugness in light of his lack of knowledge or intellectual curiosity.  Perhaps if Mr. Bush had displayed a little interest in geopolitics, he could have chosen better, more constructive methods of fighting terrorism.

 

I accuse him of not showing the slightest interest in the PDB memo of August 2001 which warned of an imminent threat of attack.

 

I accuse him of surrounding himself with the likes of Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and Rice, self serving egotists with agendas of their own.

 

I resent the hell out of the fact that Ms. Rice dismissed that PDB as “historic” which insults my intelligence not to mention distorting the English language.

 

I will never forgive him for using 9/11 as his own personal campaign strategy, basically using the tragedy which includes many of my personal friends as some sort of photo op.

 

I find it reprehensible not just that he lied to involve us in an unnecessary and unjust invasion of Iraq but by the fact that his lies led to a mounting death toll both to our troops and to innocent Iraqi civilians.

 

I accuse him of creating a hostile split among Americans, dividing us along ideological lines.  He thrives on discord and that makes him a disseminator of strife.

 

I accuse both Bush and Cheney of continuing their chicanery about Saddam, WMD’s and Iraq’s connection to 9/11 after these assertions were definitively proven false.  Because of these two willful prevaricators, 40% of Americans still believe Saddam and 9/11 are unequivocally linked.

 

I accuse the Bush administration of creating a false sense of security as a re-election boast when they know we are no safer today than we were on 9/11.

 

I accuse the Bush contingent of conveniently raising and lowering the terror alert to change poll numbers.

 

I detest their use of fear to galvanize Americans into voting Republican.

 

I accuse Bush of being a caricature of an American hero, dressed up in a flight suit pretending to be a strong warrior.  Sorry George, you had your chance during the Vietnam War and you do not get to re-invent yourself as some sort of comic book superhero.

 

I accuse Bush of putting our fighting men and women in dire jeopardy by his childish dare to the insurgents of “bring ‘em on”.  How dare he?

 

I strongly suggest Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are small minded, dictatorial tyrants, interested in the furtherance of their own power base and the continued well being of their wealthy cohorts.

 

I accuse this administration of bringing our country to the brink of an abyss with our demise as a strong, principled nation a real possibility.

 

Finally, I am disgusted at this administration for throwing away the lives of those lost on 9/11 for some personal crusade.  They have much to answer for.  Hopefully when Mr. Bush is fired on 11/02 he will use his suddenly empty days for introspection.  I take that back – he’s too shallow for introspection.  He’ll just stamp their feet and whine.