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August 30, 2006

Fall Theater Preview: Bush Con American Tour '06

By Kanrei

As we approach the next anniversary of the September 11th attacks of 2001, we know certain things are coming, and we look forward to none of them. We know that every news station will be ignoring any events that have the bad luck of falling on September 11th 2006 because “News” will be concentrating on the past instead. We know every politician is going to make heart wrenching speeches that appear on the surface to address the families, but are really more campaign speeches for the November elections. We also know that Bush, like clockwork will be giving his annual “I am not tying Iraq to 9-11, it is just coincidence I am starting my support campaign at this time again this year
tour.

Bush’s past strategy for convincing America this war is a good thing has been as effective as his plans for the occupation of Iraq. He has gone on two ineffective tours so far, with a third starting this week. The past two tours, both around the time of bad poll numbers (another coincidence from a President who never looks at polls) focused on the positive that was occurring in Iraq. The November/ December ’05 Selling the Drama tour was to convince the American people that the war we won in 43 days was winnable 3 years later. I hear that a man will land on the moon in 1969 too. Then in March, series two started dealing mainly with the progress of the Iraqis. (W)e saw the capability of the Iraqi security forces [and] the determination of many of Iraq’s leaders”. The nation’s answer to both these tours was a resounding “great, then bring the troops home.”

This was not the answer Bush was hoping for, so he will have to go on tour number three just around the fifth anniversary of September 11th. Gee, what a great break in an election year that his party is favored to lose big in.

August 31st marks the beginning of “Bush Con America Tour 06” and is kicking off at the annual American Legion convention in Utah and continues through around the middle of September. The reports are that this should be a hot show and tickets will be going fast.

After negative reviews for the show’s trial run, Bush and company have reworked the entire script and are taking the story in a new direction they are sure will thrill audiences around the world. Of course it is fully possible that the show’s trial runs were the result of bad casting with Donald “Known Knowns” Rumsfeld in the starting roll. This tour they return to the headliner cast and promises to be more of a “downer” in terms of the emotional appeal, but that is what this 5 year anniversary election year tour calls for. According to the Wall Street Journal, Bush is “likely to talk more about the importance of winning and how the U.S. is adapting to the changing nature of the struggle against terrorism in Iraq and beyond”. Winning something already won; priceless irony.

A senior administration official also said in the WSJ terrorism is on the minds of Americans, and as we go into the fifth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks, it’s appropriate and necessary that the nation continue to hear about the state of the war and the nature of our enemy” Nothing like blurring the line between separate realities when it serves a larger purpose. Who cares if one has nothing to do with the other? In fact, it reminds me a little of that master of the lie Goebbels and his famous quote:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism until we overthrew Saddam. We left a power vacuum that Iran filled with their people. Now they are free to build all the nukes they want because they never feared us, they feared Saddam. They used us to take him out and Bush’s Oedipus fixation allowed him to do it. I mean the stupid neo-cons put their plans on the internet for all to see under P.N.A.C.

The truly disgusting part is that none of this is Bush’s fault as usual. Just like no one expected the levies to break and no one expected planes to be used as missiles, this one has nothing to do with him either. Turns out that Bush is going to “remind” the American people that the day-to-day handling of this war is being run by the military and not him; it is their fault, not his. Kind of like me not giving you enough food or water and leaving you in the desert to find your way out and then I blame you for starving to death. He cares nothing for the troops. They are a distraction for him. They distract us from him and they distract the terrorists from America. We are not safe because of Iraq; he has just given them a closer target. He say so himself when he says that the “enemy will follow us home.”

This president has “jumped the shark” long ago. His denial of reality is borderline psychotic in my untrained and completely amateur opinion. He is a third rate Baghdad Bob in his insistence that Iraq is a part of the war on terrorism. Bob was atleast funny. This is simply him trying to save face in the history books now. He does not want to be one of the few American presidents to lose a war after being the first one to start a pre-emptive one.

Comments on "Fall Theater Preview: Bush Con American Tour '06"

 

Blogger Rex Zeitgeist said ... (8/30/2006 9:42 PM) : 

OH MY GOD....Where does one even start with such mish mash....very well written, but woefully incorrect on ever single level. Lets start here;

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”


This could be the offical democrat slogan on the decade. The TRUTH is there have been zero Islamic terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11 2001. And the dems have alomst nothing to do with that. Cretins like Howeird Dean would trade your childrens lives for a vote. PERIOD.

Next pretendiong Saddam Husseins Iraq wasn't a terrorist factory is laughable revisionist history, a lie repeated so often that people are starting to beleive it. Saddam lived only to get revenge on the US, he told anyone and everyone on earth that he was going to get us.
He wasn't joking.

He was heavily involved with several branches of Al Queda, he paid money to homicide bombers, he ran terrorist training camps, his entire secret police service was a TERRORIST5 ORGANIZATION. He tried to kill an ex President, he murdered over 1 milion people. His hero was Stalin and he wanted to emulate him. Saddam killed anyone with impunity, he was plotting destruction and terror, no amount of wishing and throwing nickles into politically expediant wells is going to change that reality.

Anyone who believes Saddam was 'contained' has their head way up their butt. Ask Clinton and Richard Clarke what they thought of Saddam. Saddam was a bloodthirsty madman, a genocidal freak with demons for offspring. The only lie that has been repeated enough to make it beleivable to the masses was that Saddam was not a threat.

Great article though.....

 

Blogger Unknown said ... (8/30/2006 9:47 PM) : 

Thank you and let's rock =P

The purpose of the Nazi quote may be lost and I might have to remove it. I was comparing it to the administration offical's comments of tying Iraq to the war on terror.

There were zero Isalmic terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1993-2001 was well. Would you then say Clinton was effective against terror? I would not.

Saddam was certainly a bad man, but not the badest kid on the block. I would love to play chess with Bush because he does not think more than 2 moves ahead. A smart man would have taken on Iran with Saddam still around to give Iran more to worry about. There would NEVER be an alliance between those two. Saddam would even probably have worked with us hoping to end the sanctions. THen wwe could take him out.

 

Blogger Rex Zeitgeist said ... (8/30/2006 9:59 PM) : 

No matter what you think of GWs intellect (which is silly beyond beleif) he is a two time Presidnet....I dare anyone outside of Bill Clinton to compare resumes.......

It is widely regarded that George HW Bush was one the most intellegent presidents in US history. He served one term. It is widely beleived that Jeb Bush is one of the most intellegent men to EVER serve in politics. (he had a straight 4.0 in college) The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Yet it is easy for people in underwear to call him a 'dumb dumb'....Next time someone wants to question GWs intellect, take a look at what you have acomplished in life and put it up against his.

 

Blogger Rex Zeitgeist said ... (8/30/2006 10:02 PM) : 

As far as Saddam 'working with us' please read the history of Sadam again. He broke every single UN resolution ever placed on him. Sadam laughed at the US, the UN ,IEAE, and every other world body. The only thing Saddam would have done one sanctions were lfted was go back to plotting genocied and developing WMD.

Saddam was more than a bad guy, he was billionaire serial killer who washed himself in the blood of the innocent.

 

Blogger Unknown said ... (8/30/2006 10:03 PM) : 

"A smart man would have taken on Iran with Saddam still around to give Iran more to worry about. "

Not what I mean. I have said repeatedly I believe he is smart and devious instead of stupid and clumsey. I did not mean a smart man as in he is stupid, I mean a smart man as in a cunning man. I do not think Bush is good at planning. His resume is filled with failures for the most part. He is not a big picture guy. His father is. His brother is. He is not. He is smart and devious, but does not think 3 moves ahead is all I mean.

 

Blogger Unknown said ... (8/30/2006 10:04 PM) : 

Saddam would even probably have worked with us hoping to end the sanctions. THen wwe could take him out.

Read it all. I was not saying to leave Saddam in power AFTER Iran is taken care of.

 

Blogger Unknown said ... (8/30/2006 10:05 PM) : 

Bush sees the domino pattern and is correct in what he sees, he just keeps hitting the wrong domino to start the chain and wonders why it isn't working.

 

Blogger RexZeitgeist said ... (8/30/2006 11:01 PM) : 

Saddam 'is' a serial killer, do you think we should appease serial kilers? Tell guys like Dahmer or gacy its ok to kill, but we are going to garnish your wages from the cracker factory.

Saddam is insane, he hs been since chidhood...I am sure he would find the lefts obsession with 'softening' his image hilarious. His 1,000,000+ victims would not.

And if you think George Bush is a 'failure' (stifling chortle), I have no idea what to tell ya....

 

Blogger Unknown said ... (8/30/2006 11:11 PM) : 

This leap to Gacy is quite a jump. Evil Kanevil worthy almost. What I am saying is that in the global scheme of Bush' Axis of Evil, he picked the exact wrong place to start. He did not plan this out at all.

 

Blogger Rex Zeitgeist said ... (8/31/2006 2:27 AM) : 

Kanrei, Kanrei, Kanrei.........

Regime change has been offical US policy since 1998 and we have been at war with Iraq since January 1991......George W. Bush didn't just make up Saddams crimes aganist humanity, nor did Bill Clinton, nor George HW Bush......

You are right, John Wayne Gacy isn't a good comparison, he only killed 33 people where as Saddam killed 100s of 1000nds......

 

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