THE PRICE OF ABYSMAL IGNORANCE

[Zlatko Waterman]

Quote from "President" Bush yesterday at Riga, Latvia:
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"Some doubt whether the people of that region are ready for freedom, or want it badly enough, or have the courage to overcome the forces of totalitarian extremism," Bush said in the Latvian capital Riga where he is attending a NATO summit. "I understand these doubts but I do not share them."

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The "leader" of the U.S. and his father starve, brutalize and deprive hundreds of thousands, probably millions of citizens of another country
( Iraq) for twelve years, then fly in bombers and demolish their cities physically, send in armies utterly ignorant of their culture to rape and murder their daughters and their families, to torture people later found innocent and released, permit looting that destroys priceless masterpieces, install puppet governments and occupy that country militarily with awesome weapons and over a hundred thousand soldiers for longer than the U.S. was involved in World War II.

Now the "leader" of the U.S. makes public statements such as:
" . . .Some doubt whether the people of that region are ready for freedom . . .(and) " have the courage . . ."

Were I still a teacher, I would flunk George W. Bush so fast in my History or Political Science class my pencil would burn a hole in the grade card marking the "F" box.

Better yet, I would bounce him out of my university, had he ever been admitted without his father's leverage in the first place.

Are these the "family values" Las Vegas High Roller Bill Bennett, "morals" guru for the Bush administration espoused? I have read THE BOOK OF VIRTUES and can guarantee they are not:

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Virtues-Trea ... 0671683063


I have have seen ignorance, blundering incompetence and arrogance in the Reagan and Nixon administrations, imperial hubris from Kissinger's state department, but I have never seen or heard the plug-ugly and criminal vacancy that is the stock and trade of this White House administration.

And this is a man who was "elected" in 2004 with the "electorate" capable of informing itself about his malfeasance and stupidity?

What is wrong with this country?


--Z

[Arcadia]

maybe the freedom airs of Latvia affected his peculiar brain, who knows..
I only know that when you start to talk about "this country" instead of "my country" you are in extreme angry, bored and disappointed...!
He's so Menem/like (but with more power to massive desaster, of course).

[hester_prynne]

Since George Bush has been in office every single American Ideal has been cheapened and stupified.

We need a new list of ideals now that the old ones have been murdered.

You know Zlatko, I can't even look at any of them, in magazines, in newspapers, or on tv. Literally, I get sick to my stomach at the stupidity.
The only time I can stomach bush is when Dave Letterman does his clip on him, and even then it's iffy.

I am a silenced roar of protest.
A paralyzed geminileoscorpio lion, stuck in mid-pounce.
There's no fuckin where to land.....!

H