So I wonder if Shrub will snort a few lines, knock over a few garbage cans, and then challenge Poppy to come outside and fight — mano a mano.
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October 22, 2005
WB: In the Name of the Father
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I’m at a slow connection, but I have to say “Let the good times roll!” It’s starting to look like something good may happen, and
amazingly, within the systemic structure. It’s too early to tell, but I suspect that there are many like me who are (laical analog of) praying that the Fitzgerald investigation will legitimate that tsunami
of disgust that has been building under the surface in the U.S. If this turns out to be just another muffled criticism or elaborate coverup of the underlying putrefaction the consequences may be closer to civil war than merely a general strike and social chaos in the U.S.
But, of course, I’m looking at this through eyes that have long since
“gone native” and adopted a non-American optic. My mind says Fitzgerald will be just another delusion but my heart is pounding with
desire for an justice.
Posted by: Anonymous | Oct 22 2005 6:33 utc | 1
Heart pounding made fingers slip: remove the “an” before justice.
Posted by: Anonymous | Oct 22 2005 6:35 utc | 2
Since he’s illiterate, wonder if he’ll even know. His Daddy & Mommy should have long since disowned him. Everyone knows, they can no longer evade the fact that They Have Destroyed the Country in 5 yrs. Now it’s just pile on time. Plus Everyone is goddamned SCARED. Who the bloody hell would ride in a Ferrari driven by a drunken Schizophrenic watching TV as he careens down the road at 100+mph?Also, I believe Scowcroft is speaking out, as he said he would, as NeoNuts are eyeing Syria & Iran.
I would expect that a lot of Very Top Level Players have spoken to Fitzy about the True Gravity of the Moment, all jokes aside.
Posted by: jj | Oct 22 2005 6:51 utc | 3
Fitzgerald doesn’t mix political, press or public consequences in with his prosecution. He just digs and digs and then presents the facts.
Now, I assure you that Condi, Cheney, Ledeen, Wolfowitz, Bolton, and Perle are all saying George ya just need to hit Syria, hit Iran and you can issue those pardons on a Friday night under the umbrella of bein’ a busy, busy War President who can’t be distracted from saving our great nation from the bad guys. Do it, George. Nuke Persia.
But Bush has come to distrust their infallibility a bit.
That’s a healthy thing. He’s holed up at Camp David this weekend with his new best friend, Andy Card, and is not likely to get “just nuke ’em” advice from Andy.
But Andy has no advice, no good news, no way out of this shitstorm. And Bush may find he has no option in the end but to go for the Nuke Persia option.
As much as Andy tries, he can’t turn around the losing hand Bush is holding. Bush may decide that he needs to tip over the card table and start shooting if he wants to live through this, politically.
That’s a dangerous thing — as dangerouse as putting a pair of pistols in the paws of a chimpanzee.
When the chimp has been drinking.
And nursing a real bad grudge.
Posted by: Antifa | Oct 22 2005 12:16 utc | 4
A Small Victory
Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
By JUSTINE DAVIDSON
On Monday, October 17th Gail Davidson and Howard Rubin along with Jason Gratl and Micheal Vonn representing B.C. Civil Liberties stepped into courtroom 55 of the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver with the hopes of lifting the publication ban which, since December of 2004 August, has kept the case out of the public eye. After a relatively short session of 45 minutes they emerged successful. “I don’t know that I would call it a victory quite yet,” said Ms. Davidson, “but it is at least a step in the right direction. People deserve to know what is happening here.”
What is happening is that Ms. Davidson and Lawyers Against the War have laid charges against George Bush Jr; accusing him of aiding, abetting, and counseling the commission of torture. This charge is based on the abuses of the prisoners held at the U.S. prisons in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and Abu-Ghraib, Iraq including Canadian minor Omar Khadr, who has been held in Cuba since 2001…
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 22 2005 13:40 utc | 5
In American political gang warfare you only go under when your own gang turns on you. See, e.g., Nixon after his chat with Barry Goldwater. The Newt. And they only turn on you when their own asses are on the line.
This is CYA work to save Bush The Lesser by blaming those around him, a preemptive shot to deflect the shit that has hit and is about to hit the fan at the Highest Levels. The puppet masters are coming up with a villian.
This is not a gift, it is a move to avoid accountablity for years of mortal sins. An American version of the show trial to save the Leader. They are trying to save the drunk who led the Kool Aid drinking.
Posted by: razor | Oct 22 2005 17:52 utc | 6
Poppy has been very busy arranging Unca Dick’s head on a platter for brother Jeb! George is just oblivious/drunk, but he can be persuaded to play along for the good of the family when the time comes.
Posted by: gylangirl | Oct 23 2005 1:11 utc | 7
Scowcraft and Wilkeson are the front men for the clean up team of Bush Family Enterprises. Little Shrub has been playing with the wrong crowd again and now he has these ruffians playing on the family grounds and busting of their financial and image-related furniture. Can’t have that.
They will scoot the evildoer minions out and bring in the “approved” crowd and push “do over” for the Bush legacy. All nice and proper. But the “invade syria and Iran” crowd and going to make an awful lot of noise before the party totally stops.
Posted by: Sammy | Oct 23 2005 3:26 utc | 8
wayne madsen’s predicting that bush senior was in on his son’s nomination last night for mcnulty to replace flanigan in order to get rid of the crazies and that
The bottom line is that for his remaining three years in office, George W. Bush will no longer be taking orders from a “higher father,” but from his own father and his closest associates: Scowcroft, James Baker, and others.
Posted by: b real | Oct 23 2005 5:34 utc | 9
Holbrook puts the buck to where it belongs:
‘The System Worked’
Recommending George Packer’s brilliant new book on Iraq, Wilkerson said that he “could have given George a hell of a lot more specifics” on how “the Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal flummoxed the system,” supported by people such as Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith (“Seldom in my life have I met a dumber man.”). He added that Rumsfeld had been “given carte blanche to tell the State Department to go screw itself in a closet somewhere.”
Asking himself “Who’s causing this?” Wilkerson offered a strange answer: “The national security adviser . . . who made a calculated decision to build her intimacy with the president” rather than do her job. He predicted that if there were a major terrorist attack on a U.S. city, “you are going to see the ineptitude of this government.”
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I am certainly not going to defend Cheney or Rumsfeld. They made mistakes of historic proportions in Iraq and elsewhere, and the damage done to America’s world role in the past four years will, I believe, take a decade to undo. But for Wilkerson to describe major policy mistakes as the result of a process that was dysfunctional — even though it was — is inaccurate. In the end, presidents get the advice they deserve, from the advisers they pick. Those advisers never agree completely, nor should they. Bush was surely aware that there were two views in his administration on most critical issues, but the buck stopped on his desk. Apparently, Cheney’s voice was often the most influential, but Bush made the final calls. As Les Gelb wrote about Vietnam with deliberate irony, “the system worked,” but it produced the wrong outcome.